8:59 AM ET Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from next week’s US Open tuneup event in Montreal due to the same abdominal strain that forced him to miss his Wimbledon semifinal last month, he said Friday. Nadal, who is No. 3 in the world rankings, had his quest for a calendar Grand Slam end when he

12:46 AM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE — Coco Gauff held off four-time major champion Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday night to advance to the quarterfinals at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic. Gauff, the No. 6 seed, held all of her serves in the opening set and finished the 45-minute session with three aces.

6:51 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu found herself completely exhausted, physically and mentally, after playing a pair of tiebreakers across nearly three hours on a hot and humid afternoon at the Citi Open on Thursday. “Everything,” the second-seeded Raducanu said afterward, “was tired.” Still, she managed to

4:35 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Novak Djokovic withdrew from the upcoming hard-court tournament in Montreal on Thursday because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and is therefore not allowed to enter Canada. By the same reason, as things stand now, he also will not be able to compete in the US Open later

5:18 AM ET Russian tennis player Daria Kasatkina said she feels more “free” since coming out as gay last month as support poured in for the women’s world No. 12 from her fellow players. Kasatkina said last month that she was inspired to come out after Russian football player Nadya Karpova said she was gay

12:25 AM ET Associated Press SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fourth-ranked Paula Badosa of Spain broke serve twice late in the final set before winning a tiebreak to get past 21-year-old Elizabeth Mandlik 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (5) at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic on Wednesday. Other winners in San Jose were Wimbledon runner-up Ons Jabeur of

8:48 AM ET TAMPA, Fla. — When Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady turned 45 on Wednesday, he joined a very exclusive club: athletes competing at the highest levels of their respective sports at age 45. 2 Related Brady has long said he’d like to play until age 45, which made his 40-day retirement at

11:54 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN JOSE, Calif. — Four-time major champion Naomi Osaka won the first match she has played since May, beating Zheng Qinwen 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 on Tuesday night at the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic. Osaka hit 11 aces and saved 7 of 8 break points in the hard-court tournament that

10:15 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Nick Kyrgios beat American Marcos Giron at the Citi Open on Tuesday, the Australian’s first singles match since reaching the Wimbledon final. Less than a month since reaching his first Grand Slam final before losing to Novak Djokovic, Kyrgios defeated Giron 6-2, 6-3. It won’t help him get

12:17 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com For one memorable set on Monday night in front of a sold-out crowd at the Citi Open, Venus Williams seemed to have rediscovered her former dominance. Battling the lingering heat and humidity of the Washington, D.C., evening — and Canadian qualifier Rebecca Marino across the net — Williams chased down