Articles filed under Tennis
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Former Wimbledon finalist Radwanska retires from tennisNov 14, 2018 6:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Former Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska announced Wednesday she is retiring from tennis after a 13-year career. The 29-year-old Pole, who rea...
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Guatemalan tennis player banned 2 years for match-fixingNov 14, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Guatemalan player Christopher Diaz-Figueroa has been banned from tennis for two years for match-fixing. The Tennis Integrity Unit, which handles corruption...
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Djokovic overcomes illness to progress at ATP FinalsNov 14, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Novak Djokovic overcame an illness - and Alexander Zverev - to advance to the last four of the ATP Finals. Using a tissue to blow his nose between points, ...
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Federer beats Thiem to get back on track at ATP FinalsNov 13, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Sometimes no practice makes perfect - for Roger Federer anyway. After cancelling his training session a day earlier, Federer produced a much-improved perfo...
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Djokovic cruises past Isner in ATP Finals openerNov 12, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The opening matches at the ATP Finals led to a debate over whether conditions at the O2 Arena were trickier than in past years. Novak Djokovic ended it. Th...
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Flustered Federer loses ATP Finals opener to NishikoriNov 11, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Kei Nishikori hit a backhand so good it threw Roger Federer off his game as the 20-time Grand Slam champion earned a code violation before capitulating in ...
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Czechs beat defending champion US 3-0 in Fed Cup finalNov 11, 2018 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Six finals, six victories. The Czech Republic kept its perfect record in the Fed Cup finals by capturing the trophy for the sixth time in eight years by de...
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Towel racks hotly debated amid tennis rule changes in MilanNov 10, 2018 6:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Towels have unexpectedly become a hotly-debated subject in tennis this week. A number of new initiatives are being trialed at the second edition of ATP's Ne...
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Tsitsipas recovers to beat De Minaur and win Next Gen FinalsNov 10, 2018 6:00 am - MILAN (AP) - Top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas recovered from a set down to beat Australian teenager Alex de Minaur and win the second edition of the Next Gen Finals on Satu...
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Czechs lead defending champ US 2-0 in Fed Cup finalNov 10, 2018 6:00 am - PRAGUE (AP) - Barbora Strycova and Katerina Siniakova won their singles for the Czech Republic to take a commanding 2-0 over the defending champion United States in the ...