Tennis

12:58 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Jeanne Evert Dubin, a former world-ranked professional tennis player and a younger sister of 18-time Grand Slam champion Chris Evert, has died. She was 62. Evert Dubin died Thursday after a 2½-year struggle with ovarian cancer, according to an online obituary posted by Lorne & Sons
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12:14 AM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — The Rio Open semifinals were suspended early Sunday because of rain. Third-seeded Cristian Garin of Chile led Croatia’s Borna Coric 6-4, 4-4 when play was halted for the third time since Saturday afternoon. Italy’s Gianluca Mager, who eliminated top-seeded Dominic Thiem in the quarterfinals earlier Saturday,
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7:05 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Unseeded Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan rallied past No. 6 Ugo Humbert of France 1-6, 6-4, 6-0 Saturday in the semifinals of the Delray Beach Open. Nishioka’s opponent Sunday will be the winner of Saturday night’s match between No. 2 Milos Raonic of Canada and No. 4
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1:55 PM ET Associated Press Defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas reached the Open 13 final with a 7-5, 6-3 win against Alexander Bublik on Saturday. The second-seeded Greek had six aces and broke his strong-serving Kazakh opponent’s serve three times, dropping his own once. Playing only his third semifinal at this level, Bublik competed well and
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11:34 PM ET Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria trailed Italy’s Gianluca Mager 7-6 (4), 2-1 on Friday when rain forced the suspension of their Rio Open quarterfinal until Saturday. Thiem will overtake Roger Federer for the No. 3 spot in the world if he beats Mager. Mager or Thiem
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5:42 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — No. 6-seeded Ugo Humbert of France advanced to the semifinals at the Delray Beach Open by beating 2018 champion Frances Tiafoe 6-1, 6-2 on Friday. Humbert’s opponent Saturday will be unseeded Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan; he rallied past 18-year-old American Brandon Nakashima 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4.
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12:42 PM ET Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina marched into her fourth final of the season with a 7-6(5), 7-6(2) win over Petra Martic at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Friday. Rybakina came back from a break down in both sets and also saved set points in each to overcome the eighth seeded Croatian in
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9:06 PM ET Associated Press DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Frances Tiafoe advanced to his first ATP Tour quarterfinal this year by beating fellow American Tommy Paul 7-5, 7-6 (4) on Thursday at the Delray Beach Open. Tiafoe, the 2018 champion, said he was pleased to win playing less than his best. “It seems like on
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5:49 PM ET Daniil Medvedev overcame a poor start to beat Jannik Sinner 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 and reach the Open 13 Provence quarterfinals on Thursday. The U.S. Open runner-up, who lost in the fourth round of the Australian Open last month, dropped his serve twice but broke the Italian’s serve four times. Medvedev, ranked fifth
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1:13 PM ET Associated Press XI’AN, China — The Xi’an Open women’s tennis tournament scheduled for next month in China was canceled Thursday by the WTA because of concerns over the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The hard-court event was supposed to be held April 13-19, with 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams. There would have
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