7:53 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Simona Halep is back as the year-end No. 1 for the second year in a row, despite a back injury that doctors say could lead to a long-term problem. Halep, who won her first major title at this year’s French Open, clinched the year-end top tennis ranking on
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3:42 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Juan Martin del Potro has fractured his right patella bone in what the Argentine called “a hard blow that leaves me without strength.” Del Potro retired Thursday against Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters after injuring his knee. Third-seeded Del Potro fell near the end of
9:57 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Novak Djokovic won a record fourth Shanghai Masters title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 13th-seeded Borna Coric on Sunday. The second-seeded Djokovic has won all four Shanghai finals he’s contested in his career (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018). He previously shared the record of winning three Shanghai
7:30 AM ET 18-year-old Dayana Yastremska defeated Wang Qiang 6-2, 6-1 in the final of the Hong Kong Open to win her first WTA title. Yastremska, the current world No. 102, becomes only the second teenager to win a WTA singles title this season, following Olga Danilovic’s success in Moscow in July. The Ukrainian raced
10:00 AM ET Associated Press Wang Qiang, the best Chinese women’s player in tennis with a ranking of No. 24, will play Ukrainian teen Dayana Yastremska for a third career title at the Hong Kong Open on Sunday. Wang posted two upset victories on Saturday by first finishing her rain-postponed quarterfinal against top-seeded Elina Svitolina
6:31 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — No. 3-ranked Novak Djokovic will play for the Shanghai Masters title after crushing No. 5 Alexander Zverev 6-2, 6-1 in a near-flawless semifinal on Saturday. Djokovic’s serve has not been broken this week in 37 service games. He never offered Zverev a break point opportunity, and broke the
11:13 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Borna Coric upset defending champion Roger Federer and will face Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters final on Sunday. Coric earned passage to the final by taking down the top-seeded Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals on Saturday. “It was one of the best matches of my life,”
11:30 AM ET Garbine Muguruza advanced to the semifinals of the Hong Kong Open with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Luksika Kumkhum on Friday. It is the first semifinal the two-time Grand Slam champion has reached since making the last four of the French Open in May. No. 4 seed Muguruza is likely to face
9:19 AM ET Top seed Karolina Pliskova took another step towards the end-of-season WTA Finals as she defeated Britain’s Katie Boulter at the Tianjin Open. The world No. 6 from the Czech Republic came back from a set down and then a break down in the decider to see off Boulter 5-7, 6-0, 6-3. She
12:51 PM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Although Roger Federer finally won a match in straight sets at this year’s Shanghai Masters, it didn’t save him any energy. The defending champion reached the semifinals Friday by beating eighth-seeded Kei Nishikori 6-4, 7-6 (4). His first two matches both went three sets. “It was the same