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The tennis player who disappeared after accusing a former top Chinese official of sexually assaulting her is known for her grit and determination.

Political leaders in Australia says tennis players who haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccination are unlikely to get a visa to enter the country for the first major of 2022 at Melbourne Park.

Emma Raducanu came down to earth in her first tournament since her surprising U.S. Open victory, losing in straight sets to Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the BNP Paribas Open.

Emma Raducanu came down to earth in her first tournament since her surprising U.S. Open victory, losing in straight sets to Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the BNP Paribas Open on Friday night. Raducanu lost 6-2, 6-4 in the second round, ending her 10-match winning streak that began in New York. Former world No. 1 Andy Murray beat Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-2 in his first match as a wild-card.

Second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka says she has tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss the upcoming BNP Paribas Open.

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic is the latest big name to drop out of the BNP Paribas Open set for next month in the Southern California desert. “I am sorry I won't get to see my fans in Indian Wells and play in the desert, my favourite place to go,” he tweeted Wednesday. Djokovic came up one victory short of claiming all four Grand Slam titles this year, losing in the U.S. Open final earlier this month.

Unseeded Shelby Rogers saved 7 of 8 break points and put together a 6-4, 7-5 victory over 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu on Wednesday to reach the third round of the Chicago Fall Classic. The 43rd-ranked Rogers, a 28-year-old from South Carolina, picked up her sixth victory of the season against a member of the Top 20, including an upset of No. 1 Ash Barty at Flushing Meadows last month. Beating the eighth-seeded Andreescu made Rogers 24-19 in 2021, giving her a career high for wins in a season.

U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu has received a wild card into the BNP Paribas Open next month.

Naomi Osaka has pulled out of the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament.

Emma Raducanu’s life has been turned upside down since winning the U.S. Open title as an 18-year-old qualifier and she’s still struggling to get to grips with what has happened.

Britain’s Emma Raducanu, who surprised the world with her U.S. Open win, is sharing her excitement with a special message in Mandarin.

Emma Raducanu’s qualifier-to-champion run at the U.S. Open has vaulted her 127 spots in the WTA rankings to a career-high No. 23.

“This isn’t even a real picture. I just photoshopped myself in,” Savannah joked.

Serbia awoke to disappointment after Novak Djokovic failed in his attempt to make tennis history by becoming the first man in more than 50 years to win a calendar-year Grand Slam.

Medvedev won in straight sets by the score of 6-4 6-4 6-4.

As a teary Coco Gauff congratulated her opponents on their women’s doubles title at the U.S. Open, she demonstrated the age gap that had been on the court.

As a teary Coco Gauff congratulated her opponents on their women’s doubles title at the U.S. Open, she demonstrated the age gap that had been on the court. Sam Stosur, she revealed, was the first pro tennis player to give her an autograph. “Little bit of a scary thought,” the 37-year-old Stosur said.

At only 18 years old, she's the youngest player to win a Grand Slam singles tournament since 2004. She's also the first female British player to win a Grand Slam event in 44 years.

Novak Djokovic will need to climb from two sets down to win the U.S. Open and a calendar-year Grand Slam.

Daniil Medvedev's celebration for his first major tennis title was a nod to a soccer video game. Medvedev slowly and awkwardly fell to the court after beating Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final. Medvedev says: “That’s how I wanted to make it.”

Raducanu is the first British woman in 44 years to win a Grand Slam singles title.

Emma Raducanu has the lead in the race to be the youngest Grand Slam champion in 17 years.

Daniil Medvedev twice was a point from finding himself tied at a set apiece in his U.S. Open semifinal against Felix Auger-Aliassime. The No. 2-seeded Medvedev surged out of that tight spot, beat a mistake-prone Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 on Friday and now is headed to his third Grand Slam final. “A strange match, a little bit, in the second set, where I think everybody felt like it's going to be one-set-all, and you never know where the match is going to go,” said Medvedev, who trailed 5-2 in the second.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys kickoff game averaged 26 million total viewers and peaked at 25.4 million, up 20 percent from the 2020 NFL kickoff.

It's the first major final since the 1999 U.S. Open when Serena Williams beat Martina Hingis.

Novak Djokovic still has his Grand Slam chance.

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A 9/11 memorial in Boston was vandalized, with American flags torn out of the ground and snapped in half. But the next day, members of the community worked to put the display back up.

Emma Raducanu has rolled through the first set of her women’s semifinal.

Novak Djokovic will take his Grand Slam bid into the U.S. Open semifinals.

Nineteen-year-old Canadian tennis phenom Leylah Fernandez is taking this year's U.S. Open by storm, becoming the youngest woman to reach the semis in 16 years.

While the Americans are all done in singles at the U.S. Open, there’s still some home hopes in doubles.

