Tennis

4:46 PM ET Associated Press STUTTGART, Germany — Jelena Ostapenko swept past Emma Raducanu 6-2, 6-1 at the indoor clay Porsche Grand Prix on Tuesday for the British player’s second consecutive first-round loss. In a meeting of two former Grand Slam champions, the 2017 French Open winner from Latvia broke Raducanu twice in the first
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12:56 PM ET Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz opened his title defense at the Barcelona Open with a comfortable 6-3, 6-1 win over Nuno Borges on Tuesday. The top-seeded Alcaraz, No. 2 in the world, converted five of his seven break opportunities to secure the win at the Rafa Nadal center
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12:08 PM ET ESPN News Services Andrey Rublev made the most of Holger Rune‘s nerves to win a seesaw Monte Carlo final 5-7, 6-2, 7-5 on Sunday and finally be rewarded with a Masters title. The fifth-seeded Rublev stayed composed when it mattered to eventually run down his 19-year-old opponent and claim the most prestigious
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4:45 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — Fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev reached the Monte Carlo Masters final for the second time after rallying to beat eighth-seeded American Taylor Fritz 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 in a rain-interrupted contest on Saturday. The Russian player, who lost in the final two years ago, goes for his 13th career title and
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5:18 PM ET Associated Press After helping the Czech Republic to a 2-0 lead over Ukraine in their Billie Jean King Cup qualifier, Barbora Krejcikova announced Friday that she would be donating her prize money to help earthquake relief efforts in the host country. The matches were held in Antalya, Turkey. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake
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8:59 AM ET ESPN News Services American Taylor Fritz upset two-time defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-4 to reach the Monte Carlo Masters semifinals Friday. Second-seeded Tsitsipas was on a 12-match winning streak on the French Cote d’Azur, where he claimed his two Masters 1000 titles. “I stuck to the strategy of pulling the trigger
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