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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...
Townsend and Young reach mixed doubles final, keeping Townsend alive for 2 US Open doubles titles
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Townsend and Donald Young advanced to the U.S. Open mixed doubles final Tuesday, keeping alive Townsend's chance to win two doubles titles at the tournament. Townsend and Young, who is retiring after the tournament, beat the No. 8-seeded team of team of...
US Open: Doubles, like dating, is all about putting together a pair that can go the distance
NEW YORK (AP) — Players at the U.S. Open describe doubles like dating: There's the need to pick a partner, gauge chemistry, and then determine if they'll stick it out for the long haul or go their separate ways — and then maybe get back together. So there was something akin to...
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...
Olympics opening ceremony latest: Celine Dion serenades Paris, and now the Games can begin
PARIS (AP) — The 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony went off with only minor hitches after a rough start to the Summer Games. Following suspected acts of sabotage targeting France’s flagship high-speed rail network, a soggy but celebratory parade down the Seine River brought an official start...
