Tennis

3:24 AM ET Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan saved three match points to clinch a thriller against Danish pair of Frederik Nielsen and Mikael Torpegaard as India kept their place in the Davis Cup World Group I by taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the Play-off tie on Saturday. Sharan, playing his first Davis Cup

11:28 PM ET Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Sebastian Korda won his Davis Cup debut by outlasting scrappy Nicolas Mejia 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 on Friday to help give the United States a 2-0 lead in its qualifier against Colombia. Taylor Fritz, the No. 1 American in this qualifier, had a much easier time in the

11:48 AM ET Associated Press Former Top 20 player Varvara Lepchenko was given a four-year doping suspension on Friday by the International Tennis Federation after she tested positive for a banned stimulant during a tournament last year. Her lawyer, Howard Jacobs, wrote in an email to The Associated Press that Lepchenko intends to appeal the

7:15 AM ET Associated Press Andy Murray is bringing back Ivan Lendl as his coach, reuniting about 4 1/2 years after the pair split up for a second time. Murray’s manager announced Friday that the 34-year-old from Scotland and Lendl have agreed to return to working together over the next few months. Their partnership produced

3:59 AM ET ESPN staff India’s plan to host Denmark on grass courts proved to work as straight-sets win for Yuki Bhambri and Ramkumar Ramanathan gave them a 2-0 lead in the World Group I Play-off tie on Friday. World No 170 Ramkumar cruised to a 6-3, 6-2 win over Christian Siggsgaard, ranked at 824,

7:01 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Ashleigh Barty, the world’s top-ranked women’s tennis player, pulled out of Indian Wells and the Miami Open on Thursday citing a need for an ongoing recovery after winning the Australian Open. Indian Wells begins next week, and had she played, it would have been Barty’s first

6:09 PM ET Associated Press France is easing its vaccination rules later this month, which could pave the way for Novak Djokovic to compete at this year’s French Open. French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced Thursday that people will no longer have to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to access venues such as sports

8:49 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The WTA Tour has agreed to a multi-year, multimillion-dollar title sponsorship deal with Hologic, a medical technology company. The agreement, announced Thursday, gives the women’s professional tennis tour its first title sponsor since a deal with Sony Ericsson ended in 2010. The WTA declined to say

6:05 AM ET The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) have suspended the 2022 Kremlin Cup following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it was announced on Tuesday. The Kremlin Cup was Russia’s first international pro tennis tournament when it was founded in 1990, with this year’s event set to take place

12:09 AM ET ESPN News Services MEXICO CITY — Elina Svitolina put on the yellow and blue colors of Ukraine and beat Anastasia Potapova of Russia 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday in the opening round of the Monterrey Open, deciding she could do more for her country by playing than boycotting the match. Top-seeded Svitolina earlier

6:21 PM ET Associated Press Novak Djokovic and coach Marian Vajda are no longer working together, splitting up after 15 years and 20 Grand Slam titles. A statement that went up on Djokovic’s website on Tuesday said that the two men “agreed to end their partnership” after last year’s season-ending ATP Finals. “Marian has been

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12:12 PM ET Ukrainian tennis player, Marta Kostyuk, ranked No. 49 in the world, expressed “surprise and dissatisfaction” on her social media page with the lack of response from the Women’s Tennis Association on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and demanded that the WTA immediately condemn the Russian government and pull all tournaments out of Russia.

11:01 AM ET Associated Press Daniil Medvedev officially moved up to No. 1 in the ATP rankings on Monday, overtaking Novak Djokovic to become the 27th man to hold the top spot since computerized rankings began in 1973. Medvedev, a 26-year-old from Russia who won the 2021 US Open and was the runner-up at this

7:32 PM ET Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile — Spain’s Pedro Martinez won the Chile Open clay-court tournament on Sunday with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Argentina’s Sebastian Baez, Martinez’s first professional title. Martinez lost last year’s Kitzbuhel Open in Austria in another clay-court tournament. Baez was also attempting to win his first professional title.

1:07 AM ET Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico — Rafael Nadal said earlier in the week that he wasn’t aware of his career statistics. Now, he might want to have a look at them. The 35-year-old Spaniard defeated Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to win the Mexican Open and extend his career-best start for a

3:31 PM ET UKRAINIAN PRO TENNIS player Dayana Yastremska wrapped her arms around her father, tears running down her cheeks. She had to let go. A small boat was waiting to whisk her and her 15-year-old sister, Ivanna, away. Her father had driven them from their home in Odessa, Ukraine, some 150 miles south to

1:45 PM ET Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Andrey Rublev won his second singles title in less than a week — and 10th overall — when he beat Czech qualifier Jiri Vesely 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Championships on Saturday. The seventh-ranked Russian won the Open 13 tournament last Sunday