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Top-seeded Iga Swiatek proved to be a quick learner as she ousted Marketa Vondrousova 7-6 (7/3), 6-1 in a battle of Grand Slam champions at the ATP/WTA Cincinnati Open. Swiatek, the reigning US Open and French Open champion, said she applied the lessons from her first-set struggles in the second to sweep past Wimbledon winner Vondrousova. She…
Carlos Alcaraz withstood a string of frustrating rain delays to beat Tommy Paul 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (7/0) 6-3 on Thursday, avenging a loss to the American last week and reaching the quarter-finals of the ATP/WTA Cincinnati Open. Paul was unable to repeat his sensational upset of the world number one from last Friday in Toronto,…
Croatia’s Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion, and Canadian Denis Shapovalov have withdrawn from the upcoming US Open, tournament officials announced on Wednesday. Both players were sidelined from the year’s final Grand Slam event on the New York hardcourts due to knee injuries. Cilic, 34, was a French Open semi-finalist last year and ranked…
Jessica Pegula overpowered a weary Liudmila Samsonova to clinch the second WTA 1000 title of her career on Sunday with a victory in the Montreal Open. The 29-year-old American world number three dominated her Russian opponent from start to finish to claim a whirlwind 6-1, 6-0 triumph in just 49 minutes. Fifteenth-seed Samsonova had battled…
Australian star Nick Kyrgios has withdrawn from this month’s US Open as he works his way back from injury, organizers said on Thursday. Kyrgios has played just once in 2023 following knee surgery in January, and a wrist injury subsequently forced him to withdraw from Wimbledon and ATP events in Washington, Toronto and Cincinnati. The…
Carlos Alcaraz won his 13th ATP match in a row as the world number one began the Toronto Masters by defeating Ben Shelton 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) on Wednesday. The second-round battle of the two 20-year-olds went to the Spaniard, who is bidding for Canadian success after winning successive trophies at Queen’s Club and Wimbledon. Alcaraz…
Former world number ones Karolina Pliskova and Victoria Azarenka advanced after rain delays on Monday’s first day of the WTA Montreal Open hardcourt tournament. Czech standout Pliskova beat China’s Zhu Lin to book a second-round berth against current world number one Iga Swiatek of Poland, the reigning US and French Open champion. Pliskova, the runner-up…
World number ones Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek, the reigning US Open champions, were named on Monday as the top seeds for next week’s WTA and ATP Cincinnati Masters tournament. The tournament is the last major hardcourt tuneup event for this year’s US Open, the final Grand Slam showdown of the year that begins on…
Taylor Fritz on Friday extended his winning streak to six matches on the American hard courts by securing his passage in the semi-finals of the Washington Open. The American battled past three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray 6-7 (2/7), 6-3, 6-4 then returned to breeze past Jordan Thompson. Fritz was not the only player to…
kraine’s Elina Svitolina grabbed a second straight victory over Victoria Azarenka of Belarus at the WTA Tour DC Open in Washington on Monday, weeks after the duo’s Wimbledon clash was marred by a handshake controversy. Azarenka was booed off court at Wimbledon earlier this month after her defeat to Svitolina, with fans apparently perceiving she…