Articles filed under Tennis
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Venus Williams holds off Riske, reaches Stanford finalJul 23, 2016 7:00 am - STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Venus Williams is having such a blast with her tennis again at age 36, she has many more tournament titles in mind before she's done. Her next ch...
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Lorenzi beats Basilashvili, is oldest 1st-time ATP winnerJul 23, 2016 7:00 am - KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) - Paolo Lorenzi of Italy became the oldest first-time winner of an ATP event on Saturday after beating Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia 6-3, 6-4 ...
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Siniakova, Siegemund advance to Swedish Open finalJul 23, 2016 7:00 am - BASTAD, Sweden (AP) - Katerina Siniakova ousted defending champion Johanna Larsson 7-5, 6-1 Saturday in the Swedish Open semifinals as the 20-year-old Czech chases her f...
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Top-seeded Feliciano Lopez advances to Swiss Open semifinalsJul 22, 2016 7:00 am - GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) - Top-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain set up a Swiss Open semifinal against Dustin Brown by beating Elias Ymer of Sweden in the quarterfinals on...
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Berlocq, Elias advance to Croatia Open semifinalsJul 22, 2016 7:00 am - UMAG, Croatia (AP) - Carlos Berlocq put aside his poor form in quarterfinals at the Croatia Open to defeat third-seeded Jeremy Chardy of France 6-4, 6-2. The Argentine h...
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Sam Stosur upset by Pegula, whose parents own Bills, SabresJul 22, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A day before the Citi Open started, 2011 U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur spent an hour hitting on court with 173rd-ranked Jessica Pegula. On Friday, in t...
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Lobbing 6-foot-10 Isner, Steve Johnson into Citi Open SFJul 22, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Trailing in a tiebreaker against top-seeded John Isner, Steve Johnson managed to put a 146 mph serve into play and then decided to try something even m...
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Venus Williams reaches Bank of the West semifinalsJul 22, 2016 7:00 am - STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - Top-seeded Venus Williams reached the Bank of the West Classic semifinals, beating 17-year-old wild-card entry CiCi Bellis 6-4, 6-1 in an all-Ame...
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Lorenzi beats Melzer, plays Basilashvili in Kitzbuehel finalJul 22, 2016 7:00 am - KITZBUEHEL, Austria (AP) - Fourth-seeded Paolo Lorenzi missed 12 match points before defeating Gerald Melzer of Austria 7-6 (4), 7-6 (13) on Friday and setting up a fina...
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Integrity unit to investigate 3 Italians for match-fixingJul 21, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Three Italian players will be investigated by world tennis' anti-corruption unit after they were suspended by their national federation for match-fixing. T...