Tennis

5:20 PM ET ESPN News Services ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas rallied past a qualifier at the Rotterdam hard-court indoor tournament on Saturday to reach his first final since the French Open last June. Tsitsipas ended Czech qualifier Jiri Lehecka‘s run in three sets, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. He will face Felix Auger-Aliassime in Sunday’s
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7:22 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Seventh-seeded Marcos Giron upended No. 1 seed Taylor Fritz — his practice partner — 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3) on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the ATP Dallas Open. Giron battled back after losing the second set and falling behind 4-2 in the third set. “When I was
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10:20 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Top-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway advanced to the semifinals of the Argentina Open on Friday with a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win against home-crowd favorite Federico Coria. He’ll play another Argentinian on Saturday, sixth-seeded Federico Delbonis, who beat Italy’s Fabio Fognini, the fourth seed, 6-4, 6-4. Third-seeded Lorenzo
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11:55 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Second-seeded Reilly Opelka advanced to the quarterfinals of the inaugural Dallas Open with a straight-sets win over Cedrik-Marcel Stebe on Thursday night. Opelka, a two-time ATP Tour winner ranked 23rd in the world, won 7-6 (3), 7-6 (8) in his second meeting with Stebe. The first was at
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11:20 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Second-seeded and home crowd favorite Diego Schwartzman defeated Spain’s Jaume Munar 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Argentina Open. Schwartzman will face Francisco Cerundolo, the Argentinian compatriot he beat to win last year’s title in Buenos Aires. Schwartzman, ranked the 15th-best
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11:46 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — John Isner beat Kevin Anderson to advance to the quarterfinals of his hometown Dallas Open on Wednesday night, outlasting the South African in their first meeting since a marathon in the Wimbledon semifinals in 2018. All three sets went to tiebreakers, with Isner holding on, 7-6 (1), 6-7
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12:31 AM ET ESPN News Services INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic is on the entry list for the BNP Paribas Open in California, where the Serb would face a vaccine mandate. Djokovic, who was unvaccinated against COVID-19 as of last month, was detained and eventually deported from Australia for failing to meet that
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8:20 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES — Top-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway defeated Spain’s Roberto Carballes Baena 7-6 (2), 6-2 on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Argentina Open. Ruud, the No. 8-ranked men’s player in the world, will face local favorite Federico Coria, who earlier beat fifth-seeded Dusan Lajovic of Serbia
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9:29 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Qualifier Jurij Rodionov of Austria defeated sixth-seeded American Maxime Cressy of 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-1 on Tuesday to advance to the round of 16 at the inaugural Dallas Open. Paris-born Cressy was the first of the eight seeded players to lose his match. A former UCLA player, Cressy now
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