Tennis

NEW YORK — John McEnroe has COVID-19 and is lacking time as ESPN’s lead tennis analyst for its U.S. Open tv protection. “Unfortunately, after feelin...

NEW YORK — After a rousing tribute from former first woman Michelle Obama, Billie Jean King on Monday celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Open changing into the primary sporting occasion to supply equal prize cash to feminine and male opponents, promising by no means to cease preventing to take care of that hard-won progress. ...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday August 28, 2023This is what they paid for. This is what they need! Taking a web page from a playbook from a bygone period, Stan Wawrinka defeated Yoshihito Nishioka on Tuesday evening in New York to change into the oldest man to achieve spherical two since Jimmy Connors in 1992.The 2016 champion notched a 7-6(5), 6-2, 6-4 victory to set a second-round conflict with Tomas Martin Etcheverry of Spain.31 years after 40-year-old Connors thrilled the New York devoted with a run to the semifinals, 38-year-old Wawrinka will attempt to mild up the New York evening with the identical constructive vitality.“I never forgot why I start playing tennis and what I was dreaming when I was young, is to play US Open, to play those Grand Slams, big tournaments, ATP ...

NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic is again on the U.S. Open and can now be again at No. 1 within the rankings. Djokovic made a successful return after lacki...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday August 28, 2023It could be the finish of the road for John Isner, however the huge prepare hasn’t pulled into station. Isner pushed by means of his first-round contest at his final skilled occasion on Tuesday in New York, defeating Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta, 6-4,6-3, 7-6(1).The 38-year-old will face fellow American Michael Mmoh on Day 4.He says the feelings and the truth that he’s taking part in his final occasion are serving to him to place all of it on the courtroom this 12 months in New York.“It's a little bit emotional,” Isner mentioned. “I think in a sense it's helping me free up a little bit. If I didn't win that match, it would be tough. I'm very resolute in my decision to retire. There's no doubts about that.Isner says he is living ...

NEW YORK — The U.S. Open is loud. “Insane loud,” 2022 semifinalist Frances Tiafoe known as it. There are the planes. The trains. The music at change...

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday August 28, 2023At 36, the milestones maintain coming for three-time main champion Andy Murray.The 2012 US Open champion handed his first take a look at at Flushing Meadows on Monday, easing previous France’s Corentin Moutet to grow to be the ninth man to crack the 200-win plateau on the Grand Slams.Murray, who received 6-2, 7-5, 6-3, units a second-round conflict with Grigor Dimitrov on Day 4 on the Open.The Scot joins a lofty record that features among the biggest gamers in males’s tennis historical past.And he’s solely three behind Pete Sampras:1 Roger Federer 3692 Novak Djokovic 3553 Rafael Nadal 3144 Jimmy Connors 2335 Andre Agassi 2246 Ivan Lendl 2227 Roy Emerson 2108 Pete Sampras 2039 Andy Murray 200 !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)if(f.fbq)retu...

NEW YORK — Venus Williams’ a centesimal profession U.S. Open match produced her most lopsided loss on the Grand Slam event the place she received the trophy in 2000 and 2001. ...

By Erik Gudris | @ATNTennis | Tuesday, August 29, 2023Ons Jabeur, after a troublesome opening spherical match on Day 2 of the US Open, was handled to a good looking rendition of “Happy Birthday,” sung to her by the New York crowd in Louis Armstrong Stadium.Last yr’s ladies’s singles finalist and present No. 5 seed Jabeur battled by well being points and a troublesome opponent in Camila Osorio earlier than securing a 7-5, 7-6(4) victory.During her post-match interview, Jabeur was serenaded in honor of her twenty ninth birthday from a number of days in the past.It was powerful day for the three-time Grand Slam champion, however her humorousness remained intact.“I’m old now, that’s why I didn’t feel so good on the court,” Jabeur joked after the match. “She was playing unbelievable. At so...

NEW YORK — It’s turn out to be a stink on the U.S. Open: a pungent marijuana scent that wafted over an outer court docket, clouded the focus of one of many world’s high gamers and left the impression there’s no place left to flee the unofficial scent of the town. ...