6:54 PM ET Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — Top-ranked Ash Barty beat former No. 1 Garbine Muguruza 6-1, 6-7 (4), 6-2 Thursday to reach the semifinals of the Qatar Open. Barty broke for a 5-2 lead in the deciding set and clinched the win when Muguruza sent a forehand wide. The Australian will next face
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2:27 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Kim Clijsters has been given a wild card into next month’s BNP Paribas Open, another step in her tennis comeback at age 36. The four-time major winner won in 2003 and 2005 at Indian Wells before retiring nearly eight years ago. Clijsters hasn’t competed at the
7:54 PM ET Maria Sharapova is nothing if not knowledgeable about herself. For as long as she has been in the public eye, she remained true to that pared-down, hyper-aggressive game (oh, that piercing war cry when she struck the ball!) that earned her a career Grand Slam, albeit one with an asterisk applied due
1:48 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer Maria Sharapova looked tired when she walked into the media room after her first-round loss at the Australian Open last month. Tired of losing, and tired of the questions that inevitably followed. It was her third straight loss in the opening round at a major. But despite the evidence
1:29 PM ET Petra Kvitova needed all her considerable experience to beat Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 5-7, 6-1 and reach the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open on a windy Wednesday in Doha. The No. 8 seed, who won the Qatar title in 2018, looked on course for a routine victory after running away with the
8:32 AM ET ESPN News Services Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement. “Tennis — I’m saying goodbye,” she wrote in an essay that appeared Wednesday in Vogue and Vanity Fair. Sharapova turned pro in 2001 at age 14. She won Wimbledon in 2004, the US Open in 2006, the Australian Open
9:42 PM ET Andy Murray‘s hopes to return to the ATP Tour at the Miami Open aren’t exactly dashed, but they appear on hold. Murray is dealing with a side effect from a recent hip resurfacing and it might require him to undergo a surgery — again. “I have not had lots of clarity as
4:07 PM ET Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin crashed out of the Qatar Open on Tuesday, suffering a straight-sets defeat to Dayana Yastremska. Kenin’s serve was broken early in the first set and the American failed to recover as her Ukrainian opponent claimed the frame 6-3. 1 Related Kenin, 21, started the second set stronger
4:59 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Former Texas men’s tennis coach Michael Center was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for taking a $100,000 bribe as part of a sweeping college admissions scam. Center collapsed into his chair and sobbed with his face in his hands after the judge declared he would spend
10:24 AM ET Reuters Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print American teenager Coco Gauff broke into the top 50 of the updated WTA rankings released on Monday, becoming the first 15-year-old in 15 years to achieve the feat. Gauff, who continued her dramatic rise by reaching the fourth round on her Australian Open debut