5:58 PM ET ESPN staff Gilles Simon beat his fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet at the ninth attempt with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 victory at the Moselle Open on Friday. Gasquet had won all eight of their encounters before this meeting, and with Simon arriving in Metz out of form it was expected to be win

2:42 PM ET Yulia Putintseva secured her place in the final of the Guangzhou Open with a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Bernarda Pera. Pera, who had knocked out fourth seed Aleksandra Krunic in the previous round, was no match for fifth seed Putintseva. It meant that the WTA World No.61 gained a little revenge for

6:45 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka advanced to the semifinals of the Pan Pacific Open by beating Barbora Strycova 6-3, 6-4 on Friday. The third-seeded Osaka converted all three of her break points and won 80 percent of points on her first serve. She will next face either Camila

8:49 PM ET CHICAGO — Roger Federer is contemplating a significant change to his 2019 schedule. Federer, who credited much of his resurgence since the start of 2017 in which he won three majors to a decision to avoid the entire European clay-court segment (including the French Open), might return to the red-dirt grind next

1:14 PM ET Fresh from sending sixth seed Viktoria Kuzmova out of the Guangzhou Open in the last 16, America’s Bernarda Pera has mounted another upset to send fourth seed Aleksandra Krunic out of the tournament after mounting a comeback against the Serbian. Pera, who is ranked 82nd in the world, dropped the first set,

3:50 PM ET Kei Nishikori is through to the quarterfinals of the Moselle Open after easing past defending champion Peter Gojowczyk in straight sets. In what was Nishikori’s first match since making the semifinals of the US Open, the world No. 12 was taken to a tiebreaker for the first set — in which he

1:52 PM ET Associated Press Stan Wawrinka continued his injury comeback with a hard-fought win over Karen Khachanov to reach the quarterfinals of the St. Petersburg Open on Wednesday. Wawrinka saved two set points in each set on his way to winning 7-6 (10), 7-6 (1) over the fourth-seeded Khachanov, who at No. 24 is

11:57 AM ET America’s Christina McHale is out of the Guangzhou Open after being beaten in straight sets by fourth seed Alekandra Krunic. McHale, the world No. 114, was comprehensively outplayed by Krunic as she went down 6-3, 6-3 to the Serbian. Krunic was beaten in the final of last year’s Guangzhou Open by Zhang

10:06 PM ET Associated Press TIANJIN, China — Maria Sharapova says she will end her 2018 season early, and she is withdrawing from the China Open in Beijing, the Tianjin Open and the Kremlin Cup in Moscow due to her recovery from a right shoulder injury. “I will miss competing at each of these tournaments,

4:46 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Defending champion Damir Dzumhur advanced to the second round of the St. Petersburg Open by beating Austrian qualifier Lucas Miedler 7-5, 6-3 on Tuesday. Dzumhur came from 3-0 down in the opening set, winning 10 of the following 12 games to establish control. There’s always next