2:26 AM ET Former world No. 1 Andy Murray will play at next year’s Australian Open in what will be his first Grand Slam singles appearance since undergoing hip surgery, tournament organisers confirmed on Tuesday. Murray, 32, who has finished runner-up at Melbourne Park five times, was knocked out in the first round at last

3:32 PM ET American teenager Coco Gauff has failed to make the main draw at the Linz Open in Austria after being beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch in the second round of qualifying. Gauff, ranked 20 places above her opponent in the WTA rankings, was playing in her first tournament since advancing to

9:16 AM ET Barely an hour after Roger Federer suffered that heartbreaking loss to rival Novak Djokovic in July’s epic Wimbledon final, he was asked how he would process and rebound from failing to convert two match points and losing the historic match. “[It will be] similar to getting broken when serving for the match,”

12:37 PM ET SHANGHAI — It took a successful complex hip resurfacing operation to return Andy Murray to a pain-free existence with the possibility of restoring his tennis career. Interestingly, it was only with that occurrence the three-time Grand Slam champion — and former world No. 1 — understood he didn’t need to play tennis

11:48 AM ET ESPN News Services Top-seeded Austrian Dominic Thiem beat Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 to win the China Open on Sunday. Fifth-ranked Thiem, 26, recorded his fourth title in a season in which he has defeated both Roger Federer and top-ranked Novak Djokovic. He called the match against the third-seeded Tsitsipas one

9:21 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — A surging Naomi Osaka won her second consecutive final with a three-set victory over top-seeded Ashleigh Barty at the China Open on Sunday. Osaka bounced back from a set down to cruise through the final sets, defeating the Australian top seed 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. That follows the two-time

7:21 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Top seeds Dominic Thiem and Ashleigh Barty are through to the finals of the China Open in Beijing. Austrian Thiem will face Germany’s second-seeded Alexander Zverev or Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas in Sunday’s final, while Australian Barty meets two-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka of Japan, who downed defending

7:16 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Novak Djokovic has been in dominant form at the Japan Open. That bodes well for the top-ranked Serb’s chances of winning the gold medal at next year’s Olympics. Playing on the same court that will host the tennis tournament at the Tokyo Olympics, Djokovic beat third-seeded David Goffin

8:30 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Andy Murray‘s run at the China Open is over. The former No. 1, who had won consecutive singles matches for the first time since undergoing hip surgery in January, lost to top-seeded Dominic Thiem 6-2, 7-6 (3) Friday in the quarterfinals. Thiem broke the 32-year-old Murray in the

3:22 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Showing no lingering effects of a shoulder injury, Novak Djokovic coasted into the semifinals of the Japan Open on Friday with a straight-sets win over Lucas Pouille. Top-ranked Djokovic, who is attempting to win a title on his tournament debut for the 10th time, needed onlyt 50 minutes