This is the first time in U.S. Open history that no men or women from the host country has made it to the quarterfinals in singles.

Leylah Fernandez has beaten yet another seeded player at the U.S. Open to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal.

Leylah Fernandez has reached the U.S. Open semifinals, one day after turning 19.

Novak Djokovic has extended his pursuit of the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men's tennis since 1969 by beating the last U.S. singles player at the U.S. Open.

Maria Sakkari has eliminated 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu in the latest-finishing women’s match in tournament history to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time.

Maria Sakkari has eliminated 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu in the latest-finishing women’s match in tournament history to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time. Sakkari came back to win 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-3 as Andreescu had trouble with a left leg that was taped by a trainer during a medical timeout in the third set.

Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez has followed up her upset of defending champion Naomi Osaka at the U.S. Open by beating another past title winner at Flushing Meadows.

Raising her right fist overhead to celebrate shot after shot, 18-year-old Leylah Fernandez demonstrated that her upset of defending champion Naomi Osaka at the U.S. Open was certainly no fluke by beating another past title winner at Flushing Meadows. With grit and guile, and a veteran's poise in the face of a big deficit against a much more accomplished opponent, the unseeded Fernandez grabbed the last five games to beat 2016 champion Angelique Kerber 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2 in the fourth round Sunday in Louis Armstrong Stadium. “At the end it, was just two, three points which decide the match,” the 16th-seeded Kerber said.

Carlos Alcaraz is the youngest male quarterfinalist at the U.S. Open since 1963.

Garbiñe Muguruza does not like the way her loss to Barbora Krejcikova at the U.S. Open ended. Krejcikova took a medical timeout at 6-5 in the second set, then took her time between points in the ensuing tiebreaker of her 6-3, 7-6 (4) win in the fourth round. After the last point, Muguruza told Krejcikova she was “so unprofessional.”

Novak Djokovic has picked up his 17th consecutive victory over Kei Nishikori to reach the fourth round at the U.S. Open as he pursues a calendar-year Grand Slam.

Novak Djokovic did not seek to keep his thoughts to himself on court Saturday, the way he mostly did through his first two U.S. Open matches. This was the Djokovic everyone is so accustomed to seeing — yes, winning on the Grand Slam stage, of course, as he always does in this magical season, but also animated and into it, encouraging the spectators to join him for the ride on his path toward tennis history. Taking another step in his bid to complete the first calendar-year Slam by a man in more than a half-century, Djokovic moved into the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the 14th consecutive appearance, coming back to beat Kei Nishikori 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-3, 6-2.

Emma Raducanu continues to roll at the U.S. Open, using a straight-sets victory to advance to the fourth round.

About one in 10 play tennis themselves at least occasionally.

The tennis newlyweds are having a disagreement.

The tennis newlyweds are having a disagreement. Elina Svitolina, like many players, will only think about the match directly in front of her. “But I try to tell him ... you have to be looking one match at a time,” Svitolina said with a laugh.

Kei Nishikori is the next man standing between Novak Djokovic and the completion of a calendar-year Grand Slam at the U.S. Open.

American tennis player Frances Tiafoe had a small, late-night crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium going wild on every point in an upset win that pushed the record for the latest finish in tournament history. Tiafoe outlasted fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-1 and reached the fourth round for the second straight year. There were three U.S. Open finishes at 2:26 a.m., in 1993, 2012 and 2014.

Novak Djokovic has moved into the third round of the U.S. Open as he tries to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam and collect a 21st major championship.

Reilly Opelka, at 6-foot-11, has a big serve that's making him a threat at the US Open. He's having the best season of his career.

Two-time Grand Slam runner-up Karolina Pliskova has saved a match point and edged 75th-ranked American Amanda Anisimova in three sets to reach the U.S. Open’s third round.

Stefanos Tsitsipas has heard boos from the crowd for yet another long trip off court after dropping a set during a second-round victory over Adrian Mannarino.

Stefanos Tsitsipas heard boos from the crowd for yet another long trip off court at the U.S. Open after dropping a set during his second-round victory over Adrian Mannarino. Unbothered by that reaction Wednesday night, or the criticism he received from Andy Murray after taking breaks while beating him two days earlier, Tsitsipas pointed out that he's doing nothing that violates any regulation. The Grand Slam rule book just says players should take a “reasonable” amount of time, but does not provide an exact number of minutes that would be acceptable.

Stefanos Tsitsipas has heard boos from the crowd for yet another long trip off court after dropping a set during a second-round victory over Adrian Mannarino.

Maxime Cressy had heard people chanting his name in college, when he twice clinched big wins against his rival school.

For a fan, the day sessions of tennis’s Grand Slams are like nothing else, even—or especially—now.

