HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Daniil Medvedev lost his first match since reaching the U.S. Open semifinals as he was beaten 6-4, 6-3 Tuesday by unseeded French player Ugo Humbert in the first round of...
HAMBURG (AP) — Former finalist Andrey Rublev began his Hamburg European Open campaign by defeating American qualifier Tennys Sandgren 6-3, 6-3 on Monday.
PRAGUE (AP) — Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and third-ranked Karolina Pliskova will lead two teams in a charity competition during the coronavirus pandemic.
LONDON (AP) — After seven years of struggles, Rafael Nadal is finally looking like a contender again at Wimbledon.
The top-ranked Spaniard is back in the quarterfinals at the All England Club for the first time since 2011 — and playing a lot like the man who reached his fifth final that year.
"It's true it has been a while," Nadal said about his return to the last eight. "But when I come here, I come here thinking that I can do a good result, no?"
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic will have to do without Tomas Berdych at next week's Davis Cup playoff series at the Netherlands.
Berdych, who helped the country win the 2012 and '13 Davis Cup titles, has been focusing on the ATP tour. Without Berdych, the Czechs lost 4-1 to Australia in the first round.
Czech Republic captain Jaroslav Navratil will also miss veteran Radek Stepanek for the Sept. 15-17 series on indoor clay court at the Sportcampus Zuiderpark in the Hague.
PARIS (AP) — Jack Sock went to the island of Mallorca ahead of the French Open, planning to train with Rafael Nadal. Didn't work out that way.
"It was supposed to be with Rafa," Sock lamented, "until he won Monte Carlo and Barcelona and every tournament he plays."
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jordan Thompson will make his Davis Cup singles debut for Australia against Czech Republic's Jiri Vesely in Friday's World Group opener on hard courts at Kooyong.
Following Thursday's draw, Australian No. 1 Nick Kyrgios will play Jan Satral in the other opening singles match.
Bernard Tomic made himself unavailable. Australia captain Lleyton Hewitt earlier said Tomic's decision was disappointing, "but I'm not going to ... beg guys to play for their country."
PRAGUE (AP) — Tomas Berdych says he won't return to Melbourne next month to play for the Czech Republic in the first round of Davis Cup against Australia.
Berdych, who helped the country win the 2012-13 Davis Cup titles, announced his decision after beating Ryan Harrison 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-2 in the second round of Australian Open.
The 10th-ranked Czech says he wants to focus on the ATP tour.
NEW YORK (AP) — Normally, it takes wins in five full matches to reach a Grand Slam semifinal. Novak Djokovic has made it that far at the U.S. Open by playing only two, because three opponents pulled out of the tournament with injuries.
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Novak Djokovic moved into the U.S. Open semifinals for the 10th consecutive year when No. 9 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga stopped because of a hurt left knee, the defending champion's third opponent to pull out with an injury.
NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe, just maybe, Novak Djokovic will work up a sweat in the U.S. Open's fourth round.
He certainly has not been forced to expend much energy so far.
After playing a total of 31 minutes after the first round, the No. 1 seed and defending champion plays for a berth in the quarterfinals Sunday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium against 84th-ranked Kyle Edmund of Britain.
NEW YORK (AP) — The victory came on clay, and it came 4 1/2 months ago.
It also came at a time when Novak Djokovic seemed virtually unbeatable — something that doesn't seem so certain now.
When Jiri Vesely upset the world's No. 1 player in Monte Carlo in April, Djokovic hadn't lost a completed match since November.
TRINEC, Czech Republic (AP) — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga overcame an early scare to win the opening reverse singles Sunday to give France a 3-1 victory over the Czech Republic in the Davis Cup quarterfinals.
Amid increased security following the deadly attack in the French city of Nice, Tsonga rallied to beat Jiri Vesely 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-5 and earn a spot in the Davis Cup semifinals for France for the second time in three years.