Tennis

10:59 AM ET Garbine Muguruza thrashed fellow Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-3, 6-1 to make the last 16 of the Hong Kong Open. Two-time Grand Slam winner Muguruza dominated from the outset, breaking five times in the straight sets victory. Australian Open organisers are working to determine whether coaching will be allowed during the Grand
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10:26 AM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Li Na has received the most support in the first fan vote for the International Tennis Hall of Fame, followed by Goran Ivanisevic and Mary Pierce. Results of the six-week online balloting for fans were announced Tuesday. The Hall did not say how many people participated. Li
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4:56 PM ET ESPN staff Anna Karolina Schmiedlova won her opening round match in the Linz Open with a convincing 6-1, 6-2 win over tenth seed Natalia Vikhlyantseva. While 2015 Champion, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova made a winning start to her campaign with a hard fought 7-5, 7-5 victory over Viktoria Kuzmova. As the season winds down,
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3:25 PM ET Jelena Ostapenko crashed out of the Hong Kong Open at the first hurdle on Monday, losing 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 to Kristina Kucova. Third-seed Ostapenko had appeared on course for a routine victory after winning the first set of the tournament opener, but world No. 317 Kucova rallied to take the game to
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6:41 AM ET Associated Press SHANGHAI — Sam Querrey and Taylor Fritz both won in straight sets at the Shanghai Masters on Monday, setting up a second-round match between the Americans. Querrey upset ninth-seeded Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-4, while Fritz beat Robin Haase 6-3, 7-6 (3). The 54th-ranked Querrey had 14 aces and won 34
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10:17 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Caroline Wozniacki defeated Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 6-3 to win the China Open and her third WTA title of the year on Sunday. The victory was also the Dane’s second in Beijing, eight years after the first. The unseeded Sevastova downed US Open champion Naomi Osaka in the semifinal
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6:45 AM ET Russian qualifier Daniil Medvedev stunned home favourite Kei Nishikori in the final to claim the Japan Open title after a comfortable 6-2 6-4 victory in Tokyo Sunday. Medvedev came out of the blocks fast and Nishikori, aiming for his third title at this event, could not cope with the big-hitting Russian who
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4:34 PM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Third-seeded Kei Nishikori beat Richard Gasquet 7-6 (2), 6-1 Saturday to reach the final of the Japan Open. Nishikori won 84 percent of first-serve points in front of a home crowd and did not face a break point in the 90-minute win over his eighth-seeded opponent. Nishikori, who
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9:44 AM ET Associated Press BEIJING — Anastasija Sevastova beat US Open champion Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to reach the China Open final. The 20th-ranked Latvian will face Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark in the final. Wozniacki defeated China’s Wang Qiang 6-1, 6-3 in the other semifinal. Osaka, 20, required a medical break in
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