3:07 PM ET American Taylor Fritz shocked No. 1 seed and tournament favourite Guido Pella 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 to advance to the quarterfinals at Eastbourne on Wednesday. Fritz, who broke Pella’s serve to seal the deciding set, will face Hubert Hurkacz in the last eight after he defeated Sam Johnson 6-3, 7-6 (6). There was
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1:44 PM ET A trio of former world No. 1s stormed into the quarterfinals at Eastbourne on Wednesday with Angelique Kerber, Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova all sharpening their grasscourt games ahead of Wimbledon. Reigning Wimbledon champion Kerber beat Swede Rebecca Peterson 7-6(4), 6-0 and Pliskova crushed Elise Mertens 6-1, 6-2, although Halep was pushed
9:14 AM ET While both the ATP and WTA tours still have Wimbledon tuneup events in progress this week, the major ones were played last week. They certainly were eventful, with Ashleigh Barty and Felix Auger-Aliassime, two of the newest young stars on either tour, positioning themselves as contenders for the Big Show that begins
4:41 PM ET Defending champion Angelique Kerber continued her impressive build-up to Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4 defeat of Australian Samantha Stosur in her opening match at the Eastbourne championships on Tuesday. German left-hander Kerber, twice a runner-up at Eastbourne, was pushed hard by the former US Open champion but broke serve four times on
4:48 PM ET Andy Murray and playing partner Marcelo Melo are out of the men’s doubles at Eastbourne after losing their opening match to Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal 6-2, 6-4 on Tuesday. It was Murray’s first defeat since undergoing hip resurfacing surgery in January after he made a triumphant return to tennis by
8:09 AM ET Andy Murray has said that he would be game to bungee jump off East Sussex’s Beachy Head if he wins in Eastbourne this week. The Scot is enjoying a happy return to competitive tennis after he won the Queen’s Club men’s doubles on Sunday after five months out injured. Murray, 32, kicks
5:44 PM ET ESPN News Serivces LONDON — Bianca Andreescu won’t play at Wimbledon because she needs more time to recover from a shoulder injury. The 19-year-old Andreescu is Canada’s highest-ranked player at No. 25. Tennis Canada took to Twitter to announce Andreescu’s status. Unfortunately due to ongoing shoulder rehab and recovery, Bianca Andreescu has
4:58 PM ET It was a successful day for the Americans in the men’s singles at Eastbourne on Monday, as Taylor Fritz, Sam Querrey and Steve Johnson all progressed into the quarterfinals. Fritz comfortably defeated British qualifier Paul Jubb 6-2, 6-3 to set up a meeting with No. 1 seed Guido Pella. Querrey advanced following
9:17 AM ET India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan needed just a little over an hour to beat former top-50 player Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of Wimbledon qualifiers on Monday. Ramkumar, who is ranked 154th in the world, will next face world number 111 Kamil Majchrzak of Poland. Meanwhile, Saketh Myneni lost
2:56 PM ET Andy Murray completed his extraordinary comeback to tennis on Sunday evening when the Scot and his partner, Feliciano Lopez, defeated Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram 7-6 (6), 5-7, 10-5 in the Queen’s doubles final. The victory marked a second title in one day for Lopez, who was crowned singles champion in the