Tennis

Mar 5, 2023 ESPN News Services SANTIAGO, Chile — Home crowd favorite Nicolas Jarry beat Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 6-2 to clinch the Chile Open final on Sunday, his first title at the ATP level since 2019. The 27-year-old Chilean served a doping suspension in 2020 and his ranking tumbled. His

5:56 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Marta Kostyuk won her first career WTA title at age 20 by beating Varvara Gracheva 6-3, 7-5 in the ATX Open final on Sunday, then dedicated the victory to her home country of Ukraine. The eighth-seeded Kostyuk and the unseeded Gracheva, a 22-year-old Russian, did not meet

1:24 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Alex de Minaur rallied to win the biggest title of his career, beating Tommy Paul 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 on Saturday night in the final of the Mexican Open. The 24-year-old Australian won his seventh career title and first at the ATP 500 level. He won his previous

10:27 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Marta Kostyuk and Varvara Gracheva each reached her first WTA final by beating an American at the ATX Open on Saturday. The eighth-seeded Kostyuk took five of the last six games to eliminate 2022 Australian Open runner-up Danielle Collins 6-4, 6-3 in the day’s first semifinal. Gracheva

12:18 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Daniil Medvedev won this 18th tour-level title and third in a row by beating Andrey Rublev 6-2, 6-2 in an all-Russian final at the Dubai Championships on Saturday. The former No. 1 extended his winning streak to 14 matches in a run that started on

1:14 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Tommy Paul defeated fellow American and longtime rival Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (2) in a three-hour marathon match Friday night and secured a spot in the Mexican Open final. The pair of 25-year-olds have squared off since their teenage years. The Americans faced each other

12:17 AM ET Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile — Three of the four semifinalists at the Chile Open are South American players. Spain’s Jaume Munar will be the only exception in the clay court tournament after beating Brazil’s Thiago Monteiro on Friday 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. Munar’s next rival will be home-crowd favorite Nicolas Jarry, who beat

12:54 PM ET Associated Press Daniil Medvedev ended Novak Djokovic‘s 20-match winning streak by beating the world’s top-ranked player 6-4, 6-4 on Friday to reach the final at the Dubai Championships. Third-seeded Medvedev will face defending champion Andrey Rublev in an all-Russian final that could have political overtones after Rublev reiterated his call for peace.

12:24 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Taylor Fritz defeated fellow American Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday night to advance to the semifinal round of the Mexican Open. The fifth-ranked Fritz has a six-match winning streak against Tiafoe. He advanced to face another American, Tommy Paul, in one of the semifinals. It’ll be

12:11 AM ET Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile — Second-seeded Francisco Cerundolo was eliminated from the Chile Open following a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 loss to fellow Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry on Thursday. Etcheverry advanced to a quarterfinal match against Dusan Lajovic, who earlier overcame Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (2). Laslo Djere topped Riccardo Bonadio

1:56 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic beat Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday and will face former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals at the Dubai Championships. The five-time Dubai champion’s 20th straight victory set the stage for a last-four match against Medvedev, who defeated Borna Coric

11:47 PM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Fourth-ranked Casper Ruud lost to qualifier Taro Daniel 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (5) in a round-of-16 match at the Mexico Open on Wednesday. For Daniel, the victory was his first against a top-10 player and propelled him into the quarterfinals. The 30-year-old Daniel, ranked 125 in the ATP,

8:06 PM ET Associated Press Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print SANTIAGO, Chile — Jaume Munar of Spain upset top-seeded Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals at the clay-court Chile Open on Wednesday. Musetti, an Italian who is ranked No. 18, slipped to 1-3 on his stops in South America this

1:11 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic eased into the quarterfinals at the Dubai Championships by beating Tallon Griekspoor 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday. Djokovic extended his winning streak to 19 matches in tidy fashion a day after being pushed to a third-set tiebreaker by 130th-ranked Tomas Machac. “Yesterday, I

10:15 PM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Matteo Berrettini won the seven games he played on Tuesday before Alex Molcan retired with a wrist injury in the second round of the Mexican Open. The 26-year-old Italian, playing his first match since he lost to Andy Murray in the first round of the Australian Open

11:16 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Top-seeded Magda Linette was eliminated from the ATX Open in the first round with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 loss to 88th-ranked Varvara Gracheva on Tuesday. Linette, ranked a career-high 21st this week, has lost three of her past five matches. That follows a five-match winning streak that

12:52 PM ET ESPN News Services Rafael Nadal pulled out of upcoming hard-court tournaments in Indian Wells, California, and Miami because of the left hip flexor injury that has sidelined him since the Australian Open. The 22-time Grand Slam champion announced Tuesday on Twitter that he would not be competing in the two U.S. events.

10:55 PM ET Associated Press Andrey Rublev began his Dubai Championships title defense by spoiling Filip Krajinovic‘s birthday when he won 7-5, 6-2 on Monday. Krajinovic, who turned 31, raced 5-2 ahead. The second-seeded Rublev then reeled off 11 of the next 13 games. Rublev next faces Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who beat Malek Jaziri in