Tennis

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Nov 14, 2023, 09:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions For the first time in the event’s history, Canada is the Billie Jean King Cup champion. Led by the red-hot Leylah Fernandez and the previously unheralded 18-year-old Marina Stakusic, the Canadians claimed the title on Sunday with a 2-0 victory over Italy. Fernandez,

Associated Press Nov 14, 2023, 10:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TURIN, Italy — Stefanos Tsitsipas retired with an injury after just three games of his second match at the ATP Finals on Tuesday, handing Holger Rune the victory. Tsitsipas, the 2019 champion, was trailing 2-1 in the opening set when he had a lengthy

Associated Press Nov 13, 2023, 12:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TURIN, Italy — Considering all that he has accomplished over the past two years — winning two Grand Slam titles and finishing last season as No. 1 — Carlos Alcaraz no doubt belongs among the world’s elite. Still, this couldn’t have been the debut

Nov 13, 2023, 02:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has pulled out of a December exhibition match at the Macau Tennis Masters as she continues to recover from wrist and ankle surgery, her management company IMG said on Monday. Raducanu was poised to return to action after her May

Associated Press Nov 12, 2023, 06:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TURIN, Italy — Novak Djokovic has secured the year-end No. 1 ranking for a record-extending eighth time. Djokovic needed only one match win at the ATP Finals to be sure of keeping the top spot and the 24-time Grand Slam champion did it in

ESPN News Services Nov 12, 2023, 02:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Leylah Fernandez and Marina Stakusic won their singles matches as Canada beat Italy 2-0 to claim its first-ever Billie Jean King Cup on Sunday. Stakusic, ranked 258th in the world, put Canada ahead by defeating No. 43 Martina Trevisan 7-5, 6-3 for the

Associated Press Nov 11, 2023, 06:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SEVILLE, Spain — Leylah Fernandez led Canada into the Billie Jean King Cup final after beating Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova and then helping to secure a 2-1 win over the Czech Republic in a decisive doubles match on Saturday. Fernandez beat Vondrousova 6-2, 2-6,

Associated Press Nov 11, 2023, 05:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions METZ, France — Ugo Humbert claimed his first ATP tour title since 2021 by beating Alexander Shevchenko 6-3, 6-3 on Saturday in the final of the Moselle Open. Humbert was born in the French city of Metz which hosted the indoor tournament. He will

Associated Press Nov 10, 2023, 03:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SEVILLE, Spain — Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova sent the Czech Republic into the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup by beating American duo Danielle Collins and Taylor Townsend 6-3, 7-5 in their decisive doubles match Friday. Siniakova and Krejcikova completed a 2-1

Associated Press Nov 10, 2023, 12:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Seven Belgian tennis players have been suspended from the sport as part of a match-fixing investigation, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday. The ITIA said the players admitted to corruption breaches and that the sanctions “are linked to a recently concluded

Associated Press Nov 9, 2023, 08:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BRISBANE, Australia — Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka will make her comeback to tennis at the Brisbane International warmup tournament ahead of the Australian Open. Tournament officials on Friday confirmed Osaka will contest the Dec. 31-Jan. 7 event to start her 2024

Associated Press Nov 9, 2023, 05:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SEVILLE, Spain — The United States began its campaign in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals with a win over defending champion Switzerland on Thursday, setting up a decisive tie against the Czech Republic for a spot in the semifinals. Danielle Collins and Sofia

Associated Press Nov 9, 2023, 11:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions TURIN, Italy — Defending champion Novak Djokovic has been placed in a group with home favorite Jannik Sinner for the ATP Finals in Turin, where he needs to win just one match to end the year as world No. 1. The draw for the

Associated Press Nov 8, 2023, 08:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SEVILLE, Spain — Teenager Marina Stakusic got the biggest win of her career to help Canada defeat host Spain 3-0 in Group C of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Wednesday. The 18-year-old Stakusic, ranked No. 258 in the world, defeated No. 65

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Nov 8, 2023, 04:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Professional Tennis Players Association has asked the WTA to co-commission an independent, third-party investigation into the “numerous glaring breakdowns” that occurred at the recently concluded WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico. The PTPA extended its invitation in a statement Wednesday, two days after

Nov 8, 2023, 08:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Men’s tennis tournaments in Dallas, Munich and Doha, Qatar, will be upgraded from ATP 250 to ATP 500 events as part of reforms to strengthen the 2025 calendar, the ATP announced Wednesday. The upgrades, part of the ATP’s One Vision strategy, will see improvements

Associated Press Nov 7, 2023, 06:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions SEVILLE, Spain — The Czech Republic beat defending champion Switzerland on the first day of the group stage at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Tuesday. Linda Noskova defeated Celine Naef 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 in the first singles match, and Marie Bouzkova

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Nov 7, 2023, 09:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Iga Swiatek won the weather-delayed WTA Finals on Monday following a statement 6-1, 6-0 victory over Jessica Pegula in less than an hour. With the title — her first at the event — Swiatek reclaims the world No. 1 ranking from Aryna Sabalenka