6:39 AM ET Top seed Gael Monfils beat Serbia’s Filip Krajinovic 7-6(4), 6-2 on Saturday to set up a final showdown with Vasek Pospisil at the Open Sud de France in Montpellier. Monfils, the champion in 2010 and 2014, fired 12 aces and won 39 out of 48 points on his first serve to charge

9:06 PM ET Associated Press EVERETT, Wash. — Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin helped put the United States into the Fed Cup Finals after falling short earlier Saturday night. Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands teamed up for a 6-4, 6-0 doubles victory over Jelena Ostapenko and Anastasija Sevastova to give the U.S. a 3-2 win over

4:22 PM ET Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the New York Open because of a shoulder injury. Kyrgios had moved back into the top 20 of the ATP rankings this week for the first time since August 2018 after a fourth-round appearance in the Australian Open, where he lost

4:46 AM ET “Sometimes you have to set the bar really high, and if you fail it is okay as long you gave it all you had.” – Roger Federer on the importance of sport for children’s development. CAPE TOWN — The bar for The Match in Africa Cape Town on Friday was set high

12:56 AM ET Associated Press EVERETT, Wash. — Nearly five years passed since Serena Williams last played singles in a Fed Cup competition. Even though she struggled for stretches Friday night, Williams remained perfect. Williams improved to 14-0 in Fed Cup singles matches, defeating Jelena Ostapenko in straight sets to give the United States a

12:56 AM ET Associated Press EVERETT, Wash. — Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin beat Anastasija Sevastova 6-2, 6-2 on Friday night to give the United States a 1-0 lead over Latvia in its Fed Cup match. Six days removed from winning her first Grand Slam tournament title, Kenin overwhelmed Sevastova using a pair of breaks

6:00 PM ET Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal faced each other again on the tennis court, and this time, it was for a cause important to both players. The tennis stars took part in an exhibition match Friday in Cape Town, South Africa — billed Match in Africa 6 — to raise money for the

5:39 PM ET Associated Press Roger Federer wasn’t going to lose this one to Rafael Nadal. Not on what felt like a homecoming for Federer, who beat his great rival 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in a three-set exhibition match at a soccer stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday. It was Federer’s first match in

8:00 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPNW Writer MELBOURNE, Australia — With the bulbs of the cameras flashing incessantly around her, Sofia Kenin hoisted the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup on Saturday night at Rod Laver Arena after enamoring audiences around the world with her aggressive play, relentless self-belief and endearing speech about her lifelong dream coming true.

10:43 AM ET Rohit Rajpal will continue as India’s non-playing Davis Cup captain while veteran Leander Paes too has retained his place in the six-member squad picked for the tie against Croatia next month. The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has asked Rajpal to lead the side in the 2020 season. India are scheduled to