11:41 AM ET Everyone was talking about Elina Svitolina as the WTA Finals were about to get underway, but not the way they are now that she won the title with a gritty three-set win on Sunday over Sloane Stephens. Back then, the “haters” — Svitolina’s word — complained that she had backed into the

7:30 AM ET Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are yet to make a decision on whether they will play an exhibition match in Saudi Arabia, both players told reporters in Paris on Sunday. Saudi Arabia has faced criticism following the recent death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government who died at

12:40 PM ET Associated Press Roger Federer won his 99th career ATP Tour title on Sunday, beating qualifier Marius Copil 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the Swiss Indoors final. A ninth title at Federer’s hometown event in Basel, where he was once a ball boy, matched the nine he won at the Halle grass-court event in

12:10 PM ET Associated Press Kevin Anderson won his second title of the season at the Erste Bank Open on Sunday, sealing his place at next month’s ATP finals. The eighth-ranked Anderson defeated Kei Nishikori 6-3, 7-6 (3), handing his opponent his ninth straight defeat in a final. Anderson, who also won in New York

11:20 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Elina Svitolina secured the biggest title of her career on Sunday, becoming the first Ukrainian player to win the season-ending WTA Finals trophy. The No. 6-seeded Svitolina rebounded from a one-set deficit for a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 win over fifth-seeded Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open champion. Svitolina

1:02 PM ET Kei Nishikori will face Kevin Anderson in the final of the Vienna Open after sealing a straight-sets win over Mikhail Kukushkin in the semifinals on Saturday. No. 5 seed Nishikori broke Kukushkin’s serve once in each set, including in the final game of the opener, as he won 6-4, 6-3 in one

12:59 PM ET World No. 93 Marius Copil will face Roger Federer in the Swiss Indoors final after he shocked Alexander Zverev in the semifinals Saturday. Copil, who entered the tournament in Switzerland as a qualifier, broke world No. 5 Zverev in the final game of the match to secure a 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 win,

11:26 AM ET Associated Press SINGAPORE — Sloane Stephens overcame a terrible start against Karolina Pliskova to win 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 at the WTA Finals on Saturday, setting up a championship match against Elina Svitolina. “I came out here a little bit nervous and I wasn’t quite feeling the ball,” said the fifth-seeded Stephens, who

4:00 PM ET Roger Federer was stretched to the limit by Gilles Simon before overcoming the Frenchman 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-4 to reach the semifinals of his hometown Swiss Indoors tournament. The Swiss needed two-and-a-half hours Friday to finally break his opponent’s resistance as he claimed his 18th successive win at the tournament, which he

4:45 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Top-ranked Rafael Nadal is slated to make his comeback from a knee injury at the Paris Masters next week. No Grand Slam titles are at stake, but the next-best thing, the race for the year-end No. 1, is up for grabs. So who has the advantage? Organizers said