Tennis

3:01 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Coco Gauff reached her first grass-court quarterfinal by beating Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu 6-0, 6-4 Thursday at the Berlin Open. The American 18-year-old, who reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open on clay this month, cruised through the first set but then had to come

11:16 AM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Defending champion Ugo Humbert was eliminated from the Halle Open in the second round after losing to Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Wednesday. The fifth-seeded Hurkacz saved three of the four break points he faced. He will next play either Mackenzie McDonald or Felix Auger-Aliassime in

11:54 AM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Karolina Pliskova edged Bianca Andreescu 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7) at the Berlin Open on Wednesday to reach her second quarterfinal of the year. The fourth-seeded Pliskova, who hit 17 aces against Kaia Kanepi in the first round, added 12 more against Andreescu, though she had to fight back

1:10 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Second-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Benjamin Bonzi 7-6 (1), 1-6, 6-3 in the first round of the Halle Open on Tuesday, when there were also wins for Felix Auger-Aliassime and Nick Kyrgios. Tsitsipas, who reached the quarterfinals in Stuttgart last week, had to fight hard to beat the

1:16 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — The second-seeded Maria Sakkari eased into the second round of the Berlin Open on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-2 win over French qualifier Leolia Jeanjean, while Andrea Petkovic delighted the home fans by upsetting Garbiñe Muguruza. Petkovic defeated the fifth-seeded Muguruza 7-6 (8), 6-4 for her first win

1:16 PM ET Associated Press The US Open will allow tennis players from Russia and Belarus to compete this year despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, which prompted Wimbledon to ban those athletes. U.S. Tennis Association CEO and executive director Lew Sherr, whose group runs the US Open, said in a telephone interview with The

7:51 AM ET Serena Williams strongly hinted at a return to tennis this month at Wimbledon in a social media post Tuesday. Williams, 40, hasn’t competed since injuring her right leg last year at Wimbledon and did not appear on the women’s singles entry list released last Friday by the grass-court Grand Slam. But Williams

5:11 AM ET Former world No. 1 Andy Murray has been forced to withdraw from the Queen’s Club Championship in London after picking up an abdominal injury, the tournament’s organisers said on Monday. Murray, a five-times champion at Queen’s who last won the title in 2016, suffered an abdominal injury during Sunday’s Stuttgart Open final

2:00 PM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Last year’s finalist Andrey Rublev lost to Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-6 (1), 6-4 in the first round of the Halle Open on Monday. Rublev, who won titles in Marseille, Dubai, and Belgrade this season, was bidding to go one better in Halle after losing last year’s decider to

2:47 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Karolina Pliskova started her grass-court season, beating Kaia Kanepi 6-7 (5), 6-0, 6-0 in the first round of the Berlin Open on Monday, when Bianca Andreescu and Daria Kasatkina also won. The fourth-seeded Pliskova, a finalist at last year’s Wimbledon, rallied as Kanepi faded after their hard-fought first

5:33 AM ET Daniil Medvedev has replaced Novak Djokovic as men’s world No. 1 on Monday, just two weeks before this year’s Wimbledon Championships where he is barred due to his Russian nationality. The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) banned Russian and Belarusian players from competition following the invasion of Ukraine, leading the ATP

4:42 PM ET Associated Press NOTTINGHAM, England — Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil captured her first WTA title by winning the Nottingham Open thanks to a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 victory over Alison Riske of the United States on Sunday. The seventh-seeded Haddad Maia consigned the sixth-seeded Riske to a second loss in the final of

1:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Dutch wild card Tim Van Rijthoven capped a dream run at the Libema Open by beating top seed Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-1 in the final at ‘s-Hertogenbosch on Sunday. Van Rijthoven, ranked 205th in the world, had never won a main-draw match at an ATP Tour event until this

4:09 AM ET Roger Federer said he is “definitely” intending to return to top-level tennis in 2023, but added that he had not made any concrete plans beyond his scheduled appearances at the Laver Cup and his home tournament in Basel later this year. The former world No. 1, who will be 41 in August,

3:36 PM ET Associated Press Dan Evans reacts during his win over Jack Sock to reach the Nottingham Open final. Nathan Stirk/Getty Images for LTA Top-seeded Dan Evans of Britain beat Jack Sock of the United States 7-5, 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the final of the Nottingham Open against Jordan Thompson, who won an

11:54 AM ET Andy Murray stormed to a 7-6(5), 6-2 straight sets victory over Nick Kyrgios in the semifinals of the Stuttgart Open on Saturday, reaching his second ATP final of the year and 70th of his career. The 35-year-old Scot will face last year’s Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini on Sunday for a chance to

4:36 PM ET Associated Press BERLIN — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek has pulled out of next week’s grass-court tournament in Berlin because of a shoulder problem, saying Friday she needs to rest up ahead of Wimbledon. Swiatek is coming off her second French Open title after beating American teenager Coco Gauff in the final at Roland

3:45 PM ET Associated Press Top-seeded Dan Evans kept alive the home challenge at the Nottingham Open on Friday by reaching the semifinals in a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Switzerland’s Marc-Andrea Huesler. The 32-year-old Brit is seeking his second career title since turning professional in 2016 — his only ATP singles victory came at last