4:19 AM ET Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Kiki Bertens won her third WTA Tour singles title of the season on Sunday and denied Ajla Tomljanovic her career first with a 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-2 win over the Croatian-born Australian. The second-seeded Bertens, who won the final six games of the match, was a
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12:23 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Fourth-seeded Karolina Pliskova beat Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Pan Pacific Open and deny the U.S. Open Champion a win in her home country. Osaka, who upset Serena Williams in the final in New York, hadn’t dropped a set before Sunday’s final and was
Sep 21, 2018 Some of the ATP Tour’s biggest names have descended upon Chicago for this weekend’s second annual Laver Cup, an exhibition featuring stars from Europe against the best from the rest of the world. Sure, no points are allocated, but that’s a moot point when you have this level of awesomeness on one
8:33 AM ET Andy Murray will end his season after playing upcoming tournaments in Shenzhen and Beijing to be “in the best possible shape” for the Australian Open in January. Former world No. 1 Murray returned to the ATP tour in June after having hip surgery last January and has played nine competitive matches this
5:58 PM ET ESPN staff Gilles Simon beat his fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet at the ninth attempt with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 victory at the Moselle Open on Friday. Gasquet had won all eight of their encounters before this meeting, and with Simon arriving in Metz out of form it was expected to be win
6:52 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Australian tennis player Oliver Anderson can return to playing immediately after serving a 19-month suspension for deliberately losing a set in a match in a second-tier Challenger event in 2016. The Tennis Integrity Unit says the 20-year-old Anderson was provisionally suspended in February 2017 and later convicted of
3:31 AM ET Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — Ekaterina Alexandrova broke Jelena Ostapenko‘s serve five times Friday and defeated the defending champion and No. 1-seeded player 6-3, 6-2 in a rain-delayed match at the Korea Open. Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, had reached the quarterfinals or better at six tournaments this year, including
1:14 PM ET Fresh from sending sixth seed Viktoria Kuzmova out of the Guangzhou Open in the last 16, America’s Bernarda Pera has mounted another upset to send fourth seed Aleksandra Krunic out of the tournament after mounting a comeback against the Serbian. Pera, who is ranked 82nd in the world, dropped the first set,
3:50 PM ET Kei Nishikori is through to the quarterfinals of the Moselle Open after easing past defending champion Peter Gojowczyk in straight sets. In what was Nishikori’s first match since making the semifinals of the US Open, the world No. 12 was taken to a tiebreaker for the first set — in which he
1:52 PM ET Associated Press Stan Wawrinka continued his injury comeback with a hard-fought win over Karen Khachanov to reach the quarterfinals of the St. Petersburg Open on Wednesday. Wawrinka saved two set points in each set on his way to winning 7-6 (10), 7-6 (1) over the fourth-seeded Khachanov, who at No. 24 is