Tennis

11:10 PM ET NEW YORK — One sleepless night during Wimbledon, Daniil Medvedev began to envision what he would do if he won the sport’s most fabled tournament. The Russian player knew if he did, he would have to come up with some sort of special celebration, since so many past champions there have had

Sep 12, 2021 NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic said he felt “relief” that his run toward history was finally over after coming up short in the US Open on Sunday. The world No. 1 was going for the first calendar-year Grand Slam — winning all four major titles in the same year — by a

Sep 12, 2021 ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Sam Stosur and Zhang Shuai won their second Grand Slam women’s doubles title together and denied Coco Gauff and Caty McNally their first with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory on Sunday. The No. 14 seeds added the US Open title to the Australian Open they won

Sep 12, 2021 ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Diede de Groot became the first woman to achieve a Golden Slam after winning the women’s wheelchair singles title at the US Open on Sunday. De Groot, of the Netherlands, beat Yui Kamiji 6-3, 6-2 in the final. The Golden Slam consists of winning all four

3:25 PM ET ESPN staff Novak Djokovic, the No. 1-ranked men’s player in the world, has a chance to make history: complete the calendar-year Grand Slam and break a tie with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who also have 20 major titles, for the most in men’s tennis history. Daniil Medvedev can spoil Djokovic’s bid

10:16 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — Emma Raducanu arrived in New York three weeks ago for the US Open qualifying tournament ranked No. 150 in the world and having just played in the biggest final of her career — a Challenger event in Chicago. She leaves the city as the most improbable Grand

6:58 PM ET NEW YORK — No one knew what to expect out of this US Open all-teen women’s final between Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez. The Open has seen two teens battle it out for the championship before. The last time was in 1999 when a then-17-year-old Serena Williams stopped an 18-year-old Martina Hingis.

4:30 PM ET ESPN staff In a very unexpected US Open women’s final, we have two teenagers — Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu — making their first appearances in the final round of a Grand Slam event. Honestly, who would have guessed this pairing? Or even that just one of these women would make it

1:29 AM ET NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic had just held serve for a commanding 5-0 lead in the fifth set when he let out a Kobe Bryant-esque scream while clenching his fist. All Alexander Zverev could do was put his racket into his mouth and bite down in frustration. On the opposite side, Djokovic

7:00 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — Leylah Fernandez never doubted she could beat the best in the world. But given she had never advanced past the third round at a major before arriving to the 2021 US Open, it was everyone else who needed convincing. By the end of her third-round match against

1:25 AM ET NEW YORK — As the No. 2 player in the world was imploding with her second consecutive double fault at the worst time, Leylah Fernandez turned and glared toward her player’s box, where family and even Brooklyn Nets head coach and Canadian basketball legend Steve Nash sat on the edges of their

10:32 PM ET Associated Press Billie Jean King and the pioneering “Original 9” were honored at the US Open for their induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The six members who were in attendance were presented rings on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court in between the women’s semifinal matches. The women’s players signed

9:49 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Leylah Fernandez‘s first major semifinal, at the US Open just days after her 19th birthday, did not go her way at the start. After she recovered from that to take a lead, No. 2 seed Aryna Sabalenka pushed a match filled with momentum swings to a back-and-forth

7:00 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — Leylah Fernandez stood on the court as every person sitting in Arthur Ashe Stadium looked on, enraptured by her every word. The 19-year-old had just won her quarterfinal match at the US Open against No. 5 seed Elina Svitolina, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5), and advanced to her

12:37 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Never fazed, rarely flummoxed, Novak Djokovic is collected in best-of-five-set matches even when falling behind, as he has done repeatedly at this US Open. No opponent, or the prospect of what is at stake, has been too much to handle. Not yet, anyway. And now he is

3:00 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — Fifteen minutes after Aryna Sabalenka won her quarterfinal match at the US Open, she was outside of Arthur Ashe Stadium on the practice courts, blasting forehands and finessing her serve. She had just beaten reigning French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday to reach the

2:09 PM ET ESPN News Services Emma Raducanu became the second teenager to reach the US Open semifinals in two days, upsetting Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic 6-3, 6-4. The 18-year-old qualifier from Britain joined Leylah Fernandez of Canada, who earned her semifinal spot Tuesday, a day after her 19th birthday. Raducanu is also the

5:48 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — With no players from the United States left to pull for in the US Open, the fans are adopting a neighbor from the North to treat as one of their own: Leylah Fernandez, an unseeded Canadian teenager with an exciting game and enthusiasm to match. A day