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Carlos Alcaraz 'OK' after stopping practice due to ankle issue
World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz fully expects to be ready to play his first-round match on Tuesday at the U.S. Open after suffering an ankle injury on Saturday.,The 21-year-old Spaniard rolled his left ankle stretching for a ball on his backhand and ended his training session early after consulting with ...
Carlos Alcaraz apologizes for racket smash at Cincinnati
World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz made headlines for multiple reasons on Friday, though none of them were good. On Saturday, the Spaniard apologized for the more unfortunate part of his rough day.,After France's Gael Monfils pulled off a major upset by defeating Alcaraz 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 in a weather-inter...
Gael Monfils stuns Carlos Alcaraz at Cincinnati Open
France's Gael Monfils, at age 37, pulled off a major upset Friday by defeating World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz in a second-round match continued from Thursday at the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,The unseeded Monfils knocked off second-seeded Alcaraz 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 after rain suspended the match Thu...
'For Serbia': Emotional Novak Djokovic wins elusive Olympic gold medal
PARIS -- Novak Djokovic completed his career Golden Slam as the 37-year-old Serb fought off Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in a memorable Olympic men's singles final battle at Roland Garros on Sunday.,After heartbreak in Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, Djokovic simply would not be denied the one ...
Novak Djokovic defeats Carlos Alcaraz, wins elusive gold medal
PARIS -- Novak Djokovic completed his career Golden Slam as the 37-year-old Serb fought off Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in a memorable Olympic men's singles final battle at Roland Garros on Sunday.,After heartbreak in Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, Djokovic simply would not be denied the one ...
Carlos Alcaraz tops Frances Tiafoe in 5-set Wimbledon battle
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz clawed back from the brink of elimination at Wimbledon on Friday, defeating Frances Tiafoe 5-7, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to move to the fourth round.,A packed house that included Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes was treated to a three-hour, 51-minut...
ATP roundup: Jack Draper jolts Carlos Alcaraz in London
Jack Draper stunned defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Thursday in the second round of the cinch Championships in London.,Draper, of Great Britain, recorded eight aces and won 82 percent of his first-serve points to dispatch the top-seeded Spaniard in 1 hour and 39 minutes.,Draper ad...
Carlos Alcaraz tops Alexander Zverev to win first French Open
The next great Spaniard has arrived at the French Open.,Third-seeded Carlos Alcaraz came from behind to defeat fourth-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany 6-3, 2-6, 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 in four hours and 19 minutes to win his third Grand Slam title on Sunday -- his first on the clay courts at Roland Garros i...
Carlos Alcaraz advances to third round at French Open
Third-seeded Carlos Alcaraz outlasted Jesper De Jong on Wednesday to advance to the third round of the French Open in Paris.,Alcaraz fended off the feisty 23-year-old qualifier from the Netherlands before winning the match's final five games to capture a 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 victory in 3 hours and 8 m...
USWNT win the most CONCACAF game ever
We realize the enormity of saying “the most CONCACAF game ever,” as this particular region of the soccer world is literally where people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems. Just about anything can happen when the North and Central American Federation is in charge, and boy did it...
Oh, you thought you were different, Lions?
Really thought you’d built something, didn’t you, Detroit Lions? The uniform change, the positivity, the belief, the empty catchphrases, whatever they were. Thought you’d shed that old Honolulu blue-and-silver skin and become something new, something better, didn’t you? Were sure you’d left the deca...
Novak Djokovic had a bad day at the office, for once
If beating Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros is sport’s toughest assignment, beating Novak Djokovic in Melbourne can’t be too far behind it. He hadn’t lost there in some 3,000 days (a COVID deportation playing some role in that), he’s won the tournament 10 times and he was still coming off a previous se...
Novak Djokovic is tennis' unquestioned GOAT. Is there anyone who could catch up to him?
It isn’t a question as to who the male tennis GOAT is anymore. In recent years Novak Djokovic’s almost-robotic dominance as he continues to age has pushed him ahead of his contemporaries and predecessors. One of Djokovic’s greatest challengers to the crown conceded the throne recently when Rafael Na...
Djokovic and Gauff were machines at the US Open
There are a lot of ways to win in tennis. Novak Djokovic has found all of them. Coco Gauff may yet one day, though she found the one for this US Open. While Djokovic has had to vary his game at various points to overcome various challenges, at the base of it all remains the same truth as the day he ...
Coco Gauff will write her own story
When Coco Gauff beat Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2019, a flood of expectations followed considering she was 15, American, Black, and had just ousted tennis royalty. The talent and potential was obvious enough, yet there are too many variables and unknowns to account for that calling anything a fo...
The US Open has been a tough watch the past few days
The US Open used to bill itself as “The World’s Toughest Tennis.” It’s New York, which has to bill anything having to do with itself as the “biggest and toughest” or the city will collapse in on itself. But the Open was on hardcourt, it was at the end of summer so it was hot, and they used to make p...
If you’re not watching Coco Gauff, you’ve got Spectrum
After a week of US Open coverage, two things are apparent: You need to see Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz in person to really appreciate them, and for some tennis fans, that might be the only option. A carriage dispute between Charter Communications and Disney led to the Mouse pulling all its channel...
After 30 years (!!), it is finally time for Venus Williams to call it a career
Unlike at this time last year, the central figure of the US Open isn’t a Williams sister. Serena’s matches were all appointment television, maybe because of the known stakes, being one of tennis’ all-time great’s last event. And Flushing lost its luster after Serena’s third-round exit, until the sta...
Spanish FA President Luis Rubiales is a creep
Update Aug. 24: According to multiple reports, Luis Rubiales plans to resign....
History has its eyes on Carlos Alcaraz and his early quest to become tennis’ GOAT
Tennis is undergoing its Steph Curry moment. The way Carlos Alcaraz controls the country club sport through his racket is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Nearly a decade after Curry’s rise to superstardom, every high school sophomore thinks swishing a 40-footer is routine. It’s not, and every air...