Competing against the backdrop of war and hamstrung by budget constraints, Iran’s tennis team marked small but significant victories at the Asian Games on Sunday as both their women’s players won their opening singles matches. Meshkatolzahra Safi crushed Tajikistan’s Shakhzoda Asimova 6-0, 6-1, while Mandegar Farzami advanced alongside her with a 7-5, 6-3 win over…
World No. 2 Alexander Zverev sealed Team Europe’s record-extending sixth Laver Cup title with a straight-sets victory over American Learner Tien, giving them a 13-5 win against Team World at London’s O2 Arena on Sunday. Team Europe, captained by Yannick Noah, entered the third and final day needing two victories to reclaim the trophy. Sunday’s…
In July they played each other in the Wimbledon final. Now, Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova have teamed up to win the Billie Jean King Cup for Czechia. The sixth-ranked Noskova and eighth-ranked Muchova each won their singles matches on Sunday as Czechia beat Ukraine 2-0 in the final of the women’s team event. Noskova…
Canada’s Leylah Fernandez defeated Australia’s Talia Gibson 7-5, 6-0 on Sunday to win the Singapore Open and secure the sixth WTA title of her career. The world number 31 broke early in the first set, but Gibson twice fought back from a break down to stay level. Fernandez, 24, held firm late, converting her first…
Kimberly Birrell claimed her first WTA title on Sunday, storming to a 6-4, 6-2 victory over fellow Australian Maya Joint in the final of the Korea Open. Birrell, the world number 60, got off to a slow start in Seoul, losing her opening service game to find herself 0-2 behind. But she soon righted the…
Andre Agassi, who famously wrote in his book Open that he always hated tennis, is finally enjoying the sport. Agassi is in his second year as captain of Team World for the Laver Cup and he’s been a source of positive energy on the squad’s bench. Agassi said he appreciates the way he can help…
Carlos Alcaraz saved two match points on his way to a topsy-turvy 6-3, 4-6, 13-11 revenge win over Taylor Fritz as Team Europe took a 7-5 lead in the Laver Cup on Saturday. Fritz’s only career win against Alcaraz came in last year’s edition of the tournament, and at times on Saturday it seemed he…
Elina Svitolina slammed her racket on the court to celebrate earning Ukraine a spot in the Billie Jean King Cup final for the first time Saturday. The seventh-ranked Svitolina had plenty of emotions running through her mind after she beat Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-2 to seal a 2-0 victory over two-time defending champion Italy in…
Tennis draws at the Asian Games were announced on Friday, revealing opponents for the Indian squad participating in the continental games in Aichi-Nagoya. In the men’s singles, Dhakshineswar Suresh, who received a bye in round one, will take on Indonesia’s Gunawan Trismuwantara in the second round. Sumit Nagal, who also received a bye in the…
Leylah Fernandez reached her first WTA final of the year after the Canadian recovered from a poor start to beat Poland’s Maja Chwalinska in the Singapore Tennis Open on Saturday. The sixth seed dropped the first five games of the semifinal against her fifth-seeded opponent but came back strongly to win 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 to…
