Tennis

11:04 AM ET ESPN News Services Ash Barty earned her second career Grand Slam title with a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-3 win over Karolina Pliskova in the Wimbledon final Saturday. The top-seeded Barty, who won the French Open in 2019, became the first Australian woman to win the Wimbledon title since Evonne Goolagong in 1980.
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11:16 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — For about 20 minutes Wednesday at Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic was not quite his indomitable, infallible self. After racing to a 5-0 lead at the outset, he dropped three consecutive games to his unheralded quarterfinal opponent, 48th-ranked Marton Fucsovics. He wasted five set points in the process, too. Soon
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11:19 AM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — Karolina Pliskova‘s tennis success is predicated on a big serve, which rewards her with plenty of easy points and can get her out of trouble when needed. Thanks largely to that stroke, she is headed to the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time. Pliskova claimed 24 of
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4:41 PM ET Kathleen McNamee Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic will meet compatriot Ash Barty in the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Tuesday after Britain’s Emma Raducanu retired from their round of 16 match on Monday. Tomljanovic was one set up over the 18-year-old and had broken her serve in the second when a medical timeout was called. 2
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12:39 PM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — Coco Gauff‘s Wimbledon run has ended in the fourth round again after the 17-year-old American lost to former Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber 6-4, 6-4 on Centre Court. It is the second time she has lost at that stage, including in her breakthrough run at the All England
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1:45 PM ET Kathleen McNamee LONDON — Tunisian football chants, not a common occurrence on the British courts, were ringing around Wimbledon on Monday as Ons Jabeur made history once again, beating No. 7 seed Iga Swiatek to become the first Arab woman to make it to the quarterfinals. Jabeur’s run at Wimbledon has been
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