The U.S. Open began Monday (Aug. 30), and Maxar Technologies has released a satellite image of the tennis stadium in New York City.

The stadium is filled with vaccinated fans, even with key players missing. Osaka is back and promising to celebrate her own accomplishments more (and says you should, too).

Karolina Pliskova and Reilly Opelka were among the early winners on the second day of the U.S. Open.

Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys are close friends who were supposed to be practice partners.

Full-throated shouts and hearty applause have returned to the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Australian Open runner-up Jennifer Brady has withdrawn from the U.S. Open because of an injury. Brady, a semifinalist last year in Flushing Meadows, has not played competitively since being forced to retire from her second-round match against Jelena Ostapenko in Cincinnati. The U.S. Tennis Association did not specify her injury.

“Rocket” Rod Laver will be at the U.S. Open to welcome Novak Djokovic into a remarkably exclusive club if the 34-year-old from Serbia manages to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis in 52 years.

There will be some key contrasts when it comes to COVID vaccinations at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

When Andy Murray sat in the U.S. Open's main interview room for a pre-tournament news conference Saturday, the moderator informed the 2012 champion he was allowed to remove the sort of light blue medical mask that has become so ubiquitous during the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike the nine players who met with the media in that spot a day earlier, Murray chose to keep his mask on.

Ash Barty and Bianca Andreescu are back at the U.S. Open after missing it last year.

Players will have access to therapists, quiet rooms and more.

Novak Djokovic will begin his bid to win the U.S. Open for a men’s-record 21st major tennis championship and to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam by facing a player who comes through qualifying.

Fifth-ranked Sofia Kenin has pulled out of the U.S. Open because she recently tested positive for COVID-19.

Ash Barty bounced back from a disappointing loss at the Tokyo Olympics.

Defending champion Dominic Thiem has pulled out of the U.S. Open and says he will miss the rest of the year because of a right wrist injury.

Pennsylvania golf courses already have hosted 88 USGA championships and more are on the way.

Andy Murray has moved into the main draw of the U.S. Open after Stan Wawrinka's withdrawal.

Rafael Nadal's first tournament in nearly two months is over after just two matches.

Louis Oosthuizen has a one-stroke lead at the British Open and another big shot to end his 11-year wait for a second major title.

Bryson DeChambeau’s new muscles were no match for the strong winds blowing in from the English Channel and the thick thatches of rough at Royal St. George’s.

Louis Oosthuizen is the clubhouse leader at the British Open and has a place in the record book at Royal St. George’s.

Roger Federer says he won't participate in the Tokyo Olympics after having a setback with his knee.

"The goal is to prolong my career and continue to do what makes me happy," Nadal said.

The U.S. Open tennis tournament will allow 100% spectator capacity throughout its entire two weeks in 2021.

The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families.

Osaka had already been fined $15K for skipping a postmatch news conference.

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka just became a part owner of National Women's Soccer League team the North Carolina Courage, the team announced Thursday. The 23-year-old said the support she's had in her career from women inspired her decision to invest in the Courage. Osaka is the first investor in the Courage since team chairman Steve Malik acquired and relocated them to North Carolina in 2017, according to a news release. Both the Courage and Osaka have been recently successful in their respective sports. Osaka won the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2020 and the Australian Open in 2019.

The professional tennis tours extended their suspensions caused by the coronavirus pandemic through at least the end of July on Friday, May 15, 2020, bringing the total number of scrapped tournaments around the world to more than 40. (Martin Bureau/Pool via AP, File)More than 40 top-level professional tennis tournaments are off the sport's 2020 calendar because of the coronavirus pandemic as of Friday, when the men's and women's tours extended their breaks and the sport's Hall of Fame canceled its induction ceremony. In addition, the International Tennis Federation said its tournaments would go on hiatus until the end of July, including for juniors, seniors and wheelchair players. The start of the 2020 French Open has been postponed from late May to late September. As of now, the mens and womens Citi Open hard-court tournament in Washington, where qualifying would begin Aug. 1, could mark the return of top-level tennis in the United States -- if it returns at all this year.

A big crackdown on small drones will likely be announced Monday, as the government plans to force recreational drone users to register their unmanned aircraft. That new policy follows scares this year at the White House, airports and the U.S. Open. Kris Van Cleave reports on the building backlash.

Caroline Wozniacki on upcoming U.S. Open Tennis star and former world No. 1 player shares why she loves playing at the U.S. Open.

Ultimate Frisbee's U.S. Open kicks off Twenty four teams from around the world have descended upon Minnesota to compete in the U.S. Open of Ultimate Frisbee. The U.S. Olympic Committee recently recognized the game as an official sport. Brandon Scott reports.