Tennis

Associated Press Jun 21, 2023, 02:30 PM ET GAIBA, Italy — Yanina Wickmayer will face top-seeded Tatjana Maria in the quarterfinals of the Veneto Open after rallying to beat former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 3-6, 6-4, 7-5 on Wednesday. Kenin appeared headed for victory when she raced to a 4-2 advantage in the third

Associated Press Jun 21, 2023, 02:09 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, England — A finalist at the Birmingham Classic last year, Zhang Shuai of China was eliminated in the first round of the grass-court tournament Wednesday as one of four seeded players to go out. The seventh-seeded Zhang was beaten 6-4, 6-3 by 150th-ranked Emina Bektas of

Associated Press Jun 21, 2023, 01:26 PM ET HALLE, Germany — Daniil Medvedev continued building momentum after recent setbacks as he moved into the quarterfinals of the Halle Open on Wednesday, beating Laslo Djere 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3 at the grass-court tournament. Medvedev could have wrapped up the second-round match in straight sets when he

Tom Hamilton, Senior WriterJun 21, 2023, 07:18 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Wimbledon will use AI-generated commentary for the first time at this year’s championship. The All England Club will

Associated Press Jun 20, 2023, 04:47 PM ET BIRMINGHAM, England — Britain’s Katie Boulter couldn’t bring along her title-winning form to the Birmingham Classic. Two days after winning her first WTA title at the Nottingham Open, Boulter lost in the first round of another grass-court event on home soil, falling 7-5, 7-5 to Lin Zhu

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jun 20, 2023, 09:40 AM ET It’s been a good nine months for Frances Tiafoe. Since reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open in September, the 25-year-old made a finals appearance at the Japan Open, led the American squad to a United Cup victory, reached the semifinals at Indian

Jun 20, 2023, 07:03 AM ET Estonian Anett Kontaveit, who reached a career high of number two in the world last year, said she is retiring at the age of 27 due to a degenerative back injury and will play her final tournament at Wimbledon next month. Kontaveit cut her 2022 season short in October

Associated Press Jun 19, 2023, 08:04 PM ET NEW YORK — Martina Navratilova says she is clear of cancer. The tennis Hall of Famer announced the news Monday on Twitter after what she said was a full day of tests at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Editor’s Picks 2 Related “I got the all clear!

ESPN News Services Jun 19, 2023, 04:07 PM ET GAIBA, Italy — Former Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin defeated Tamara Zidansek 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the Veneto Open on Monday. Kenin raced to a 5-0 advantage in the first set, then lost four straight games before closing it out and running away

Jun 19, 2023, 07:31 AM ET Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the tournament in Halle, Germany, due to an ongoing problem with his knee, the ATP Tour said Monday, as the Australian’s hopes of participating in the grass-court Grand Slam took a blow. Kyrgios, 28, had surgery on a left knee injury

Associated Press Jun 18, 2023, 12:54 PM ET STUTTGART, Germany — There will be two American men’s tennis players ranked in the top 10 for the first time in more than a decade after Frances Tiafoe beat Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday to win the Stuttgart Open for his first grass-court title. Tiafoe won 4-6, 7-6

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 12:33 PM ET DEN BOSCH, Netherlands — Ekaterina Alexandrova will defend her Libema Open title against fellow Russian and top seed Veronika Kudermetova after both reached the final on Saturday without dropping a set all week. The No. 4-seeded Alexandrova defeated No. 7 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-1, 7-6 (1)

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 12:58 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — The first all-British final on the WTA Tour in 46 years will play out at the Nottingham Open. Katie Boulter beat Heather Watson 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday in the first all-British semifinal on tour in 48 years, and Jodie Burrage piled on more history

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 11:47 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — Frances Tiafoe will contest his first grass-court final after the American player outlasted Marton Fucsovics in a marathon Stuttgart Open tiebreak Saturday. Tiafoe won their semifinal 6-3, 7-6 (11) after saving six set points in the tiebreak. He seized his chance at 11-10 down

Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 03:34 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — Three British players reached the semifinals of the grass-court Nottingham Open on Friday in a boost to the nation that will host Wimbledon in a couple of weeks. Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage and Heather Watson – all placed outside the top 100 in the

Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 11:20 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — There won’t be an all-American semifinal at the Stuttgart Open after Taylor Fritz was upset 6-4, 7-5 by qualifier Marton Fucsovics in the quarterfinals Friday, but Frances Tiafoe won his match to reach the last four. Fritz, the top-ranked American men’s player at No.

Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 08:27 AM ET LONDON — Romanian tennis player Petru-Alexandru Luncanu has been banned for five years and fined $40,000 in a match-fixing case, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday. Five out of seven match-fixing charges brought by the ITIA against Luncanu were upheld at an anti-corruption hearing, the agency

ESPN News Services Jun 16, 2023, 06:23 AM ET Andy Murray says he is in his best shape since hip surgery as the former No. 1 prepares for a run at Wimbledon next month. The 36-year-old three-time Grand Slam champion, who has resurrected his career after hip resurfacing surgery in 2019, won the second-tier Aix-en-Provence