1:35 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Rafael Nadal beat Stan Wawrinka for the 19th time in 22 meetings, winning 6-4, 6-4 Thursday to reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals. The two players share 22 Grand Slams, but Nadal has 19 of them and once again established a stranglehold on his Swiss opponent. Wawrinka’s blistering one-handed
Month: October 2019
1:35 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — After needing seven set points to clinch the first set, four-time champion Novak Djokovic reeled off six straight games to reach the Paris Masters quarterfinals with a 7-6 (7), 6-1 win against Kyle Edmund on Thursday. The top-ranked Serb finished off his British opponent by breaking him at
1:04 AM BST South Africa have been bolstered by the return of flying winger Cheslin Kolbe for the Rugby World Cup final against England in Yokohama on Saturday night. Kolbe returns after missing the Springboks’ semifinal win over Wales through injury, with S’busiso Nkosi dropping out of the squad altogether Coach Rassie Erasmus has otherwise
11:09 AM ET BOONE, N.C. — These are good days to be in Boone, North Carolina. Evenings are cool but not cold, the days warm but not hot. The Blue Ridge Mountains aren’t blue at all. They are in peak autumn Technicolor, splattered with orange, red and even a little purple. But during these finest
10:49 AM BST Wasps have granted Marcus Watson permission to fly out to Japan to watch his brother Anthony play for England in the World Cup final this weekend. The winger has started in the opening two Premiership matches for his club this season, but has been allowed to travel to see England face South
10:29 AM ET U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, citing the knee injury sustained in her defeat by Karolina Pliskova as the reason for pulling out of the season-ending championships. The Canadian suffered the injury three games into her meeting with Pliskova, and although she continued with a
10:28 AM ET Associated Press SHENZHEN, China — Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty reached the semifinals in her debut appearance at the WTA Finals, defeating Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-2 Thursday to finish with a 2-1 record in the Red Group. Barty, the first Australian woman to earn year-end No. 1 ranking, won her first Grand Slam trophy
10:34 AM BST World Rugby has announced the nominees for the Coach of the Year award, with Japan’s Jamie Joseph joining the four World Cup semifinalists’ coaches in the running for the prize. New Zealand-born Joseph led the World Cup hosts to their first ever quarterfinal in the competition earlier this month, overseeing a flawless
9:45 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Li Haotong has come a long way in the HSBC Champions, which he realized before hitting any of his 64 shots Thursday that carried him to a one-shot lead. Standing next to him on the tee was Phil Mickelson, a longtime golf idol. Li was part of the
6:43 AM ET Arizona Cardinals star running back David Johnson is not expected to play Thursday night against the San Francisco 49ers, a source tells ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The absence of Johnson, who officially is listed as questionable, means that newly acquired Kenyan Drake likely will have a prominent role against the undefeated Niners’ top-ranked
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