Tennis

Connor O’Halloran Jul 30, 2024, 04:29 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Andy Murray continues to stave off his planned retirement from tennis as he and Team GB playing partner, Dan Evans, won their second-round match in the Paris Olympics men’s doubles tournament on Tuesday. It sees the British pair advance to the quarterfinals

Associated Press Jul 30, 2024, 05:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — For almost five full games at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek‘s high-bouncing topspin shots were being sent back over the net by No. 52 Wang Xiyu of China with crushing baseline groundstrokes of her own. Wang even held

Associated Press Jul 30, 2024, 02:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz are getting the hang of this doubles thing, improving to 2-0 as a team at the Paris Olympics and moving into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-7 (2), 10-2 match tiebreaker victory over Tallon Griekspoor and Wesley

ESPN News Services Jul 30, 2024, 02:07 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Select doubles teams will wear microphones in competitive matches for the first time at this week’s Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington as part of a trial to enhance the fan experience, the ATP said Monday. While players commonly wear microphones at exhibition

Associated Press Jul 29, 2024, 06:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTREAL — Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from a US Open tuneup tournament in Montreal after his victory over Rafael Nadal at the Paris Olympics. Djokovic, 37, beat Nadal in straight sets on Monday at Roland Garros to reach the third round at the Summer

ESPN News Services Jul 29, 2024, 09:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Novak Djokovic dominated rival Rafael Nadal at the start then held off a comeback attempt to win 6-1, 6-4 at the Paris Olympics in the second round Monday, the 60th — and likely last — head-to-head matchup between the two tennis

Associated Press Jul 28, 2024, 05:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Coco Gauff is 2-0 so far at the Paris Olympics after adding a 6-3, 6-0 singles victory over Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic on Sunday to a win a day earlier in doubles alongside Jessica Pegula. Gauff also is entered in mixed doubles with

Associated Press Jul 28, 2024, 07:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Rafael Nadal decided to play singles at the Paris Olympics, starting by facing Marton Fucsovics of Hungary in the first round on Sunday, Nadal’s manager, Benito Perez-Barbadillo, told The Associated Press. The 38-year-old Nadal has dealt with a series of injuries the

D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Jul 28, 2024, 09:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LESS THAN TWO hours after his devastating loss in the Wimbledon final, Novak Djokovic was already laser-focused on the rest of the season. Djokovic, 37, had just been defeated by Carlos Alcaraz 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (4), his dreams for a record-breaking 25th major

Jul 28, 2024, 03:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Alex de Minaur has withdrawn from his Olympic singles first round clash with German Jan-Lennard Struff, opting to focus on doubles as he manages his hip injury. The Australian No.1 suffered the injury at Wimbledon, tearing his hip cartilage in the dying moments of his round-of-16

Connor O’Halloran Jul 27, 2024, 02:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The final days of Andy Murray‘s tennis career won’t play out like most of the others that came before. It won’t involve a singles match, nor is it likely that he will make a stirring run to a final or a classic

ESPN News Services Jul 27, 2024, 11:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Novak Djokovic opened his bid for a first Olympic gold medal with a 6-0, 6-1 victory at Roland Garros that could set up a second-round matchup with longtime rival Rafael Nadal. No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, the reigning French Open and

Associated Press Jul 25, 2024, 06:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Top-seeded Novak Djokovic could meet longtime rival Rafael Nadal in the second round of the Paris Olympic tennis tournament. Djokovic was drawn Thursday against Australian Matthew Ebden, and Nadal faces Hungarian Marton Fucsovics, with the winners of those matches meeting in Round

Coley Harvey, ESPN Staff WriterJul 25, 2024, 12:39 PM ET Close Previously covered Florida State for Orlando Sentinel and Georgia Tech for Macon Telegraph Northwestern University graduate Open Extended Reactions PARIS — As the reigning U.S. Open champion and the current No. 2 women’s tennis player globally, Coco Gauff was already going to be fairly

Jul 25, 2024, 12:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Third seed Elena Rybakina became the latest high-profile withdrawal from the Olympic tennis competition Thursday, hours after the draw was made at Roland Garros. Kazakhstan’s former Wimbledon champion has pulled out of the singles and mixed doubles in which she was due to partner

Jul 25, 2024, 06:34 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The focus on gender equity at the Paris Olympics is the latest win in a terrific run of progress for women’s sports, tennis champion and pioneer Billie Jean King told Reuters, as organizers trumpet the progress made for women at the Games. The Paris

Jul 25, 2024, 04:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Andy Murray will retire after his Olympic Games finishes. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Andy Murray has confirmed his singles career is over, withdrawing from the individual event at the Paris 2024 Olympics to focus on the doubles competition with Dan Evans. Two-time Olympic champion Murray had been entered

Jul 25, 2024, 06:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Rio Olympic silver medalist Angelique Kerber, who won three different Grand Slam titles, will retire from tennis after the Paris Games, the German said Thursday. Former world No. 1 Kerber, 36, finished runner-up to Puerto Rican Monica Puig at Rio in 2016 and won the Australian