11:20 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Elina Svitolina secured the biggest title of her career on Sunday, becoming the first Ukrainian player to win the season-ending WTA Finals trophy. The No. 6-seeded Svitolina rebounded from a one-set deficit for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over fifth-seeded Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion. Svitolina
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1:02 PM ET Kei Nishikori will face Kevin Anderson in the final of the Vienna Open after sealing a straight-sets win over Mikhail Kukushkin in the semifinals on Saturday. No. 5 seed Nishikori broke Kukushkin’s serve once in each set, including in the final game of the opener, as he won 6-4, 6-3 in one
12:59 PM ET World No. 93 Marius Copil will face Roger Federer in the Swiss Indoors final after he shocked Alexander Zverev in the semifinals Saturday. Copil, who entered the tournament in Switzerland as a qualifier, broke world No. 5 Zverev in the final game of the match to secure a 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 win,
11:26 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Sloane Stephens overcame a terrible start against Karolina Pliskova to win 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 at the WTA Finals on Saturday, setting up a championship match against Elina Svitolina. “I came out here a little bit nervous and I wasn’t quite feeling the ball,” said the fifth-seeded Stephens, who
4:00 PM ET Roger Federer was stretched to the limit by Gilles Simon before overcoming the Frenchman 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-4 to reach the semifinals of his hometown Swiss Indoors tournament. The Swiss needed two-and-a-half hours Friday to finally break his opponent’s resistance as he claimed his 18th successive win at the tournament, which he
4:45 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Top-ranked Rafael Nadal is slated to make his comeback from a knee injury at the Paris Masters next week. No Grand Slam titles are at stake, but the next-best thing, the race for the year-end No. 1, is up for grabs. So who has the advantage? Organizers said
3:00 PM ET Kei Nishikori ended top seed Dominic Thiem‘s Erste Bank Open hopes and boosted his own chances of making the ATP Finals in London. No. 5 seed Nishikori defeated Thiem 6-3, 6-1 in Vienna to advance to the semifinals, where he will face Mikhail Kukushkin. With his victory Friday, Japan’s Nishikori moved above
6:04 AM ET The ATP is to introduce a new video review system at the Next Gen Finals in November which will allow players to challenge incidents such as doubles bounces and foul shots. The video review, which is powered by the same Hawk-Eye technology used to determine whether a ball is in or out,
4:03 PM ET Roger Federer recovered from a slow start to beat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-3 7-5 and reach the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors, his hometown tournament, on Thursday. The top seed was broken in the second game of the second-round match by the big-serving German but, after going 3-1 behind, the 37-year-old hit back
1:08 PM ET Caroline Wozniacki revealed Thursday at the WTA Finals that she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis before the US Open. “In the beginning, it was a shock, just, you feel like you’re the fittest athlete out there, or that’s in my head, that’s what I’m known for, and all of a sudden you