Tennis

6:56 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Fourth-seeded American Maxime Cressy rallied to win his first career ATP Tour title, beating No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) on Sunday in the Hall of Fame Open. After knocking out four-time Newport champ John Isner in the semifinals a day earlier,
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2:57 PM ET Croatia’s Petra Martic defeated Serbia’s Olga Danilovic 6-4, 6-2 to capture her second career WTA Tour singles title at Open Lausanne on Sunday. Martic reached the fourth round of the women’s singles at last week’s Wimbledon Championships and brought her superb form to Lausanne, Switzerland, where she dropped just a single set
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3:20 PM ET United States’ Bernarda Pera defeated Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunic in straight sets by 6-3, 6-3 to win the Hungarian Grand Prix title on Sunday. Pera, who entered the main draw of the tournament as a qualifier, did not drop a set this week as she eased to her first WTA Tour singles title.
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Jul 17, 2022 Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo defeated fellow country-men Sebastian Baez in straight sets by 7-6(4), 6-2, to clinch his maiden title at the Nordea Open on Sunday. Cerundolo, playing in just his second ATP Tour singles final, dropped serve in the opening game of the first set, but the 23-year-old recovered well as he
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6:20 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Fourth-seeded Maxime Cressy ended John Isner‘s 10-match winning streak on Newport’s grass courts, beating the fellow American 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the Hall of Fame Open final. Cressy will face No. 3 seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan. Bublik beat Jason Kubler of Australia
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7:54 PM ET Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. — Lleyton Hewitt paused for a moment and the word easily came to mind when he was asked how he wanted to be remembered. “Competitor,” Hewitt said in an interview with The Associated Press earlier in the day before his induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame
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4:27 PM ET Associated Press Sebastian Baez reached the Swedish Open final on Saturday with a straight-sets win over Andrey Rublev. It will be an all-Argentina final after Baez’s 6-2, 6-4 success in one hour, 16 minutes. Baez broke the Russian twice in the opening set and decisively in the 10th game of the second
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6:49 AM ET TORONTO — Serena Williams has decided to compete next month in Toronto, having returned to action two weeks ago at Wimbledon after a year away from competition, tournament organizers said Thursday. Williams, who suffered a second straight Wimbledon first-round exit this year, elected to use her protected ranking to enter the main
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5:23 AM ET Former world No. 1 Ash Barty has no regrets about retiring from tennis in March age 25 and does not plan to start playing golf professionally, ending speculation that she would now focus her career on that sport. Barty sent shockwaves around the tennis world when she unexpectedly announced her retirement at
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