1:10 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (1), 1-6, 6-3 in the first round of the Halle Open on Tuesday, when there were also wins for Felix Auger-Aliassime and Nick Kyrgios. Tsitsipas, who reached the quarterfinals in Stuttgart last week, had to fight hard to beat the
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1:16 PM ET Associated Press The US Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, which prompted Wimbledon to ban those athletes. U.S. Tennis Association CEO and executive director Lew Sherr, whose group runs the US Open, said in a telephone interview with The
7:51 AM ET Serena Williams strongly hinted at a return to tennis this month at Wimbledon in a social media post Tuesday. Williams, 40, hasn’t competed since injuring her right leg last year at Wimbledon and did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released last Friday by the grass-court Grand Slam. But Williams
5:11 AM ET Former world No. 1 Andy Murray has been forced to withdraw from the Queen’s Club Championship in London after picking up an abdominal injury, the tournament’s organisers said on Monday. Murray, a five-times champion at Queen’s who last won the title in 2016, suffered an abdominal injury during Sunday’s Stuttgart Open final
2:47 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Karolina Pliskova started her grass-court season, beating Kaia Kanepi 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-0 in the first round of the Berlin Open on Monday, when Bianca Andreescu and Daria Kasatkina also won. The fourth-seeded Pliskova, a finalist at last year’s Wimbledon, rallied as Kanepi faded after their hard-fought first
12:32 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Monica Puig, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, announced her retirement from professional tennis Monday. The 28-year-old cited her recent string of injuries and subsequent surgeries as the reason for her decision in a post on her Instagram account. “After a tough 3 year fight with injuries and 4 surgeries, my
4:42 PM ET Associated Press NOTTINGHAM, England — Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil captured her first WTA title by winning the Nottingham Open thanks to a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 victory over Alison Riske of the United States on Sunday. The seventh-seeded Haddad Maia consigned the sixth-seeded Riske to a second loss in the final of
1:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Dutch wild card Tim Van Rijthoven capped a dream run at the Libema Open by beating top seed Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-1 in the final at ‘s-Hertogenbosch on Sunday. Van Rijthoven, ranked 205th in the world, had never won a main-draw match at an ATP Tour event until this
12:00 PM ET Matteo Berrettini denied Andy Murray his first ATP singles title in almost three years edged to a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 victory in the Stuttgart Open final on Sunday. Murray was playing in his second singles final of the year, having previously lost to Aslan Karatsev at the Sydney Open in January. On
4:09 AM ET Roger Federer said he is “definitely” intending to return to top-level tennis in 2023, but added that he had not made any concrete plans beyond his scheduled appearances at the Laver Cup and his home tournament in Basel later this year. The former world No. 1, who will be 41 in August,