4:29 PM ET Associated Press Defending champion Sorana Cirstea advanced to the semifinals at the clay-court Istanbul Championship by defeating Julia Grabher of Austria 7-5, 6-1 on Friday. The Romanian last year ended a 13-year wait for her second career singles title when she upset Elise Mertens in the final. Cirstea will next play third-seeded

4:11 PM ET Associated Press STUTTGART, Germany — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek ended US Open champion Emma Raducanu‘s first clay tournament run with a 6-4, 6-4 win Friday to move into the Stuttgart Open semifinals. Swiatek extended her win streak to 21 matches and moved closer to what would be a fourth consecutive title after victories

Apr 22, 2022 Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia — Andrey Rublev and Fabio Fognini will face off in the Serbia Open semifinals after they each picked up wins in Friday’s quarterfinals. Rublev held serve throughout as he swept aside Taro Daniel 6-2, 6-3 for his 21st win of 2022. That ranked him second on tour, behind

5:03 PM ET Associated Press Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas waited a day to close out his opening match at the Barcelona Open with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 win over Ilya Ivashka on Thursday. The match was suspended because of rain on Wednesday with Tsitsipas leading 5-1. Rain again delayed the match’s resumption on Thursday, but the

4:38 PM ET Associated Press STUTTGART, Germany — US Open champion Emma Raducanu defeated Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch 6-0, 2-6, 6-1 at the Stuttgart Open on Thursday to set up a quarterfinal match against top-ranked Iga Swiatek. It will be the 19-year-old Raducanu’s first match against a top-10 opponent. Raducanu, who won at Flushing Meadows as

3:33 PM ET Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic dug deep for the second match in a row to reach the semifinals of the Serbia Open with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Miomir Kecmanovic on Thursday. Kecmanovic won the opening set without facing a break point, but Djokovic finally showed signs of

5:24 AM ET Novak Djokovic has hit back at Wimbledon’s decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players over the invasion of Ukraine, describing the move as “crazy.” Wimbledon announced on Wednesday that it had barred all Russian and Belarusian players from this year’s championships due to the invasion. 1 Related The grass-court Grand Slam is

1:56 PM ET ESPN tennis analyst Pam Shriver said Wednesday that she was in what she called “an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older coach” that began when she was 17 and lasted for five years. Shriver, in an interview with ESPN’s Outside the Lines as well as a first-person story and podcast

3:05 PM ET Players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year. The decision was announced Wednesday. The third Slam of the year became the first to ban players from those countries, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Belarus’ close allyship to Russian president Vladimir Putin. The

7:12 AM ET ESPN News Services Russian players will not be allowed to compete at Wimbledon this year due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, according to multiple reports. A ban on Russian players would prevent world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev and No. 8 Andrey Rublev from competing in the men’s draw. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is