11:01 AM ET Associated Press Daniil Medvedev officially moved up to No. 1 in the ATP rankings on Monday, overtaking Novak Djokovic to become the 27th man to hold the top spot since computerized rankings began in 1973. Medvedev, a 26-year-old from Russia who won the 2021 US Open and was the runner-up at this
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7:32 PM ET Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile — Spain’s Pedro Martinez won the Chile Open clay-court tournament on Sunday with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Argentina’s Sebastian Baez, Martinez’s first professional title. Martinez lost last year’s Kitzbuhel Open in Austria in another clay-court tournament. Baez was also attempting to win his first professional title.
1:07 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Rafael Nadal said earlier in the week that he wasn’t aware of his career statistics. Now, he might want to have a look at them. The 35-year-old Spaniard defeated Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to win the Mexican Open and extend his career-best start for a
3:31 PM ET UKRAINIAN PRO TENNIS player Dayana Yastremska wrapped her arms around her father, tears running down her cheeks. She had to let go. A small boat was waiting to whisk her and her 15-year-old sister, Ivanna, away. Her father had driven them from their home in Odessa, Ukraine, some 150 miles south to
1:45 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Andrey Rublev won his second singles title in less than a week — and 10th overall — when he beat Czech qualifier Jiri Vesely 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday. The seventh-ranked Russian won the Open 13 tournament last Sunday
11:16 PM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Cameron Norrie extended his hot streak in February by upsetting Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to qualify for the Mexican Open final where he´ll play either Rafael Nadal or Daniil Medvedev. After losing all four of his matches in January, Norrie is 10-1 in February and
11:35 AM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev wrote “No War Please” on a TV camera moments after advancing to the final at the Dubai Championships on Friday. The seventh-ranked Rublev had just beaten Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) in their semifinal match before writing his
7:55 PM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — As much as Daniil Medvedev cared about taking over the No. 1 ranking in men’s tennis, he knew there were more serious matters happening Thursday involving his home nation of Russia. A loss by Novak Djokovic at the Dubai Championships meant that the Serbian player would move
7:55 PM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — A few hours after clinching the top spot in the ATP rankings, top-seeded Daniil Medvedev eased into the Mexican Open semifinals on Thursday with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Yoshihito Nishioka. Medvedev moved to No. 1 in the rankings earlier in the day after Novak Djokovic lost
4:55 PM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Alexander Zverev was fined $40,000 by the men’s professional tennis tour and will forfeit more than $30,000 in prize money and all rankings points from the Mexican Open after hitting the chair umpire’s stand with his racket following a loss in doubles. In
12:30 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Novak Djokovic will fall from No. 1 in the ATP rankings and be replaced by Daniil Medvedev after losing 6-4, 7-6 (4) to Czech qualifier Jiri Vesely in the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championships on Thursday. Djokovic’s latest stay in the top spot began on
8:14 AM ET Alexander Zverev deserved to be expelled from the ATP 500 tournament in Acapulco for his expletive-filled tantrum after a doubles defeat, Rafa Nadal said on Thursday. Upset over a line call earlier during Wednesday’s match, world No.3 Zverev shouted expletives and smashed his racket repeatedly against the umpire’s chair, coming perilously close
4:06 AM ET Nick Kyrgios has revealed his battle with serious depression and substance abuse in a raw social media post about mental health. The Australian tennis entertainer has opened up about one of the “darkest periods” in his life around the time of the 2019 Australian Open. The 26-year-old said he was struggling so
1:13 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic won his second match — and first tiebreaker — of the year when he beat Karen Khachanov 6-3, 7-6 (2) on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championships. Djokovic couldn’t defend his Australian Open title last month because he
12:40 PM ET Andy Murray has said the difference in prize money at the Dubai Championships is a “big step backwards,” with the men’s singles winner set to receive five times more the amount as compared to the women’s champion. Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko took home $104,180 after winning the women’s WTA 500 event by beating
3:41 AM ET US Open champion Emma Raducanu was forced to retire with a left hip injury in the deciding set of her opening match against Australia’s Daria Saville on Tuesday in the WTA 250 tournament in Guadalajara, Mexico. The 19-year-old from south London was playing her first match since last month’s painful exit in
3:55 PM ET ESPN News Services DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Second-seeded Andrey Rublev beat Daniel Evans 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Dubai Championships on Tuesday, just two days after winning his ninth tour title. The Russian, who defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final at the Open 13 tennis tournament in Marseille,
7:23 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Stefan Kozlov overcame leg cramps and upset Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (8), 5-7, 6-2 to move into a second-round match against Rafael Nadal at the Mexican Open. The No. 130-ranked Kozlov got a spot in main draw as lucky loser after Maxime Cressy withdrew because of injury. Kozlov