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Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina knocked out at Wimbledon
Defending champion Iga Swiatek and 2022 winner Elena Rybakina fell in stunning upsets in the third round Saturday at Wimbledon.,Poland's Swiatek, the No. 3 seed, was ousted 7-6 (9), 6-2 by up-and-comer Alexandra Eala, the No. 29 seed. Belgium's Elise Mertens shocked No. 2 seed Rybakina, 7-6 (4), 6-1...
Serena Williams (knee) WDs from Wimbledon doubles
Serena Williams withdrew from the doubles draw at Wimbledon on Saturday due to a knee injury.,Williams had received a wild-card entry to play alongside her sister, Venus, but tweaked her knee in her first-round singles loss to Maya Joint on Tuesday. The Australian posted a 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 victory ...
Aryna Sabalenka to meet Naomi Osaka in Wimbledon round of 16
Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka delivered nine aces and advanced to the round of 16 of Wimbledon with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia on Friday at the All England Club in London.,The World No. 1 from Belarus hit 19 winners while advancing to the second week of a Grand Slam event for th...
Williams sisters to play doubles Saturday at Wimbledon
Serena and Venus Williams will play their Wimbledon first-round doubles match on Saturday after organizers gave Serena time to recover from a knee injury.,The sisters, who won the grass-court Grand Slam doubles title six times (most recently in 2016), take on Argentina's Solana Sierra and Colombia's...
Novak Djokovic ties Roger Federer's Wimbledon wins mark
Novak Djokovic delivered a record-tying 7-5, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4) third-round victory over big-serving Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech on Friday at Wimbledon.,The seventh-seeded Serbian, a seven-time champion at the All England Club, matched Roger Federer's men's record with his 105th singles win at the g...
Year after injury at Wimbledon, Grigor Dimitrov stuns No. 15 Jakub Mensik
Nearly one year to the day when he sustained a torn pectoral muscle against World No. 1 Jannik Sinner on Centre Court, Grigor Dimitrov pulled off a huge upset, upending No. 15 seed Jakub Mensik 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 at Wimbledon in London on Thursday. ,Dimitrov, ranked No. 146 in the world, was emo...
Iga Swiatek coasts past Karolina Pliskova at Wimbledon
Defending champion Iga Swiatek made short work of fellow former World No. 1 Karolina Pliskova during their second-round match at Wimbledon on Thursday.,The third-seeded Swiatek converted six of eight break points en route to a 6-1, 6-3 victory, dispatching the Czech native in 70 minutes. Swiatek, of...
Novak Djokovic dismantles Stefanos Tsitsipas; No. 1 Jannik Sinner moves on
No. 7 seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia extended his domination of Stefano Tsitsipas on Wednesday, routing the unseeded Greek 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the third round of Wimbledon for the 20th time in 21 appearances at the All England Club.,Djokovic, the former World No. 1 currently ranked No. 8, imp...
Coco Gauff extends Wimbledon stay with comeback over Solana Sierra
Seventh-seeded Coco Gauff pulled off a major escape by scoring the final six points of a third-set tiebreaker to register a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7) victory over Argentina's Solana Sierra in the second round of Wimbledon on Wednesday in London.,Gauff trailed 5-3 in the third set before making her comeback....
In Wimbledon return, Nick Kyrgios curses, begs for fine
In his first Wimbledon match in four years, Australia's Nick Kyrgios berated and swore at an umpire during the second set of his first-round doubles loss on Wednesday.,After his serve was broken to begin the second set of Kyrgios and Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik's 6-3, 6-4 loss to Croatia's Mate Pa...
Serena Williams (knee) uncertain for Wimbledon doubles
Serena Williams injured her right knee in Tuesday's Wimbledon singles comeback and is questionable for her doubles match Thursday with sister Venus Williams.,Maya Joint, 20, defeated 44-year-old Serena Williams 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 in the first round. It was the first singles match for Williams, a 23-t...
Harmony Tan blocked by Serena Williams 4 years after Wimbledon upset
On the day of Serena Williams' return to Wimbledon Tuesday, an opponent from her last Wimbledon appearance dug up some dirt about the tennis legend on social media.,Harmony Tan, who upset Williams in a three-plus-hour battle in the first round of the 2022 event in London, posted on her Instagram acc...
No. 4 seed Ben Shelton stunned by qualifier; No. 2 Alexander Zverev advances
Fourth-seeded American Ben Shelton was upset by Finland's unseeded Otto Virtanen in a five-set marathon in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday.,Shelton, a quarterfinalist at the All England Club last year, rebounded from dropping the first set to take the next two. But Virtanen, ranked 140th in ...
Serena Williams' return to Wimbledon ends in defeat to Maya Joint
Serena Williams' singles comeback at Wimbledon was brief as 20-year-old Maya Joint recorded a 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3 triumph over the 44-year-old in a first-round match on Centre Court at the All England Club in London.,It was Williams' first match at Wimbledon since losing to Harmony Tan of France in th...
Defending champ Iga Swiatek turns back Taylor Townsend upset bid
Defending Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek held off an upset bid on Centre Court from Taylor Townsend 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, to advance to the second round on Tuesday in London. ,Emotions overtook Swiatek, the No. 3 seed in the women's draw, when she reached her seat post-match. With tears streaming down her ...
Ben Shelton stunned by qualifier in Wimbledon opener
Fourth-seeded American Ben Shelton was upset by Finland's unseeded Otto Virtanen in a five-set marathon in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday.,Shelton, a quarterfinalist at the All England Club last year, rebounded from dropping the first set to take the next two. But Virtanen refused to give i...
No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, top seeds stroll into second round at Wimbledon
No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka dominated Teodora Kostovic and led a parade of the top-ranked women's singles players into the second round at Wimbledon on Monday. ,Sabalenka strolled on Centre Court for a 6-2 6-3 triumph in her first Grand Slam action since she followed a loss at the French Open by decl...
Tennis stars end media protest at Wimbledon as concerns remain
While admitting their primary concerns still have not been met, the top men's and women's tennis players who limited their media access at the French Open will not carry out the same protest at Wimbledon.,World No. 1 players Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner have headlined a group that has been dema...
No. 1 Jannik Sinner leans into serve to survive five-set scare at Wimbledon
Defending Wimbledon champion and No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner was saved by his serve from a valiant upset bid by Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic, winning his first five-set match in the tournament on Monday.,Sinner's 31 aces helped him to overcome 51 unforced errors during the 4-6, 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-3 vict...
Britain's Jack Draper (arm) withdraws from Wimbledon
Britain's Jack Draper withdrew from Wimbledon on Monday, the latest setback in an injury-plagued season.,He pulled out just 24 hours before his first-round match at the All-England Club due to a recurring arm injury. He was scheduled to face No. 6 seed Taylor Fritz on Tuesday.,"I'm devastated," Drap...