9:00 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — The tennis major season officially ended this weekend, with Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek each winning their first US Open titles. 1 Related It was the first of likely many Grand Slam trophies for Alcaraz, 19, and the third for the 21-year-old Swiatek. Both are now the

7:40 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Walking out for his first Grand Slam final at age 19, Carlos Alcaraz bumped fists with fans leaning over a railing along the path leading to the Arthur Ashe Stadium court. Moments later, after the coin toss, Alcaraz turned to sprint to the baseline for the

10:09 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — The US Open broke its record for attendance, drawing 776,120 fans for the two-week tournament. The previous best was 737,872, set in 2019, the year before the coronavirus pandemic began. Every session was sold out for the first time in Arthur Ashe Stadium, which opened 25

Sep 11, 2022 NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz Lerma always told his grandson that to win tennis matches and to become the best player in the world, it would take “head, heart and courage.” And in the course of the US Open men’s singles final on Sunday, Carlos Alcaraz had to draw on those three

4:05 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova won their first US Open doubles title and third major of the year, completing the career Grand Slam by rallying to beat Americans Caty McNally and Taylor Townsend 3-6, 7-5, 6-1. The Czech Republic team finished an unbeaten season in the majors,

7:01 AM ET There’s more than a US Open title on the line Sunday in New York: The man who wins the final will also become the world’s No. 1 player. Will it be Carlos Alcaraz, the 19-year-old phenom who will look to join Pete Sampras as the only teenage males to win the US

Sep 11, 2022 Alexandra Eala has become Philippines’ first Grand Slam junior champion, after winning the girls’ singles title at the US Open with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Lucie Havlickova. Eala — who currently trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy — entered the Saturday’s final as the underdog with her 10th-seed ranking but rose

6:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — As good as she’s been this year, Iga Swiatek came to the US Open unsure of what to expect. She complained that women use different, slightly lighter, tennis balls than men do at Flushing Meadows, where she’d never been past the fourth round. She was trying to

2:17 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — John Peers had fallen short 31 times in Grand Slam mixed doubles tournaments before finding the perfect partner — right in his own country. Peers and fellow Australian Storm Sanders won the US Open title Saturday by rallying for a 4-6, 6-4, 10-7 victory over the team

8:00 AM ET On Saturday, No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland will take on No. 5 Ons Jabeur of Tunisia. If Jabeur wins, she will become the first African woman in the Open era to earn a Grand Slam singles title. If Swiatek prevails, it will be her third major title, after winning two French