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Errani and Vavassori win US Open mixed doubles title in Young's final match before retiring
NEW YORK (AP) — Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori won the U.S. Open mixed doubles title with a 7-6 (0), 7-5 victory Thursday over Taylor Townsend and Donald Young, who fell just short of a Grand Slam title in his final match before retiring. Errani, who won a career Grand Slam in...
Jannik Sinner never gives US Open opponent hope of an upset like those against Djokovic and Alcaraz
NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner never gave his third-round opponent at the U.S. Open on Saturday, Chris O'Connell, even a moment to contemplate pulling off the sort of monumental upset that eliminated Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz. “It shows that this sport is unpredictable....
A US Open match lasts only 3 points when Karolina Pliskova stops against Paolini with an injury
NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. Open match between a pair of two-time Grand Slam finalists lasted only three points on Thursday, when former No. 1 Karolina Pliskova injured herself and had to stop playing against Jasmine Paolini. The score in the second-round contest was 15-all, with...
Andreeva and Shnaider, part of AIN, are the first Russians to get a medal at the 2024 Olympics
PARIS (AP) — The first medal for any Russian athlete at the 2024 Olympics — technically not representing their country, but competing as neutrals, because of the war on Ukraine — came in tennis on Sunday, when Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider got a silver in women's doubles. ...
Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo win the Olympic women's tennis doubles bronze for Spain
PARIS (AP) — Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo won the women's tennis doubles bronze medal for Spain at the Paris Olympics — just their second event as a team — by defeating Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday. Bucsa and Sorribes...
Russian tennis players Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider give AIN a shot at gold in women's doubles
PARIS (AP) — Russian players Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider gave the group competing as Individual Neutral Athletes, known by the French acronym AIN, a chance of a tennis gold medal at the Paris Olympics by winning Friday to reach the women's doubles final. Andreeva, who is 17,...
Journalist associations condemn sexist radio comments at Olympic tennis
PARIS (AP) — The French association of women sports journalists and the union of sports journalists in France have condemned sexist comments made on national radio during a women’s tennis match at the Paris Olympics, where a commentator used stereotypical cliches about housewives to describe a...
Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova returns to the top 10, and Carlos Alcaraz stays at No. 3
LONDON (AP) — Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova returned to the WTA's top 10 for the first time in six months on Monday, and runner-up Jasmine Paolini rose to a career-best No. 5. Krejcikova's run to her second Grand Slam title, capped by a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Paolini on...
Barbora Krejcikova had no idea she could win Wimbledon, so how can she know what comes next?
LONDON (AP) — Barbora Krejcikova points out that she couldn't possibly have known she could claim a Grand Slam singles title — until, that is, she actually did, three years ago at the French Open. So it stands to reason — as Krejcikova mentioned to a small group of reporters at...
Barbora Krejcikova wins Wimbledon by beating Jasmine Paolini for her second Grand Slam trophy
LONDON (AP) — At age 18, a decade before Barbora Krejcikova won Wimbledon on Saturday, she was done with junior tennis and couldn't decide whether to pursue a professional tennis career or move on, go to school and find a different path. So Krejcikova wrote a letter to one of her...