9:38 AM ET Associated Press The Davis Cup men’s tennis competition has been canceled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and will pick up again in 2021. Matches were scheduled for this September and the Davis Cup finals were set for November in Madrid. Now the World Group I and World Group II preliminary
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Jun 26, 2020 Associated Press This year’s Fed Cup finals have been rescheduled for 2021 because of “challenges” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The International Tennis Federation said the women’s team competition will take place April 13-18 in Budapest, Hungary. The 2020 event was originally scheduled for April but was postponed because of the pandemic.
7:44 AM ET Associated Press Tennis great Goran Ivanisevic says he has tested positive for the coronavirus. The former Wimbledon champion coaches top-ranked Novak Djokovic and was at the recent Adria Tour exhibition series in Serbia and Croatia. Djokovic and three other players have also tested positive for the virus after playing in the events.
2:44 PM ET Associated Press Venus Williams has signed up to play World TeamTennis for the 15th time, the league announced Thursday. She will be a member of the Washington Kastles, one of nine teams that will gather at a resort in West Virginia for a three-week season starting July 12. Matches normally are played
6:57 AM ET World no. 3 Dominic Thiem is “extremely sorry” for the way players conducted themselves at Novak Djokovic‘s Adria Tour exhibition event after which four players tested positive for coronavirus, the Austrian said on Thursday. Djokovic, Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki tested positive after playing in the charity tournament in Serbia
4:38 PM ET Associated Press The University of Northern Colorado will discontinue the men’s and women’s tennis programs as part of a cost-saving effort caused by budget shortfalls created by the coronavirus pandemic. The school, located in Greeley, Colorado, will now sponsor 17 intercollegiate athletic programs, including nine women’s sports. Northern Colorado said it will
10:16 AM ET Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia — Novak Djokovic‘s parents defended their son on Wednesday and blamed another tennis player for spreading the coronavirus at a series of exhibition matches hosted by the top-ranked player. Djokovic and his wife tested positive for the virus on Tuesday. The 17-time Grand Slam champion then apologized online
2:38 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The U.S. Tennis Association changed its plans and now will include wheelchair competition at this year’s scaled-down US Open after athletes complained about the original decision to drop their event. The USTA announced Wednesday that wheelchair tennis will be played at Flushing Meadows from Sept. 10-13, the
3:48 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Tennis players in Australia will have a chance to compete for prize money for the first time since March in a UTR pro series starting this weekend in Sydney and continuing in city hubs across the country from next week. Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty is unlikely to compete,
7:26 PM ET Top-ranked Novak Djokovic has earned many accolades in an illustrious career that has produced 17 Grand Slam singles titles. He has been praised as a champion, a Serbian national treasure, an ambassador for the game, a philanthropist and a spiritual seeker. Djokovic now will also be known as a cautionary tale following
8:07 AM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking part in a tennis exhibition series he organized in Serbia and Croatia. The top-ranked Serb is the fourth player to test positive for the virus after first playing in Belgrade and then again last weekend in Zadar, Croatia. His
5:36 AM ET World No.1 Novak Djokovic should put his hand up and accept responsibility after three players tested positive for coronavirus while participating in his Adria Tour exhibition tournament, Briton Dan Evans said on Monday. Grigor Dimitrov, a three-time Grand Slam semifinalist from Bulgaria, announced on Sunday he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
12:39 PM ET Associated Press The ATP men’s tennis tour says it is continuing to “plan and adjust” its precautions and protocols related to the coronavirus pandemic with an eye to its planned Aug. 14 resumption of competition. The tour issued a statement Monday following word that two top-35 players tested positive for COVID-19 after
11:01 AM ET ESPN News Services Novak Djokovic will be tested for the coronavirus, his media team said Monday, after two tennis players ranked among the top 40 in the world have tested positive for COVID-19 after participating in the Serbian star’s charity tennis exhibition series. Additionally, five players at Serbia’s biggest soccer club have
6:52 AM ET Australian Nick Kyrgios has labelled the decision to go ahead with the Adria Tour as “boneheaded” after Borna Coric became the second tennis player to confirm that he tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. The exhibition event in Croatia, organised by world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, was cancelled on Sunday after
3:14 PM ET Associated Press Grigor Dimitrov said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19, leading to the cancellation of an exhibition event in Croatia where top-ranked Novak Djokovic was scheduled to play. Dimitrov, ranked No. 19 and a three-time Grand Slam semifinalist, is the highest-profile current player to say he has the virus and
3:57 PM ET Associated Press There might be wheelchair tennis competition at the 2020 US Open, after all. The U.S. Tennis Association acknowledged Friday it should have consulted wheelchair athletes before announcing their events at Flushing Meadows were being canceled — and now is willing to change its stance. USTA spokesman Chris Widmaier said in
11:32 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Tennis authorities suspended Venezuelan referee Armando Belardi for two years and six months on Friday for not reporting approaches to him to alter match scores. Belardi was approached twice in 2018 by unidentified parties, the Tennis Integrity Unit said. The investigation found that Belardi did not alter the