Articles filed under Tennis
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3-time defending champ John Isner advances in AtlantaAug 03, 2016 7:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - John Isner opened his bid for a fourth straight BB&T Atlanta Open title Wednesday night, overpowering France's Adrian Mannarino 6-4, 6-0. "I don't know if...
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Billie Jean King returns to New York with new Empire teamAug 02, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Billie Jean King and her World Team Tennis league have returned to the venue where she won four U.S. Open singles titles. The New York Empire are competi...
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Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka pulls out of Rio OlympicsAug 02, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Two-time major champion Stan Wawrinka pulled out of the Olympics on Tuesday because of injury, leaving the Rio Games without half of the men ranked...
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Kuerten, Brazil's face of tennis, hopes Olympics help hostsAug 02, 2016 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - The face of Brazilian tennis no longer is able to smile on a court. Gustavo Kuerten can't play the game he loves - and that, for years, loved him back. He r...
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New retractable roof ready for start of US OpenAug 02, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The third time was the charm for the new retractable roof over Arthur Ashe Stadium. The U.S. Tennis Association unveiled the $150 million roof over the c...
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Schiavone moves into 2nd round of Jiangxi OpenAug 02, 2016 7:00 am - NANCHANG, China (AP) - Third-seeded Francesca Schiavone defeated Yang Zhaoxuan 6-0, 6-4 in the first round of Jiangxi Open on Tuesday. Former French Open champion Schiav...
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Debates over role linger decades into tennis' Olympic returnAug 01, 2016 7:00 am - All the consternation over whether golf's addition to the Summer Games makes sense raises the question of whether tennis - another individual, professional sport with fo...
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Novak Djokovic beats Kei Nishikori for 4th Rogers Cup titleJul 31, 2016 7:00 am - TORONTO (AP) - Novak Djokovic paused after accepting the Rogers Cup trophy for the fourth time, scanned the stands Sunday at York University's Aviva Centre and asked eve...
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Halep beats Keys 7-6 (2), 6-3 in Montreal finalJul 31, 2016 7:00 am - MONTREAL (AP) - The many red-and-yellow-clad Romanian fans at Uniprix Stadium got what they came for Sunday when Simona Halep beat Madison Keys in the Rogers Cup final. ...
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Simona Halep advances to second straight Rogers Cup finalJul 30, 2016 7:00 am - MONTREAL (AP) - Simona Halep beat Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber 6-0, 3-6, 6-2 on Saturday to advance to the Rogers Cup final for the second straight year. Th...