Articles filed under Tennis
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No. 1 seeds Sinner, Swiatek move into the third round at the U.S. Open; Hurkacz and Korda oustedAug 29, 2024 8:16 pm - NEW YORK — Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner flashed their No. 1 form on Thursday with powerful performances that moved them into the third round of the U.S. Open. Swiatek ra...
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Coco Gauff begins her U.S. Open title defense with an easy win after a two-match losing streakAug 26, 2024 9:09 pm - NEW YORK — 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 Sla...
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2024 U.S. Open: Coco Gauff’s rising career hits a bump before she defends her first Grand Slam titleAug 22, 2024 3:30 pm - NEW YORK — Yes, Coco Gauff is a Grand Slam champion. Yes, she's been ranked No. 1 in doubles and No. 2 in singles. Yes, she's already a big star who transcends her sport ...
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Novak Djokovic faces Carlos Alcaraz for the 2024 Olympics men’s gold after beating Lorenzo MusettiAug 02, 2024 6:46 pm - PARIS — Novak Djokovic's surgically repaired knee did not appear to slow him down a bit as he finally reached a Summer Olympics singles final for the first time, defeatin...
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Coco Gauff loses an argument with the chair umpire and a match to Donna Vekic at the Paris OlympicsJul 30, 2024 7:27 pm - PARIS — The scene felt all too familiar to Coco Gauff. An officiating decision she was sure was wrong. A chair umpire who wouldn't listen. Tears streaming down her cheeks...
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Djokovic beats rival Nadal at the Paris Olympics in their 60th and possibly last head-to-head matchJul 29, 2024 8:20 pm - PARIS — Novak Djokovic, who won, and Rafael Nadal, who lost, met at the net and hugged after playing at the Paris Olympics in the 60th — and quite possibly last — install...
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Coco Gauff to be female flag bearer for U.S. team at Olympic opening ceremony, joining LeBron JamesJul 24, 2024 5:21 pm - PARIS — Tennis star Coco Gauff will join LeBron James as a flag bearer for the U.S. Olympic team at Friday’s opening ceremony. Gauff, the reigning U.S. Open champion, is ...
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Carlos Alcaraz wins Wimbledon by beating Novak Djokovic and now owns 4 Slam titles at age 21Jul 14, 2024 1:46 pm - LONDON — For Carlos Alcaraz, there was one brief blip in the Wimbledon men's final against Novak Djokovic on Sunday, one five-point stretch that took him from the verge o...
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Novak Djokovic is 37 and had knee surgery last month but faces Carlos Alcaraz in the Wimbledon finalJul 13, 2024 4:03 pm - LONDON — Not surprisingly, Novak Djokovic was far from convinced he could win Wimbledon when the tournament began less than a month after his surgery to repair a torn men...
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Barbora Krejcikova wins Wimbledon for her second Grand Slam trophy by beating Jasmine PaoliniJul 13, 2024 11:10 am - LONDON — Barbora Krejcikova kept insisting that nobody — not her friends, not her family, not even herself — would believe she won Wimbledon for her second Grand Slam tit...