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By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Saturday, July 29, 2023Tight checks do not scare Elisabetta Cocciaretto.The second-seeded Cocciaretto rallied for a 6-7(3), 7-6(6), 7-5 win over Anna Bondar to succeed in her her second last of the season on the Ladies Open Lausanne.More: Mikael Ymer Banned 18 MonthsRain delayed play and created heavy situations on the crimson clay.Bondar battled by the first-set tiebreaker. In the second set, Cocciaretto asserted her aggression a bit extra knocking off a smash to take the second-set tiebreaker and power a decider.Despite carrying taping round her proper shoulder and left thigh, Cocciaretto was transferring easily within the last set. Pushing Bondar corner-to-corner she provoked an error to interrupt again for 3-3 within the decider.Cocciaretto reele...

By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Saturday, July 29, 2023 Americans on each the ATP and WTA excursions will hope to have a fantastic week in Washington DC on the newly mixed ATP/WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open. Fritz, Tiafoe, and More Americans Hope to Make History in DC   On the ATP aspect, a number of American males will set their sights on changing into the primary U.S. man to win the singles title since Andy Roddick in 2007.   Current World No. 9 Taylor Fritz enters as this yr’s prime seed. He may doubtlessly face three-time main champion Andy Murray within the third spherical. Fourth seed Hubert Hurkacz, sixth seed Alexander Bublik, and the eleventh seed Chris Eubanks are additionally on this part.     The males's singles draw is wanting spicy 🌶 #MubadalaCitiDCOpen pic.twitter...

HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Experienced Dutch participant Arantxa Rus defeated German teenager Noma Noha Akugue 6-0, 7-6 (3) within the remaining of the Hamburg European Open on Saturday for her first WTA tour title. ...

HAMBURG, Germany — German teenager Noma Noha Akugue reached the ultimate on her first time in the principle draw of a WTA Tour match on Friday, persevering with a meteoric rise for a participant ranked 207th on the planet. ...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, July 28, 2023Some of Nick Kyrgios' fiercest feuds are his favourite rivals.The 2022 Wimbledon finalist responded to a big selection of questions from his followers on Instagram.More: Twitter Reacts to Alcaraz's Amazing Wimbledon WinAsked to call his high rivals on tour, Kyrgios replied: "My big rivals on the circuit? Tsitsipas, Nadal and Wawrinka." The mercurial Kyrgios rode his huge serve and main thoughts video games to topple fourth-seeded Tsitsipas 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(7) in a wild, loopy and contentious conflict on the 2022 Wimbledon. Both males had been hit with code violations as Court No. 1 felt just like the octagon at instances.Tsitsipas summed up this tennis tempest of sound and flurry as "a circus."The match noticed Kyrgios d...

PRAGUE — Russian and Belarusian gamers is not going to be allowed to take part in subsequent week’s Prague Open, the organizers of the ladies’s tennis occasion stated Friday. ...

By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Friday, July 28, 2023A Bolivian chair umpire will sit on the sidelines for greater than a decade after committing a number of acts of corruption.Percy Flores has been suspended from tennis for 12 years and fined $15,000 for a number of breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program (TACP), the International Tennis Integrity Agency introduced at this time.More: Twitter Reacts to Alcaraz's Amazing Wimbledon WinFlores, a white badge umpire who didn't contest the ITIA’s expenses, dedicated 31 breaches of the TACP between November 2021 and October 2022.The violations included routine manipulation of scores for betting functions—by purposely getting into the improper rating into the umpire’s handheld system – at ITF World Tennis Tour occasions and soliciti...

COLLEGE PARK — Frances Tiafoe returned dwelling Thursday to the place that helped increase him with a promise to pay it ahead for the subsequent era. ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Frances Tiafoe stood together with his arms on his hips and feigned disappointment Thursday after his companion throughout a doubles drill dumped an overhead into the online. ...

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, July 27, 2023Carlos Alcaraz is a singular expertise with a scary weapon that separates him from Rafael Nadal, says Kei Nishikori.The Wimbledon champion is a pace freak whose lightning-quick courtroom protection can spook opponents, Nishikori instructed ATPTour.com. More: Twitter Reacts to Alcaraz's Amazing Wimbledon WinSeeing Alcaraz's dynamic model of tennis helped encourage his personal comeback, former US Open finalist Nishikori mentioned.“One thing I hope to get the chance to do is to play against these great young players like Alcaraz, Rune and Sinner at some point,” Nishikori instructed the ATPTour.com. “That’s part of my motivation to try to play for a few more years.“I don’t think we have seen anyone like Alcaraz before. He looks ...