Tennis

11:44 AM ET Neither Daniil Medvedev nor Coco Gauff will finish No. 1 for the year or win a Grand Slam singles title. Unlike Medvedev, Gauff won’t even get to play in her year-end championships, which is restricted to the eight top-ranked singles players. But make no mistake, Gauff and Medvedev are on their way
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9:08 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Roger Federer says he plans to play at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Swiss great, a four-time Olympian, says “at the end of the day my heart decided I would love to play at the Olympic Games again.” Federer made the announcement in Tokyo during at an exhibition
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10:20 AM ET Associated Press American teenager Coco Gauff won her first WTA tour title by beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 on Sunday to lift the Linz Open trophy. Gauff, 15, who reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and third round at the US Open, bounced back after losing a one-sided second set to
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6:42 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Daniil Medvedev extended the form that made him the hottest player in men’s tennis when he captured the Shanghai Masters title with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Alexander Zverev on Sunday. The third-seeded Medvedev picked up his third title in six consecutive finals played since the tour returned
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10:09 AM ET Coco Gauff has reached her maiden WTA tour final after defeating No. 8 seed Andrea Petkovic in the Linz Open Saturday. The American teenager secured a 6-4, 6-4 straight sets victory in Austria in a match which lasted just over an hour and 30 minutes. Gauff, 15, won 71 percent of points
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8:06 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Third seed Daniil Medvedev flexed his muscles Saturday to reach a final for the sixth consecutive time at the Shanghai Masters. The Russian, through to his ninth final of the year, outlasted sixth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 7-6 (5), 7-5. Medvedev has won a tour-best 58 matches
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11:31 AM ET Teenage American Coco Gauff beat top seed Kiki Bertens in the quarterfinals of the Linz Open in Austria on Friday, reaching her maiden WTA tour semifinal in the process. Gauff, 15, beat world No. 8 Bertens in straight sets 7-6(1), 6-4 in a closely fought match to advance to the final four.
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9:38 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic went from perfectly unbeatable to unbelievably beaten in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters. Federer and Djokovic had been a combined 13-0 in Shanghai with a spot in the semifinals on the line, but both lost Friday. Federer saved five match points in
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