Tennis

Associated Press Jun 18, 2023, 12:54 PM ET STUTTGART, Germany — There will be two American men’s tennis players ranked in the top 10 for the first time in more than a decade after Frances Tiafoe beat Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday to win the Stuttgart Open for his first grass-court title. Tiafoe won 4-6, 7-6

Associated Press Jun 18, 2023, 12:17 PM ET DEN BOSCH, Netherlands — Ekaterina Alexandrova defended her Libema Open title against fellow Russian and top seed Veronika Kudermetova after coming back to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) on Sunday in a nearly three-hour match that also had several rain delays. It was the first time in

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 12:33 PM ET DEN BOSCH, Netherlands — Ekaterina Alexandrova will defend her Libema Open title against fellow Russian and top seed Veronika Kudermetova after both reached the final on Saturday without dropping a set all week. The No. 4-seeded Alexandrova defeated No. 7 Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-1, 7-6 (1)

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 12:58 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — The first all-British final on the WTA Tour in 46 years will play out at the Nottingham Open. Katie Boulter beat Heather Watson 6-4, 7-5 on Saturday in the first all-British semifinal on tour in 48 years, and Jodie Burrage piled on more history

Associated Press Jun 17, 2023, 11:47 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — Frances Tiafoe will contest his first grass-court final after the American player outlasted Marton Fucsovics in a marathon Stuttgart Open tiebreak Saturday. Tiafoe won their semifinal 6-3, 7-6 (11) after saving six set points in the tiebreak. He seized his chance at 11-10 down

Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 03:34 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — Three British players reached the semifinals of the grass-court Nottingham Open on Friday in a boost to the nation that will host Wimbledon in a couple of weeks. Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage and Heather Watson – all placed outside the top 100 in the

Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 11:20 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — There won’t be an all-American semifinal at the Stuttgart Open after Taylor Fritz was upset 6-4, 7-5 by qualifier Marton Fucsovics in the quarterfinals Friday, but Frances Tiafoe won his match to reach the last four. Fritz, the top-ranked American men’s player at No.

Associated Press Jun 16, 2023, 08:27 AM ET LONDON — Romanian tennis player Petru-Alexandru Luncanu has been banned for five years and fined $40,000 in a match-fixing case, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday. Five out of seven match-fixing charges brought by the ITIA against Luncanu were upheld at an anti-corruption hearing, the agency

Associated Press Jun 15, 2023, 02:47 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — The three remaining seeded players at the grass-court Nottingham Open all lost Thursday to leave a quarterfinal lineup with a very British flavor at the Wimbledon warmup tournament. The biggest shock saw third-seeded Magda Linette from Poland lose 7-5, 6-3 to Jodie Burrage of

Associated Press Jun 15, 2023, 06:07 AM ET LONDON — Feliciano Lopez has been appointed tournament director for the Davis Cup Finals, the International Tennis Federation said Thursday. The 41-year-old Lopez, who won the competition with Spain four times, plans to end his playing career after this year. The group stage will take place from

Associated Press Jun 14, 2023, 11:48 PM ET SYDNEY — Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has revealed he spent time in a psychiatric ward following a loss at Wimbledon in 2019 because of suicidal thoughts. The comments from Kyrgios, widely published in Australia on Thursday based on interviews for the upcoming Netflix documentary series “Break

Associated Press Jun 14, 2023, 02:56 PM ET STUTTGART, Germany — Third-seeded Frances Tiafoe overcame stubborn resistance from Jiri Lehecka to beat the Czech player 7-6 (2), 6-4 in his first appearance at the Stuttgart Open on Wednesday. The American player saved a break point at 4-4 in the first set, won the tiebreaker, and

ESPN News Services Jun 14, 2023, 06:49 AM ET The total prize money at Wimbledon this year will rise by 11.2%, with the winners of the singles each getting 2.35 million pounds ($3 million). The total prize fund at the championships will be 44.7 million pounds ($56.5 million), the All England Club said Wednesday. That

Associated Press Jun 13, 2023, 02:48 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — Beatriz Haddad Maia‘s defense of her grass-court Nottingham Open title is over already. Coming off reaching the semifinals at the French Open last week, the Brazilian player was defeated by lucky loser Daria Snigur 6-4, 6-3 in the first round on Tuesday. Snigur was

Associated Press Jun 13, 2023, 02:29 PM ET STUTTGART, Germany — Nick Kyrgios lost on his comeback from knee surgery 7-5, 6-3 to Chinese player Wu Yibing in the first round of the Stuttgart Open on Tuesday. The 2022 Wimbledon finalist looked far from his best in his first match of the year. Kyrgios, a

Associated Press Jun 12, 2023, 03:48 PM ET NOTTINGHAM, England — Top-seeded Maria Sakkari won her opening match at the Nottingham Open on Monday, while former champion Donna Vekic also advanced to the last 16 at the grass-court tournament. Sakkari, the No. 8-ranked Greek, beat Xiyu Wang of China 6-2, 7-6 (6) after Vekic of

Associated Press Jun 12, 2023, 11:06 AM ET STUTTGART, Germany — Lorenzo Sonego eliminated defending champion Matteo Berrettini from the Stuttgart Open on Monday, beating the Italian 6-1, 6-2. Berrettini had been going for his third win in three appearances at the grass-court tournament. But he struggled from the start against the 41st-ranked Sonego, who

ESPN News Services Jun 12, 2023, 07:34 AM ET Beatriz Haddad Maia became the first Brazilian woman to reach the top 10 of the WTA rankings Monday after her dream run to the French Open semifinals. Haddad Maia, 27, beat Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in the quarterfinals in Paris to become the first Brazilian woman in