12:35 PM ET Associated press BERLIN — Qualifier Liudmila Samsonova completed a remarkable week by beating Belinda Bencic 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 to win the German Open on Sunday. Samsonova rallied after losing the opening set and hit 14 aces to on her way to her first ATP Tour title at the grass-court Wimbledon warm-up tournament.
12:53 PM ET Italian top seed Matteo Berrettini marked himself down as a genuine Wimbledon threat after beating Britain’s Cameron Norrie 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3 to win the Queen’s Club title on Sunday. The 25-year-old used his huge serve and forehand to great effect once again to claim his fifth career title and become the first
12:47 PM ET Valtteri Bottas does not believe he was too harsh in how he criticized Mercedes’ strategy at the French Grand Prix, which he thinks cost him a chance at victory. Red Bull’s decision to pit Max Verstappen a second time ultimately forced Mercedes to leave both Lewis Hamilton and Bottas out until the
11:10 AM ET Associated Press HALLE, Germany — Ugo Humbert defeated Andrey Rublev 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Halle Open final for the biggest title win of his career Sunday. The French player, who won ATP 250 events in Antwerp and Auckland last year, hit nine aces and saved both break points he faced to
Jun 18, 2021 Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Ryan Preece won the first NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway in a decade by scoring a victory in his first career Truck Series start. Preece got in a truck for the first time to get bonus track time ahead of Sunday’s Cup race, the first ever for
Deepti Sharma‘s failed slog-sweep at the stroke of lunch on day four was just the kind of cautionary tale Smriti Mandhana had bemoaned a day earlier, after she herself “threw” her wicket away in the same innings, at the same juncture. Sharma’s wicket in the last over of the opening session triggered a second collapse
Jun 18, 2021 Formula One will seek to avoid a scenario where a new points-paying Saturday sprint race format being trialled this season could decide the title, according to managing director Ross Brawn. The sport wants to host three sprint races in 2021, with the first at Silverstone in July and the second scheduled for
8:05 AM ET Associated Press Christian Eriksen surprised the Denmark team with a visit in the middle of a training session and then gave them all a hug, his teammates said on Saturday. Eriksen was discharged from a Copenhagen hospital on Friday and immediately went to see his teammates at their European Championship base camp
1:00 AM ET The game could’ve been a movie, the action on the sidelines a soap opera and the dialogue between Kevin Durant and his longtime friend P.J. Tucker a stage play. But for all the drama that spilled on the floor Saturday night in an epic overtime Game 7 that saw the Milwaukee Bucks
Jun 17, 2021 LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Justin Fields has bought into the Chicago Bears‘ plan. Fields, drafted 11th overall by the Bears this year, said on Thursday that he embraces the developmental timeline set for him by the organization. Head coach Matt Nagy said earlier in the week that — barring an injury or