Tennis

12:55 PM ET Simon Cambers LONDON — The women’s draw at Wimbledon was torn apart Saturday as world No 1 Iga Swiatek was bounced 6-4, 6-2 by Alize Cornet of France in the third round, ending her 37-match winning streak. Swiatek had won six straight tournaments, including her second French Open title, but found 32-year-old
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5:53 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com LONDON — Venus Williams arrived at Wimbledon last week with no intentions of competing. But then she had a change of heart. “I had no plan to play,” Williams said Friday. “I saw the grass and I got excited.” Her coach reached out to Jamie Murray, a five-time major mixed
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12:11 PM ET ESPN News Services Heather Watson has been through a lot at Wimbledon, and now she has made it through the third round for the first time. Fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari, however, was eliminated. The 121st-ranked Watson, making her 12th appearance at the All England Club in London, advanced to the fourth round Friday
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12:52 PM ET ESPN News Services Defending champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the fourth round at Wimbledon on Friday with a 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Miomir Kecmanovic on Centre Court, while John Isner became the king of aces on the ATP Tour. Djokovic, the six-time Wimbledon champion, has won the past three men’s singles
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5:55 PM ET Associated Press Nick Kyrgios was fined $10,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct in his first-round Wimbledon victory, the largest of the penalties announced so far at the tournament. Kyrgios acknowledged at his news conference after that match that he spit in the direction of a spectator he said was heckling him. On Thursday, the
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1:42 PM ET English wild card Katie Boulter dedicated her second-round 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4 victory over world No.7 Karolina Pliskova to her grandmother, who died Tuesday. Boulter, 25, played out a gruelling two hours with Pliskova and overcame a set deficit to beat the runner-up of last year’s tournament, entering the third round of
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7:15 AM ET Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain has pulled out of Wimbledon after testing positive for COVID-19, becoming the third big name in the men’s singles draw to withdraw after contracting the virus. Croatian Marin Cilic, the 2014 US Open champion and 2017 Wimbledon runner-up, and eighth seed Matteo Berrettini, who lost to Novak
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