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Coco Gauff begins her US Open title defense with an easy win after a two-match losing streak

Aug. 27, 2024 00:06 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The chant rang out in cavernous Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday at the U.S. Open before Coco Gauff's first service game of her first match of her first Grand Slam tournament as a defending champion: “Here we go, Coco! Here we go!” Coming to Flushing Meadows off a...

Djokovic and Alcaraz are on opposite sides of the US Open draw and could only meet in the final

Aug. 22, 2024 12:40 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Defending champion Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz wound up on opposite sides of the U.S. Open bracket in Thursday's draw, meaning they could meet in another big final after Wimbledon and the Paris Olympics. For that to happen, the No. 3-seeded Alcaraz might first...

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek, Jannik Sinner advance in Cincinnati Open

Aug. 14, 2024 23:40 PM EDT

MASON, Ohio (AP) — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek survived in her return to hard courts Wednesday night in the Cincinnati Open, outlasting Varvara Gracheva 6-0, 6-7 (8), 6-2. Playing for the first time since finishing third for Poland in the Paris Olympics on clay, Swiatek set up a...

2-time French doubles champ Caroline Garcia leads France tennis team at Olympics

Jun. 21, 2024 14:42 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Two-time French Open doubles champion Caroline Garcia was selected in the France tennis team for the Paris Olympics on Friday but not her frequent partner Kristina Mladenovic. Garcia and Mladenovic won at Roland Garros — the Olympic venue next month — in 2016 and...