6:25 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com IN 2016, JESSICA PEGULA’S long-awaited breakthrough seemed inevitable. At the US Open, she advanced through qualifying into the main draw and won her first round match since a knee injury had derailed her three years earlier. Her ascent in the rankings continued throughout the season as she added more WTA

4:47 AM ET Sania Mirza and debutant Ankita Raina were knocked out of the Tokyo Olympics despite dominating a large part of their women’s doubles opener against Ukrainian twin sisters Nadiia and Liudmyla Kichenok on Sunday. Sania and Raina were running away with the contest, but in a dramatic turnaround, the Kichenok sisters came back

11:29 PM ET Andy Murray has withdrawn from the men’s singles tennis tournament at the Tokyo Olympics because of a quad injury. The two-time Olympic gold-medal winner was hoping to defend his title at Tokyo 2020, but he has decided to prioritize the men’s doubles alongside Joe Salisbury. The announcement came prior to his previously

12:09 AM ET Ash Barty has been sensationally knocked out of the Tokyo Olympics singles in the first round, stunned by unheralded Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo in straight sets. The world No.48 beat world No.1 and newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Barty 6-4 6-3 in the biggest shock of the Games to date as the Australian fell

12:16 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com TOKYO — There were no fans in the 10,000-seat Ariake Coliseum to watch Novak Djokovic begin his quest for the elusive Golden Slam on Saturday, nor to cheer on Barbora Krejcikova as she was introduced as the reigning French Open singles and doubles champion nor as Andy Murray and Joe

3:05 AM ET Sumit Nagal on Saturday became only the third Indian to win a men’s singles match at the Olympic Games and the first in 25 years, when he beat Denis Istomin 6-4 6-7(6) 6-4 at the Tokyo 2020 games. Nagal beat Istomin in two hours and 34 minutes on court 10 at the

10:25 PM ET Associated Press Two Georgian tennis players have been barred from the Tokyo Olympics after officials in their home country told them they were entered for the Games but never actually sent the paperwork. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that it had to turn away doubles players Oksana Kalashnikova and Ekaterine

11:19 AM ET Associated Press Tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Games on Friday, ending the flame’s long journey from Greece to these delayed Olympics. The cauldron sat atop a peak inspired by Mount Fuji. It’s a sphere that opened like a flower “to embody vitality and

1:25 AM ET Associated Press Naomi Osaka‘s opening match in the Olympic tennis tournament has been pushed back from Saturday to Sunday. Organizers did not immediately provide a reason for the switch. They said only that the move came from the tournament referee. 1 Related Osaka was originally scheduled to play 52nd-ranked Saisai Zheng of

10:53 AM ET A Grand Slam winner who has called herself an “advocate for change.” The highest-paid female athlete of all time. A fashion icon in the making. Yes, Naomi Osaka is all those things, and she says her one constant through all of it has been staying true to herself. But since winning her