Tennis

12:58 AM ET Associated Press DALLAS — John Isner won a pair of tiebreakers in a match without any service breaks, advancing to the second round of his hometown Dallas Open with a straight-sets victory over Chun-Hsin Tseng on Tuesday night. The fifth-seeded American served 22 aces in a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (1) victory that

5:15 AM ET Sid Ventura Fresh off her first Grand Slam qualifiers experience as a professional, rising Filipino tennis star Alex Eala wants to focus on playing in the main draw of the remaining Grand Slams this year — starting with the French Open in June. Eala, 17, was given a spot in the Australian

12:01 AM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Wild-card entry Jack Sock opened with a 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 victory over Ilya Ivashka at the Dallas Open on Monday night, setting up a second-round meeting with top-seeded fellow American Taylor Fritz. Sock broke Ivashka’s serve in the final game to win the match. Ivashka fell behind

11:45 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Brazilian tennis player Gilbert Klier Junior, a bronze medalist at the 2018 Youth Olympics, has been banned for 12 months in a doping case, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Monday. The ITIA said it accepts that Klier Junior had not deliberately doped and that the banned substance

4:32 PM ET Associated Press Borna Coric beat 2020 U.S. Open champion Dominic Thiem 7-6 (3), 6-2 on Sunday to send Croatia into the group stage of the Davis Cup with a victory over Austria. Coric helped the Croatians win their second Davis Cup title in 2018, but he was sidelined when they lost in

2:14 PM ET Associated Press HUA HIN, Thailand — Lin Zhu of China won her maiden career title after beating Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Thailand Open on Sunday. In a match lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes, both players exchanged nail-biting baseline rallies before Zhu finally found a

1:44 PM ET Associated Press Unseeded American Alycia Parks secured a stunning 7-6 (7), 7-5 upset win over WTA Finals champion Caroline Garcia in the Open Métropole de Lyon final to clinch her first career title on Sunday. “I think France has a special part in my heart right now,” Parks said. “I’ll be back

9:56 PM ET The Indian Davis Cup team was relegated to the World Group II for the first time since the new format was launched in 2019 after losing the playoff tie 2-3 to Denmark on Saturday. Denmark were single-handedly carried by Holger Rune as the world number nine won three matches for the hosts.

2:06 PM ET Associated Press The United States swept its way into the group stage of the Davis Cup Finals on Saturday, getting the winning point in a 4-0 victory over Uzbekistan from the doubles team of Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek. They beat Sergey Fomin and Sanjar Fayziev 6-2, 6-4, after Tommy Paul and

10:16 PM ET Sumit Nagal brought India back in the Davis Cup World Group playoff tie against Denmark, winning the second singles after Yuki Bhambri was outplayed in the opening match on Friday. It was always a tall task for Bhambri to counter world number nine Holger Rune and there was no surprise as Denmark’s

8:31 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Australian Open semifinalist Tommy Paul and Mackenzie McDonald, who beat Rafael Nadal at Melbourne Park, gave the United States a 2-0 lead over host Uzbekistan in Davis Cup qualifying Friday. Paul beat Khumoyun Sultanov 6-1, 7-6 (6) after McDonald’s Davis Cup debut produced a 6-4, 6-1 victory over

12:27 PM ET Associated Press Former top-20 tennis player and U.S. Olympian Varvara Lepchenko‘s doping suspension for use of a banned stimulant was reduced from four years to 21 months as part of an agreement with the International Tennis Federation after she appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The settlement agreement was signed

11:51 PM ET Associated Press Nick Kyrgios had suffered severe depression, suicidal ideation and insomnia in the past, a psychologist told a court on Friday when the Australian tennis star pleaded guilty to pushing a former girlfriend to the ground two years ago. The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up pleaded guilty in the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates

5:59 PM ET Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia — Tennis star Nick Kyrgios was due to appear in an Australian court Friday to apply to have an assault charge stemming from events two years ago dismissed on mental health grounds. His lawyer Michael Kukulies-Smith appeared in a court in Kyrgios’ hometown of Canberra in October and

11:07 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said Novak Djokovic played at the Grand Slam event with a muscle tear of 3 centimeters — a little more than an inch — in his left hamstring along the way to winning the championship. “He gets a bad rap, but

8:09 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — German tennis player Alexander Zverev will not face disciplinary action after an investigation into domestic abuse allegations against him found “insufficient evidence” to substantiate the claims, the men’s professional tour said Tuesday. The ATP had commissioned the investigation in October 2021 after Zverev’s former girlfriend, Olya Sharypova, accused

7:44 AM ET Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic‘s Australian Open championship returned him to a rather familiar spot on Monday: No. 1 in the ATP rankings. His four-place rise from No. 5 to replace Carlos Alcaraz at No. 1 is the largest jump to the top spot in the 50-year history of the

8:03 AM ET The Australian Open basically serves two primary purposes: Entertain us and set the table for the rest of the tennis season. Following a delightful two-week run that saw Aryna Sabalenka‘s first Slam title, plus some shocking mid-tournament plot twists, early-tournament Andy Murray heroics, strong showings from American males and — oh yeah,