9:33 AM ET World No. 1 Simona Halep has withdrawn from the Kremlin Cup after failing to fully recover from a back injury, casting further doubt on her participation in next week’s WTA Finals. Simona Halep is back as the year-end No. 1 for the second year in a row, despite a back injury that

4:49 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Ukrainian twin brothers Gleb and Vadim Alekseenko have been banned from tennis for life and each fined $250,000 for multiple match-fixing and corrupt betting. Independent anti-corruption hearing officer Richard McLaren found the brothers guilty on Monday based on an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit. The 35-year-old brothers

11:51 AM ET Novak Djokovic recently spent a long and stressful period reshaping his life and game. Now his rivals are paying the price because the reinvented champion is dominating once again. “I think you’re seeing the new Novak,” Djokovic told reporters Sunday after winning the Shanghai Masters 1000 without dropping a service game, much

7:53 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — Simona Halep is back as the year-end No. 1 for the second year in a row, despite a back injury that doctors say could lead to a long-term problem. Halep, who won her first major title at this year’s French Open, clinched the year-end top tennis ranking on

3:42 PM ET Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Juan Martin del Potro has fractured his right patella bone in what the Argentine called “a hard blow that leaves me without strength.” Del Potro retired Thursday against Borna Coric at the Shanghai Masters after injuring his knee. Third-seeded Del Potro fell near the end of

9:57 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Novak Djokovic won a record fourth Shanghai Masters title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 13th-seeded Borna Coric on Sunday. The second-seeded Djokovic has won all four Shanghai finals he’s contested in his career (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2018). He previously shared the record of winning three Shanghai

7:30 AM ET 18-year-old Dayana Yastremska defeated Wang Qiang 6-2, 6-1 in the final of the Hong Kong Open to win her first WTA title. Yastremska, the current world No. 102, becomes only the second teenager to win a WTA singles title this season, following Olga Danilovic’s success in Moscow in July. The Ukrainian raced

10:00 AM ET Associated Press Wang Qiang, the best Chinese women’s player in tennis with a ranking of No. 24, will play Ukrainian teen Dayana Yastremska for a third career title at the Hong Kong Open on Sunday. Wang posted two upset victories on Saturday by first finishing her rain-postponed quarterfinal against top-seeded Elina Svitolina

11:13 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Borna Coric upset defending champion Roger Federer and will face Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters final on Sunday. Coric earned passage to the final by taking down the top-seeded Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals on Saturday. “It was one of the best matches of my life,”

9:45 AM ET Associated Press TIANJIN, China — Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova will be looking for her second title of the WTA’s Asian swing when she plays second-seeded Caroline Garcia of France in the Tianjin Open final on Sunday. Top-seed Karolina Pliskova will play second-seeded Caroline Garcia in the Tianjin Open final in China (Photo by Xinyu