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Coco Gauff searching for top form as she opens U.S. Open title defense
Coco Gauff isn't exactly in prime form as she prepares to becomes the first woman to win consecutive U.S. Open titles since Serena Williams won three straight from 2012-14.,The 20-year-old Gauff opens play Monday against France's Varvara Gracheva after a troublesome summer.,Gauff was sent home in th...
U.S. Open men's, women's draws released
The next showdown between Jannik Sinner of Italy and Carlos Alcaraz of Spain could come in the semifinals of the U.S. Open.,The men's and women's singles draws for the final Grand Slam event of the season were released on Thursday, and Sinner and Alcaraz are on the same side of the bracket as the No...
Jelena Ostapenko cools down Paula Badosa in Toronto
Fourth-seeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia delivered 28 winners while posting a 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2 victory over Spain's Paula Badosa in the second round of the National Bank Open in Toronto.,Ostapenko converted 5 of 6 break points while snapping Badosa's six-match winning streak. Badosa won last week's...
Women's favorites melt in Paris; Germans have their day
PARIS -- American Coco Gauff's hopes of singles gold at the Olympics evaporated in the third round in a 7-6 (7), 6-2 to defeat at the hands of Croatia's Donna Vekic in furnace-like conditions at Roland Garros on Tuesday.,Defending Olympic champion Alexander Zverev kept cool in soaring temperatures t...
Croatia's Donna Vekic downs Coco Gauff in Paris
PARIS -- American Coco Gauff's hopes of singles gold at the Olympics evaporated in the third round in a 7-6(7), 6-2 to defeat at the hands of Croatia's Donna Vekic in furnace-like conditions at Roland Garros on Tuesday.,The 20-year-old United States' second seed held a 5-2 lead in the opening set bu...
No. 19 Emma Navarro sweeps No. 2 Coco Gauff out of Wimbledon
No. 19 seed Emma Navarro continued her breakout season Sunday by dispatching No. 2 seed Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-3 at Wimbledon to reach the first Grand Slam quarterfinal of her career.,Navarro controlled the round of 16 match against her fellow American while winning in just 74 minutes. She will face seve...
Naomi Osaka wins at Wimbledon for first time since 2018
Naomi Osaka's first Wimbledon match in five years was a victory, and she was just relieved to get into the second round.,Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, notched a 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 victory over Diane Parry of France on Monday in her first-round match at the All England Club in London.,Osaka had ...
Coco Gauff to lead U.S. tennis squad in Paris
World No. 2 Coco Gauff will anchor the U.S. tennis team at this summer's Olympics in Paris.,The reigning U.S. Open champion missed the Tokyo Games because of a COVID-19 infection.,Gauff, 20, was a finalist at the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros, site of the Olympic competition which begins July 27...
Coco Gauff claims French Open doubles title
Coco Gauff captured her first Grand Slam doubles title Sunday, winning the French Open final in straight sets with partner Katerina Siniakova.,Gauff, 20, and her teammate from the Czech Republic defeated Italians Jasmine Paolini and Sarra Errani 7-6 (5), 6-3 in Paris.,Gauff, the 2023 U.S. Open singl...
Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff to meet in French Open semifinals
No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek and No. 3 Coco Gauff will clash in the French Open semifinals after winning in different ways on Tuesday.,Swiatek, the two-time defending champion from Poland, crushed reigning Wimbledon champ Marketa Vondrousova 6-0, 6-2 in 62 minutes. Swiatek, who also won at Roland Garros i...
Danielle Collins, Madison Keys sew up U.S. Olympic spots
Danielle Collins and Madison Keys mathematically wrapped up United States' singles spots for the 2024 Summer Olympics on Monday when Emma Navarro lost her round of 16 French Open match against Aryna Sabalenka.,No. 10-ranked Collins and No. 12 Keys held solid leads over the 24th-ranked Navarro enteri...
Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff dominant en route to French Open quarters
Top seed Iga Swiatek of Poland, third-seeded Coco Gauff and Czech Marketa Vondrousova, the fifth seed, all posted sweeps Sunday to move into the quarterfinals of the French Open.,The trio of reigning Grand Slam titleists each beat an unseeded opponent at Roland Garros in Paris.,Swiatek blanked Russi...
Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff cruise at Roland Garros
Top-seeded Iga Swiatek and No. 3 Coco Gauff won in straight sets to swiftly move into the second round of the French Open on Monday at Roland Garros.,Gauff dispatched Russian qualifier Julia Avdeeva 6-1, 6-1 in 52 minutes. Swiatek opened her quest for a third straight French Open title with a 6-1, 6...
Top seed Iga Swiatek, Naomi Osaka could face early dual at French Open
Iga Swiatek of Poland is the top seed at the French Open, which begins Sunday, and will open against a qualifier or a lucky loser as she attempts to win her fourth title in Paris.,It's the potential second-round matchup that got attention when the draw was announced Thursday.,Swiatek and Naomi Osaka...
Aryna Sabalenka survives three match points to make Rome quarters
World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka saved three match points en route to defeating No. 16 seed Elina Svitolina 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7) in a late-night marathon in the Round of 16 of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia on Monday in Rome.,Sabalenka also endured an injury to her lower back/hip area that required a long ...
The Coco Gauff era is fully underway
Coco Gauff was brought to tears at the 2023 Australian Open following a fourth-round loss to Jeļena Ostapenko. A year later she was in danger of another early exit in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Unforced errors were piling up and Gauff was forced to rally to pull out a win by tiebre...
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...
Kadarius Toney put together a lowlight reel for the Kansas City Chiefs
Thinking Patrick Mahomes can do anything with anyone looked wayward last night....
Anti-fossil fuel protestors disrupt Coco Gauff U.S. Open semifinal
There were some folks in the stands during Coco Gauff and Karolína Muchovás semifinal showdown at the U.S. Open who were quite concerned about climate change....
Coco Gauff is proof that tennis is wack without Black women
They used to not want Althea Gibson’s “kind” around. Now we don’t know where tennis would be without them. That’s how you ace an opportunity....