11:57 AM ET America’s Christina McHale is out of the Guangzhou Open after being beaten in straight sets by fourth seed Alekandra Krunic. McHale, the world No. 114, was comprehensively outplayed by Krunic as she went down 6-3, 6-3 to the Serbian. Krunic was beaten in the final of last year’s Guangzhou Open by Zhang
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10:06 PM ET Associated Press TIANJIN, China — Maria Sharapova says she will end her 2018 season early, and she is withdrawing from the China Open in Beijing, the Tianjin Open and the Kremlin Cup in Moscow due to her recovery from a right shoulder injury. “I will miss competing at each of these tournaments,
4:46 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Defending champion Damir Dzumhur advanced to the second round of the St. Petersburg Open by beating Austrian qualifier Lucas Miedler 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday. Dzumhur came from 3-0 down in the opening set, winning 10 of the following 12 games to establish control. There’s always next
12:32 PM ET Top-seed Alize Cornet is out of the Guangzhou Open after being thumped 6-0 6-3 by Jennifer Brady on Tuesday. World No.34 Cornet made a surprise exit in the first-round of the US Open last month, and toiled again at the WTA event in China against her American opponent. Stan Wawrinka advanced to
4:31 PM ET It is rare in tennis that you are presented with a second chance, so when ‘lucky loser’ Yannick Maden received his, he did not want to give it up. After crashing out in the final round of qualifying as top seed to compatriot Matthias Bachinger earlier in the day, Maden must have
2:05 PM ET Frances Tiafoe sat bare-chested in his changeover chair early Sunday evening with his face buried deep in a white towel. He had just fallen to Borna Coric in a five sets in the fifth-and-deciding match of the Davis Cup semifinals. A few feet away, the jubilant Croatian team formed a semi-circle, dancing
12:47 PM ET Associated Press Stan Wawrinka advanced to the second round of the St. Petersburg Open by beating Aljaz Bedene 7-5, 7-6 (5) Monday. Bedene served for the first set at 5-4 but Wawrinka won the next three games to take the set. The Swiss player then saved four break points in the second.
2:19 PM ET ESPN News Services ZADAR, Croatia — Croatia — just barely — is going to the Davis Cup final. After eight hours of tennis on Sunday, Borna Coric ended a sustained comeback bid from the United States by rallying from two sets to one down to beat Frances Tiafoe 6-7 (0), 6-1, 6-7
10:28 AM ET Associated Press ZADAR, Croatia — Chair umpire Carlos Ramos issued a code violation to Croatia after Marin Cilic slammed his racket to the clay and mangled the frame during a tense Davis Cup match against Sam Querrey of the United States on Sunday. Carlos Ramos, the chair umpire who penalized Serena Williams
3:44 AM ET Associated Press HIROSHIMA, Japan — Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh overpowered American qualifier Amanda Anisimova 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday to win the Japan Women’s Open. Second-seeded Hsieh converted five of six break points against the 17-year-old Anisimova, who was playing in her first WTA final. Anisimova, who turned 17 only two weeks ago, was