Articles filed under Tennis
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Davis Cup: Paire and Pouille give France 2-0 lead vs SpainSep 14, 2018 7:00 am - LILLE, France (AP) - Benoit Paire overcame nerves to win on his Davis Cup debut and Lucas Pouille won a five-set battle as the pair gave defending champion France a 2-0 ...
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Hsieh beats Minella to advance at Japan Women's OpenSep 13, 2018 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Second-seeded Hsieh Su-wei advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Women's Open by beating Mandy Minella 6-3, 6-2 Thursday. Hsieh won 10 of the last 13 g...
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Osaka's US Open win re-opens identity discussion in JapanSep 13, 2018 7:00 am - YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - Naomi Osaka's victory in the U.S. Open has added her to a growing list of athletes, Nobel Prize winners, and beauty pageant contestants who have r...
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US Davis Cup players try to stay out of Williams controversySep 13, 2018 7:00 am - ZADAR, Croatia (AP) - The men on the United States' Davis Cup team are treading very carefully over Serena Williams' insinuation that sexism played a role in the code vi...
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Paire to open for France against Spain in Davis CupSep 13, 2018 7:00 am - LILLE, France (AP) - Benoit Paire will debut for France in the Davis Cup semifinals on Friday, two years after being sent home from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Paire wa...
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Grand Slams to continue seeding 32 playersSep 13, 2018 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Grand Slam tournaments will continue to seed 32 players. The Grand Slam Board announced on Thursday that it has given up its earlier-stated intention to re...
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US Open chair umpire Carlos Ramos says he is 'fine'Sep 12, 2018 7:00 am - LISBON, Portugal (AP) - The chair umpire who penalized Serena Williams in the U.S. Open final has spoken publicly for the first time since the match, saying he is "fine....
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Sock injured, out of US team for Davis Cup semifinalsSep 12, 2018 7:00 am - ZADAR, Croatia (AP) - Jack Sock is out of the United States team for the Davis Cup semifinals against Croatia because of a hip injury and has been replaced by Ryan Harri...
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Newspaper reprints controversial cartoon of Serena WilliamsSep 12, 2018 7:00 am - MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A cartoon of Serena Williams that has been widely condemned as a racist depiction of the tennis great has been partially reprinted on the fro...
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Anisimova reaches quarterfinals at Japan Women's OpenSep 12, 2018 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Amanda Anisimova advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Women's Open by beating seventh-seeded Zheng Saisai 6-1, 6-1 Wednesday. The 17-year-old American...