Tennis

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 01:39:52 +0000

  Sydney Enriquez hopes to flash top form coming off a break as she shoots for another two-title sweep in the PPS-PEPP Cotabato City national age group tennis tournament, which started Thursday at the Cotabato City Tennis Society courts. Close to 200 players are vying for top honors in various divisions in the Group 2 […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:05:03 +0000

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Lee Duck-hee became the first deaf player to win an ATP match on Monday, making a statement with a straight-sets win over Henri Laaksonen in Winston-Salem. “People made fun of me for my disability. They told me I shouldn’t be playing,” the 21-year-old South Korean said after shrugging off a lengthy rain […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 01:25:43 +0000

CINCINNATI (AFP) – World No. 1 Naomi Osaka and Wimbledon champion Simona Halep battled to three-set triumphs Wednesday at the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters while top seed Ashleigh Barty ousted Maria Sharapova. Reigning US and Australian Open champion Osaka needed more than two hours to outlast Aliaksandra Sasnovich, 7-6 (7/3), 2-6, 6-2. The Japanese […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 04:21:12 +0000

MASON, Ohio (AP) – Going small paid off big for Venus Williams. Tuesday didn’t go as well for sister Serena. On a day when back problems forced the younger Williams to withdraw before her second-round match, Venus Williams reached the third round of the Western & Southern Open with a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) upset […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:29:57 +0000

CINCINNATI (AFP) – Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray said he “did OK” in his first singles match in seven months – a 6-4, 6-4 loss to Richard Gasquet at the Cincinnati Masters on Monday. “I don’t really know what I was expecting, to be honest,” said Murray, sidelined since January by a career-threatening hip […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 06:52:29 +0000

MONTREAL (AFP) – Rafael Nadal needed a set to get adjusted before unloading on Fabio Fognini for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory and a place in the ATP Montreal Masters semi-finals. Nadal, who won his fourth title in Canada a year ago, needed almost two hours on Friday to overcome the Italian veteran who shocked […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:16:52 +0000

MONTREAL (AFP) – Rafael Nadal stepped closer to a record 35th Masters 1000 title on Thursday, dispatching Argentina’s Guido Pella, 6-3, 6-4, Thursday to power into the ATP Montreal quarter-finals. The Spanish world number two has now notched the most wins in the elite series, with his 379th Masters victory surpassing Roger Federer by one. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 02:28:08 +0000

TORONTO (AP) – Serena Williams won her first match since losing the Wimbledon final, beating Elise Mertens of Belgium, 6-3, 6-3, on Wednesday night in the second round of the Rogers Cup. The 37-year-old Williams has won the event three times, all in Toronto. She will face Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova – a 6-4, 6-3 winner […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 02:17:55 +0000

MONTREAL (AP) – Top-seeded Rafael Nadal opened his Rogers Cup title defense Wednesday, beating England’s Daniel Evans, 7-6 (6), 6-4, in a second-round match delayed by rain three ti mes. After rain delays of six and 30 minutes, Nadal fought off two set points in the first-set tiebreaker. Play was stopped for 1 hour, 56 […]