Garbine Muguruza cradled her smiling face in both hands and closed her eyes, taking it all in. The Wimbledon champion had added another title to her breakthrough summer — this one at the expense of a player who can't quite get to No. 1. Muguruza defeated Simona Halep 6-1, 6-0 for ...
Ace Kei Nishikori, whose season has been cut short due to injury, dropped from ninth to 10th in the latest ...
Garbine Muguruza reached her first Western and Southern Open final with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over defending champion Karolina Pliskova ...
Australia's Nick Kyrgios humbled new world No. 1 Rafael Nadal 6-2, 7-5 Friday, winning twice in one day to reach the Western & Southern Open semifinals. On a day when defending champion Karolina Pliskova won twice in one day for the third time this season ...
Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza overcame a long rain delay in the third set and fought off three match points Thursday before advancing to the quarterfinals of the Western & Southern Open. The tournament's No. 4 seed beat American Madison Keys 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3) to ...
Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka says her participation in the U.S. Open is in doubt because she might not be able to bring her son with her to New York as a result of her separation from the baby's father. Azarenka wrote via a ...
Rafael Nadal and Karolina Pliskova — the No. 1 seeds in the Western & Southern Open — advanced with straight-set wins Wednesday, while the rest of their brackets suffered more top losses. Nadal sat out an hour-long rain delay and beat Richard Gasquet 6-3, 6-4 ...
Kei Nishikori will sit out the remainder of the season due to rupturing his right wrist tendon, his management firm said Wednesday. Nishikori, ranked ninth in the world, withdrew Sunday from the ongoing Western and Southern Open, a tuneup to the U.S. Open starting late ...
Yuichi Sugita took advantage of 43 unforced errors by Jack Sock to oust the U.S. 13th seed 7-5, 6-4 in the first round of the Western and Southern Open on Tuesday. Sugita clinched his win by breaking Sock with a shot that clipped the baseline, ...
Maria Sharapova was granted a wild-card invitation for the U.S. Open's main draw on Tuesday and will take part in a Grand Slam event for the first time in more than 1½ years. Sharapova is among eight women given entry into the 128-player field by ...
Wimbledon champion Roger Federer withdrew Monday from the Western & Southern Open because of a back injury. He has won the Masters series tournament seven times. The move was announced on the first full day of matches. This U.S. Open warmup has now lost five ...
World No. 9 Kei Nishikori will not compete in the upcoming Western and Southern Open hard court tournament as he is experiencing pain in his right wrist, he said through his official app on Sunday. The 27-year-old Japanese was scheduled to kick off the U.S. ...
Roger Federer continued his longest winning streak in five years by reaching the Rogers Cup final. The second-seeded Federer used a 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) victory over unseeded Robin Haase of the Netherlands on Saturday to reach his sixth final of the year and win his ...
Swiss star Roger Federer outclassed Roberto Bautista Agut as he inched closer to his sixth title of the season with a 6-4, 6-4 win in the quarterfinals of the Montreal Masters on Friday. Federer hammered five aces, made just two double faults and won 81 ...
The U.S. Tennis Association said shot-clock technology will be tested beginning this month at the U.S. Open. The technology tracks the time taken by the server between points. Stacey Allaster, head of pro tennis at the USTA, told USA TODAY that it will be tested ...
