Tennis

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 25, 2024, 07:48 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions The Big Three of men’s tennis — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic — owned the sport for most of the 2000s. No one had won more than 14 men’s Grand Slam

Aug 25, 2024, 06:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions American McCartney Kessler stunned No. 1 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil on Saturday, shaking off a brutal first set for a 1-6, 6-1, 7-5 victory in the final of Tennis in the Land in Cleveland. It was Kessler’s first career WTA Tour title. Kessler thrived

Associated Press Aug 25, 2024, 12:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTERREY, Mexico — Sixth-seeded Linda Noskova won the Monterrey Open on Saturday night for her first WTA Tour title, beating Lulu Sun 7-6 (6), 6-4 at Sonoma Club. Noskova avenged a straight-sets loss to Sun last week in the first round of the Cincinnati

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 07:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic gets why some tennis players question whether there’s a double-standard in the sport after Jannik Sinner was not suspended despite twice testing positive for steroids, and said Saturday he agrees that there is “a lack of consistency.” Sinner tested

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Aug 24, 2024, 10:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After an entertaining season full of dominant performances, skyrocketing superstars and an abnormal amount of surface changes, we’ve finally made it to the last Grand Slam tournament of the year. And trust us when we say: The 2024 US Open could be one

Associated Press Aug 24, 2024, 12:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTERREY, Mexico — Sixth-seeded Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic beat second-seeded Emma Navarro of the United States 7-6 (7), 7-5 on Friday night to reach the Monterrey Open final. The 19-year-old Noskova will face Lulu Sun of New Zealand on Saturday, with both

Aug 23, 2024, 12:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The final major championship of the 2024 season — the US Open — starts on Aug. 26, with Coco Gauff and Novak Djokovic looking to defend their 2023 titles. Djokovic and Qinwen Zheng come in having won gold medals at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, while

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Aug 23, 2024, 10:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions American tennis player Shelby Rogers, a two-time major quarterfinalist, announced she will be retiring from the sport following the upcoming US Open. In a post on social media on Friday, Rogers, 31, said she would “play this sport forever” if she were healthy

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 10:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTERREY, Mexico — Third-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia beat seventh-seeded Yue Yuan of China 7-5, 7-6 (3) on Thursday night to reach the Monterrey Open semifinals. Alexandrova will face Lulu Sun of New Zealand, a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Erika Andreeva of Russia in

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 06:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CLEVELAND — Top-seeded Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil beat Clara Burel of France 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the semifinals in Tennis in the Land. Haddad Maia, ranked No. 23 in the world, has not lost a set in the first three rounds

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 12:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Defending champion Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz wound up on opposite sides of the US Open bracket in Thursday’s draw, meaning they could meet in another big final after Wimbledon and the Paris Olympics. For that to happen, the No. 3-seeded

Associated Press Aug 22, 2024, 01:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTERREY, Mexico — Third-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia beat local favorite Renata Zarazua 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Monterrey Open. Alexandrova advanced to face seventh-seeded Yue Yuan of China, a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Petra Martic in the WTA

Aug 21, 2024, 12:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova has undergone shoulder surgery, the 25-year-old said on Wednesday, days after she withdrew from this month’s US Open due to injury. Vondrousova, who reached the US Open quarterfinals last year, wrote on Instagram that she had been struggling with shoulder pain

Associated Press Aug 21, 2024, 06:07 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTERREY, Mexico — Top-seeded Danielle Collins is out of the WTA 500 event in Monterrey, beaten 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 by Erika Andreeva in a match that finished about 1 a.m. Wednesday at the hardcourt tournament in Mexico. Andreeva beat a top 20 player for

ESPN News Services Aug 20, 2024, 10:17 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner tested positive twice for a banned anabolic steroid in March and was stripped of prize money and points earned at a tournament in Indian Wells, California, but he will not be suspended because an independent tribunal said it

Associated Press Aug 20, 2024, 08:37 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — A year after becoming a Grand Slam champion, Coco Gauff is teaming up with the “Breakfast of Champions.” As she gets set to defend her US Open title, Gauff is going to be on the cover of a limited-edition box of

ESPN News Services Aug 19, 2024, 05:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MASON, Ohio — Aryna Sabalenka won her first title since the Australian Open in January, beating Jessica Pegula 6-3, 7-5 in the Cincinnati Open on Monday. Sabalenka, who moved up a spot to No. 2 in the rankings before the match, didn’t lose

Associated Press Aug 19, 2024, 06:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NCAA champion Alexa Noel‘s debut as a professional tennis player arrives next week at the U.S. Open – a decade after she went to Flushing Meadows with a racket in hand for the first time. When she was about 11, the now-21-year-old American recalled,