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WTA roundup: Lois Boisson makes first final in Hamburg
No. 5 seed Lois Boisson of France and No. 7 Anna Bondar of Hungary will both play in their first WTA Tour final on Sunday in the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open in Germany.,Boisson eliminated No. 2 seed Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine 6-1, 7-6 (5) in Saturday's semifinals. She converted three of five break cha...

WTA roundup: Anna Bondar serves way into Hamburg semis
Anna Bondar racked up 12 aces while outlasting top-seeded Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-7 (1), 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Friday to reach the semifinals of the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open.,The 28-year-old Hungarian committed just one double fault while Alexandrova had six against just one ace. It is the second c...

WTA roundup: Viktoriya Tomova upends Tatjana Maria in Hamburg
Viktoriya Tomova rallied from behind in both sets to record a 6-3, 7-6 (5) victory over third-seeded Tatjana Maria of Germany on Wednesday in first-round play at the MSC Hamburg Ladies Open.,The Bulgarian trailed 3-2 in the first set and 5-3 in the second before eliminating the home-country favorite...

WTA roundup: Irina-Camelia Begu, Jil Teichmann score early wins in Romania
No. 7 seed Irina-Camelia Begu needed just 69 minutes to win in her native Romania on Monday, beating Nao Hibino of Japan 6-1, 6-2 in the first round of the Unicredit Iasi Open.,Begu won 21 of her 30 first-service points (70 percent) while Hibino struggled on her serve, winning just 42.9 percent of h...

WTA roundup: No. 3 Selena Janicijevic, No. 8 Aliona Bolsova upset in Romania
Daria Lodikova swept No. 3 seed Selena Janicijevic 7-6 (4), 7-6 (8) in the qualifying round of the Unicredit Iasi Open in Iasi, Romania, on Monday. The two were largely even statistically in a narrow two-set match, but Lodikova held the advantage in break points converted. The Russian went 4-for-5, ...

ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic gets milestone 100th win with Geneva victory
Novak Djokovic became the third man in the Open Era to reach 100 career wins, surviving a three-set thriller against Poland's Hubert Hurkacz at the Gonet Geneva Open in Switzerland in Saturday.,The Serbian great, seeded second, needed three hours and five minutes to turn back the sixth-seeded Hurkac...

ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic one win from 100th title
With his 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-1 semifinal win over British qualifier Cameron Norrie at the Gonet Geneva Open in Switzerland on Friday, Novak Djokovic moved one victory away from becoming the third ATP player to reach the century mark in tour-level titles.,The second-seeded Djokovic will face sixth-seeded...

ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic celebrates birthday with quarterfinal win in Geneva
Second-seeded Novak Djokovic advanced to the semifinals of the Gonet Geneva Open on Thursday, his 38th birthday, with a 6-4, 6-4 win over eighth-seeded Italian Matteo Arnaldi in Switzerland.,The Serbian avenged a loss to Arnaldi last month at the Mutua Madrid Open. Djokovic's semifinal opponent is B...

ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic gets first clay win of '25
No. 2 seed Novak Djokovic picked up his first clay-court victory of 2025 with a 6-2, 6-3 win Wednesday over Marton Fucsovics at the Gonet Geneva Open in Switzerland.,The Serbian star won Olympic gold at Roland Garros last July but lost his opening matches this year on the surface at both Monte-Carlo...

ATP roundup: One-sided matches in rainy Geneva
No. 6 seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland hit 17 winners and saved 3 of 4 break points in a 6-3, 6-4 victory over French wild card Arthur Cazaux on a weather-interrupted Tuesday at the Gonet Geneva Open in Switzerland.,Only three Round of 32 matches were completed due to rain delays, with some fixtures be...

ATP roundup: Alexander Zverev off to stellar start in Hamburg
No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev had seven aces and won 31 of 35 first-service points as the German defeated American qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-1, 7-6 (5) in the first round of the Bitpanda Hamburg Open on Monday.,Zverev won the title in Hamburg in 2023 and advanced to the final last year before f...

ATP roundup: Nuno Borges jolts Rafael Nadal in Nordea Open final
Seventh-seeded Nuno Borges captured his first ATP Tour title by posting a 6-3, 6-2 win over Rafael Nadal on Sunday at the clay-court Nordea Open in Bastad, Sweden.,Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam champion, was making his first appearance in a final since winning the French Open in June 2022. Borges, of ...