Tennis

Associated Press Feb 22, 2025, 02:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Andrey Rublev credited his mental approach after beating Jack Draper 7-5, 5-7, 6-1 to win the Qatar Open for the second time Saturday. It was Rublev’s third three-set win in three days. The Russian also dropped the second set in his

Associated Press Feb 22, 2025, 01:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva beat Clara Tauson 7-6 (1), 6-1 in the Dubai Championships on Saturday to earn the biggest title of her career. The victory will earn Andreeva her debut in the top 10 of the rankings next

Feb 21, 2025, 03:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions British men’s No. 1 Jack Draper secured his place in the final of the Qatar Open with a typically hard-fought 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 win over Jiri Lehecka on Friday. The 23-year-old will face world No. 10 Andrey Rublev in the final on Saturday after the

Associated Press Feb 21, 2025, 04:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Andrey Rublev defeated Félix Auger-Aliassime 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5) to reach another Qatar Open final on Friday. He will face Jack Draper in the decider Saturday. The 10th-ranked Rublev needed four match points to close out No. 23 Auger-Aliassime for the

Associated Press Feb 20, 2025, 02:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz lost for just the second time this year on Thursday when 25th-ranked Jiri Lehecka beat him 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open. Alcaraz’s only other defeat in 2025 was to Novak Djokovic in the

Associated Press Feb 20, 2025, 02:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jannik Sinner has been dropped from an exhibition event in Las Vegas next month while the No. 1-ranked men’s tennis player is serving a three-month ban connected to a pair of failed doping tests. Instead of Sinner, Casper Ruud is now slated to join

Feb 20, 2025, 11:25 AM ET Dubai Police detained a tourist who had engaged in behaviour that caused Emma Raducanu distress during her match at the Dubai Tennis Championships, the government of Dubai said on Thursday. Britain’s Raducanu was visibly distressed and reduced to tears early in her match against Karolina Muchova as she stood

Associated Press Feb 20, 2025, 11:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A low-ranked tennis player from Brazil was cleared in a doping case by the International Tennis Integrity Agency this week after saying his positive drug test for an anabolic steroid was caused by eating contaminated meat while he was entered in a tournament in

Associated Press Feb 19, 2025, 03:22 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Tennis participation in the United States rose to 25.7 million players in 2024, the sport’s fifth consecutive year of growth, the U.S. Tennis Association said Wednesday, citing an analysis of numbers drawn from two studies not yet fully released. The jump of 1.9 million

D’Arcy Maine Feb 19, 2025, 02:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Venus Williams has been awarded a wild card to play in next month’s BNP Paribas Open, which would mark her first tournament play in a year. The Indian Wells, California, tournament announced Wednesday that Williams, a former world No. 1 and seven-time major singles

ESPN News Services Feb 19, 2025, 12:45 AM ET DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Emma Raducanu lost to Karolina Muchova after an emotional first set in which a spectator was ejected at the Dubai Championships. Raducanu, the 2021 US Open champion, appeared to be in tears as she went to the umpire’s chair after the

Associated Press Feb 18, 2025, 10:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RIO DE JANEIRO — Teenage tennis sensation João Fonseca frustrated his home fans at the Rio Open in a first-round loss Tuesday, two days after winning his first ATP title. Fonseca lost 6-1, 7-6 (4) to No. 60-ranked Alexandre Muller of France, making 34

Associated Press Feb 18, 2025, 03:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Novak Djokovic was upset by Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (4), 6-2 on Tuesday at the Qatar Open in the Serb’s first match since exiting the Australian Open with a hamstring injury. The 37-year-old Djokovic, ranked No. 7, lost to the Italian for

Feb 18, 2025, 11:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Novak Djokovic has said that Andy Murray will continue as his coach for an “indefinite” period. Two-time Wimbledon champion Murray worked with Djokovic in the build-up to and during this year’s Australian Open, but after the Serb was forced to retire with an injury in his

Associated Press Feb 17, 2025, 07:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DOHA, Qatar — Novak Djokovic says a majority of tennis players have lost faith in the anti-doping authorities following Jannik Sinner‘s three-month ban, and there’s a widespread feeling that “favoritism” is being shown to the sport’s biggest stars. The 24-time major winner called on

Associated Press Feb 17, 2025, 05:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MADRID — The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday offered an explanation for why top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner received a much shorter doping ban than the six-year suspension it handed to a Spanish figure skater in a doping case involving the same substance. Spanish

Feb 17, 2025, 03:47 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Emma Raducanu ended her four-match losing streak on Sunday as she earned a convincing victory over world No. 29 Maria Sakkari that the 22-year-old Brit said had made her “really proud.” Raducanu took one hour and 20 minutes to overcome her Greek opponent in the first

Associated Press Feb 16, 2025, 08:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Rising tennis star Joao Fonseca finished “an unbelievable week” with a straight-sets victory over Francisco Cerundolo in the Argentina Open final on Sunday to claim his first tour-level title. The 18-year-old Brazilian, who won the Next Gen ATP Finals last