6:08 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Belinda Bencic and Swiss tennis are doing just fine without Roger Federer at the Olympics. The 12th-ranked Bencic beat Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-3 on Thursday to reach the gold-medal match at the Tokyo Games. And that wasn’t all. After a short rest, Bencic was

10:33 PM ET ESPN News Services TOKYO — Italian tennis player Fabio Fognini has apologized for yelling at himself with an anti-gay slur during a loss in the Olympic tennis tournament. Fognini used the offensive Italian word repeatedly during the three-set loss to Russian Olympic Committee player Daniil Medvedev in the third round on Wednesday.

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2:07 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Bent over in exhaustion before serving. Resting on his racket between points. Grasping for a rubber tube blowing cool air next to his seat on changeovers. Two medical timeouts and one visit from a trainer. Daniil Medvedev was struggling so much with the suffocating heat and humidity at

2:45 AM ET She lit the fire to start the Olympics, but Naomi Osaka‘s Tokyo 2020 dreams were extinguished far too soon on Tuesday in just over an hour by Marketa Vondrousova. With a flurry of unforced errors and growing frustration, the tennis star’s Games ended with a 6-1, 6-4 loss to Vondrousova, ranked No.

1:07 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Japan’s tennis superstar is out of the Tokyo Olympics. Naomi Osaka lost to former French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4 in the third round of the Tokyo tennis tournament on Tuesday. Keep up with the Summer Games in Japan on ESPN: Read more

4:50 PM ET Associated Press Maryna Zanevska claimed her maiden WTA Tour title on Sunday after a 6-4, 7-6, (7-4) victory over Kristina Kucova at the Poland Open in Gdynia. Both players were vying for their first WTA singles titles and it was the Belgian who battled back from double-breaks in both sets to claim

12:38 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — There were never any questions about Naomi Osaka’s potential on the tennis court when she took a two-month mental health break. Especially on hard courts — the surface being used at the Tokyo Olympics and the surface on which Osaka has won all four of her Grand Slam

4:54 PM ET Norwegian Casper Ruud won his third clay court title of the season on Sunday, beating Frenchman Hugo Gaston 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the Swiss Open in Gstaad. The world number 14, who has also notched up tournament wins this season in Geneva in May and Bastad last week, proved too

4:45 PM ET Danielle Collins earned her maiden WTA Tour title on Sunday after she beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the final of the 32nd Palermo Ladies Open in Italy. The top seed found herself a break of serve down on two occasions in the opening set, but at 4-2 down the American won four games