1:40 PM ET Associated Press Andy Murray‘s singles comeback hit another roadblock as he lost 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Alex De Minaur of Australia in the second round of the Zhuhai Championships on Thursday. Murray won his first tour-level match since having hip surgery in January when he beat Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday but couldn’t

1:40 PM ET Associated Press Andy Murray‘s singles comeback hit another roadblock as he lost 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Alex De Minaur of Australia in the second round of the Zhuhai Championships on Thursday. Murray won his first tour-level match since having hip surgery in January when he beat Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday, but couldn’t

11:44 AM ET Associated Press WUHAN, China — Top-ranked Ash Barty reached the semifinals of the Wuhan Open for the third straight year by beating Petra Martic of Croatia 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-3 on Thursday. Barty won 15 straight points to take a 4-1 lead in the first set before Martic fought back, and the

5:24 AM ET Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has received a suspended 16-week ban and $25,000 fine from the ATP following an outburst at the Cincinnati Masters in August. The penalties, which were administered due to “aggravated behaviour”, are deferred pending Kyrgios’ compliance with certain conditions over a six-month period. 1 Related Kyrgios, 24, was

2:35 PM ET Roger Federer never really intended to turn tennis on its ear when he conceived the Laver Cup. But in its three short years of existence, the event has overflowed its mandate to serve as a “weekend festival” (Federer’s words) linking past and present-day players. The Laver Cup, which ended Sunday, has quickly

7:54 AM ET Associated Press WUHAN, China — Top-ranked Ash Barty advanced to the Wuhan Open quarterfinals for the third straight year with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Sofia Kenin on Wednesday. Barty fell behind 5-3 in the second set but saved two set points against her American opponent and won four straight games to

3:51 AM ET A Japanese comedy duo and their management company have apologised after the pair reportedly said during a live event that Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka “needed some bleach”. Japanese media said the duo, known as A Masso, made the remark during an event Sunday, the same day that Osaka lifted the Pan

12:14 PM ET Associated Press ZHUHAI, China — Andy Murray won his first tour-level match since January on Tuesday, beating American opponent Tennys Sandgren 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-1 in the Zhuhai Championships. Murray, the former top-ranked player who had hip surgery in January, served 13 aces, won 80 percent of his service points and was

11:40 AM ET Associated Press WUHAN, China — Top-ranked Ash Barty came from a set down to beat Caroline Garcia of France 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 Tuesday in the second round of the Wuhan Open. Garcia beat Barty in the 2017 Wuhan final, but the Australian No. 1 managed to cut down on her mistakes after

9:24 AM ET Associated Press WUHAN, China — Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber and Anastasija Sevastova all fell to unseeded opponents in the first round of the Wuhan Open on Monday. The 13th-seeded Wozniacki lost to Su-Wei Hsieh of Taiwan 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2. Hsieh lost the first-set tiebreaker but hit her stride in the second