3:15 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Karolina Pliskova stands head and shoulders above Ash Barty, the woman she’ll face in the Miami Open final on Saturday, in a number of critical ways, including the most obvious: At 6-foot-1, she’s a good half-a-foot taller. Of greater concern, perhaps, to the Barty camp is Pliskova has

1:29 AM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Early in the second set of his quarterfinal win at the Miami Open on Thursday, Denis Shapovalov served and rumbled toward the net. Frances Tiafoe returned and immediately sprinted forward as well. Shapovalov brushed his strings across the bottom of the ball, feathering a perfect drop volley over

1:59 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Ashleigh Barty waited six hours to get her spot in the Miami Open women’s final. Denis Shapovalov needed to pull off yet another comeback to earn his berth into the semifinals. Roger Federer, meanwhile, made winning seem relatively easy. And Simona Halep‘s chance to return to

3:21 AM ET Associated Press PERTH, Australia — The Hopman Cup international mixed team event is making way for the new ATP Cup at the start of the 2020 tennis season in Australia. The International Tennis Federation on Thursday confirmed an early end to the licensing agreement with Tennis Australia for the Hopman Cup, which

10:10 AM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The gunmetal clouds filtered out the sun, leaving Felix Auger-Aliassime and his opponent, Hubert Hurkacz, bathed in tawny sunlight on Court 1 on a mellow Sunday afternoon at the Miami Open. The palm fronds reaching above the court swayed gently like sea fans. But Auger-Aliassime wasn’t feeling the

9:00 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Simona Halep sat in her chair alongside the umpire in Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, leading Qiang Wang 6-4, 6-5 in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open. Halep took deep breaths, her shoulders rhythmically rising and falling. Her arms were sheened with perspiration, her rounded cheeks flushed.

4:38 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Roger Federer is finally through to the quarterfinals of the Miami Open. The fourth-seeded Federer had little trouble defeating 13th-seeded Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-2 in 61 minutes on Wednesday, earning the three-time Miami champion a spot in the quarters against sixth-seeded Kevin Anderson. The Federer-Medvedev match

2:25 AM ET Ashleigh Barty has celebrated her entry to the world’s top 10 with a hoodoo-busting quarter-final triumph over Petra Kvitova at the Miami Open. Barty overcame a two-hour rain delay to down Kvitova 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 6-2 and notch her first win over the dual Wimbledon champion in five meetings. In reversing her

10:53 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Nick Kyrgios was furious. Borna Coric had just broken him in their fourth-round clash on Tuesday in the grandstand at the Miami Open. Coric still trailed, 4-6, 4-2, but now he was back into the match. Kyrgios hurled his racket headfirst into the blue-gray hardcourt. The top splintered

4:21 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, FLa. — Defending champion John Isner advanced to the Miami Open quarterfinals with a 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) win over 19th-seeded Kyle Edmund on Tuesday. Isner pounded 17 aces and lost one service game in the match. He surrendered the ninth game of the first set at love.