Tennis

Associated Press Apr 6, 2024, 07:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Defending champion Frances Tiafoe and top-seeded Ben Shelton will play for the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship title after winning semifinal matches on Saturday. Tiafoe, ranked 21st, defeated Luciano Darderi 6-2, 7-6 (2) and looks to become the event’s first repeat champion

Associated Press Apr 6, 2024, 06:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, S.C. — Miami Open champion Danielle Collins won her 12th straight match and will play for a second straight title, defeating Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-3 in the Charleston Open semifinals on Saturday. Collins will go for lucky No. 13 in Sunday’s final against

Associated Press Apr 6, 2024, 12:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Top-seeded Ben Shelton beat Brandon Nakashima 7-5, 7-6 (9) on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship. “Definitely not an easy matchup today with the way Brandon was serving and playing,” Shelton said. “He made things

Associated Press Apr 5, 2024, 06:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, S.C. — Top-seeded Jessica Pegula saved four match points in a third-set tiebreaker and beat Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7) Friday to reach the Charleston Open semifinals. Pegula squandered four match points of her own, up 5-4 in the final set against

Shwetha Surendran, ESPNApr 5, 2024, 07:22 AM ET Close Shwetha Surendran is writer in ESPN’s investigative and enterprise unit. Open Extended Reactions The 25-year sentence for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried last week ended one criminal chapter in the implosion of one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges. But several civil lawsuits — including three that

Associated Press Apr 4, 2024, 06:42 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, S.C. — Miami Open champion Danielle Collins continued an amazing run by winning two matches Thursday, beating Ons Jabeur and Sloane Stephens to reach the quarterfinals of the rain-delayed Charleston Open. Collins, who has said this will be her final season on tour,

ESPN News Services Apr 4, 2024, 01:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Rafael Nadal withdrew from the upcoming Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday, saying his body is not yet ready for competition. Nadal, who has said he expects to retire after the 2024 season, returned to competition in Brisbane in January after almost a year

Associated Press Apr 4, 2024, 10:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — An Italian tennis official has been suspended for 5½ years for multiple corruption breaches, the sport’s integrity agency said Thursday. Manuel Guion, a national-level official who has also served as a line judge at ATP challenger level, admitted to five breaches of

Associated Press Apr 4, 2024, 08:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal announced Thursday by the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million, a 70% increase from 2023. The event

Associated Press Apr 4, 2024, 12:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Top-seeded Ben Shelton advanced to his first clay court quarterfinal on the ATP tour with a win over Zizou Bergs on Wednesday night in the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship. Shelton won 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to advance to face fellow American Brandon

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 08:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, S.C. — Daria Kasatkina rallied after getting shut out in the second set for a 6-3, 0-6, 6-1 victory over Ashlyn Krueger at the rain-delayed Charleston Open on Wednesday night. Kasatkina, seeded fourth, does not play the season’s opening clay-court tournament often —

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 01:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — The men’s ATP tour will try to shake up doubles tennis by trialing changes including a 15-second serve clock and reserving slots for teams to enter tournaments using their singles rankings. The ATP announced on Wednesday that the new format will be

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 12:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — American Aleksandar Kovacevic outlasted Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis on Tuesday night to reach the second round of the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship, winning 7-6 (3), 6-7 (2), 6-4 in a match that lasted 3 hours, 16 minutes. “Go for it. That’s the

Associated Press Apr 2, 2024, 04:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, S.C. — Top-seeded Jessica Pegula rallied from a set down and beat fellow American Amanda Anisimova 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) in a second-round match at the Charleston Open on Tuesday night. Pegula had seven aces in the match and won despite capitalizing on

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Apr 2, 2024, 07:21 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In January, Danielle Collins announced that 2024 would be her final season on tour following a second-round loss at the Australian Open. On Saturday, less than three months later, she won the biggest title of her career. Playing in her home state of

Associated Press Apr 2, 2024, 12:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Rinky Hijikata defeated fifth-seed Christopher Eubanks in his first career clay-court match at an ATP Tour event in the first round of the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship on Monday night. Hijikata won 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) in

Associated Press Mar 31, 2024, 05:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Jannik Sinner‘s strong 2024 continued as he won the Miami Open with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over 11th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov on Sunday. In a flawless display on a 79-degree afternoon, Sinner, the reigning Australian Open champion, moved to 22-1 on

Associated Press Mar 30, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Danielle Collins had the perfect send-off at her final Miami Open, beating Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday to capture the title in her home state before an adoring crowd that included Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova. The 30-year-old Collins