3:18 PM ET Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo defeated fellow country-men Sebastian Baez in straight sets by 7-6(4), 6-2, to clinch his maiden title at the Nordea Open on Sunday. Cerundolo, playing in just his second ATP Tour singles final, dropped serve in the opening game of the first set, but the 23-year-old recovered well as he
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2:57 PM ET Croatia’s Petra Martic defeated Serbia’s Olga Danilovic 6-4, 6-2 to capture her second career WTA Tour singles title at Open Lausanne on Sunday. Martic reached the fourth round of the women’s singles at last week’s Wimbledon Championships and brought her superb form to Lausanne, Switzerland, where she dropped just a single set
6:20 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy ended John Isner‘s 10-match winning streak on Newport’s grass courts, beating the fellow American 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the Hall of Fame Open final. Cressy will face No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Bublik beat Jason Kubler of Australia
7:54 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Lleyton Hewitt paused for a moment and the word easily came to mind when he was asked how he wanted to be remembered. “Competitor,” Hewitt said in an interview with The Associated Press earlier in the day before his induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
4:27 PM ET Associated Press Sebastian Baez reached the Swedish Open final on Saturday with a straight-sets win over Andrey Rublev. It will be an all-Argentina final after Baez’s 6-2, 6-4 success in one hour, 16 minutes. Baez broke the Russian twice in the opening set and decisively in the 10th game of the second
6:49 AM ET TORONTO — Serena Williams has decided to compete next month in Toronto, having returned to action two weeks ago at Wimbledon after a year away from competition, tournament organizers said on Thursday. Williams, who suffered a second straight Wimbledon first-round exit this year, elected to use her protected ranking to enter the
5:23 AM ET Former world No. 1 Ash Barty has no regrets about retiring from tennis in March age 25 and does not plan to start playing golf professionally, ending speculation that she would now focus her career on that sport. Barty sent shockwaves around the tennis world when she unexpectedly announced her retirement at
8:12 AM ET Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England — Roger Federer dropped out of the ATP rankings entirely for the first time in a quarter-century on Monday, while Novak Djokovic slid four spots to No. 7 a day after winning Wimbledon for the seventh time. Federer had appeared in the singles rankings every week since he
5:00 PM ET When he’s in form, it feels like a Novak Djokovic win is inevitable. He might be the best returner of serve the sport has ever seen, and his defense is impenetrable. His serve has become a genuine threat, and his backhand is elite as well. He has no weaknesses to attack, and
4:17 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com LONDON — Just hours after winning his fourth straight title at Wimbledon with a four-set victory over Nick Kyrgios, Novak Djokovic confirmed he has no plans to receive the COVID-19 vaccination and will not be playing the US Open unless the restrictions to enter the country are eased or he