CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP)—Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and 2009 runner-up Florent Serra of France won in straight sets to advance to the second round of the Grand Prix Hassan II on Tuesday. Nieminen won 10 straight games in routing Mehdi Ziadi of Morocco 6-1, 6-1. Serra defeated beat 2004 champion Santiago

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) Algerian qualifier Lamine Ouahab upset sixth-seeded Robin Haase 6-3, 6-2 in the first round at the Grand Prix Hassan II on Tuesday. Ouahab is ranked 752nd, and had not won a tour-level match in four years. He broke the Dutchman's serve twice in each set, winning in

UMAG, Croatia (AP) Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia-Herzegovina upset fifth-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 in the first round of the Croatia Open on Tuesday. Almagro hit 10 aces but Dzumhur attacked his opponent's second serve, converting five out of nine break points. Dzumhur, ranked 81st, broke at 5-5

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday at the Australian Open (all times local): 1:35 a.m. Caroline Wozniacki has advanced to the semifinals at Melbourne Park with a 6-0, 6-7 (3), 6-2 win over Carla Suarez Navarro in an early Wednesday morning finish at Rod Laver Arena. The second-seeded

SAO PAULO (AP) Soon-to-retire Fernando Gonzalez of Chile fell to Igor Andreev of Russia 6-2, 6-3 in the first round of the Brazil Open ATP tournament on Tuesday. The 31-year-old Gonzalez, who last week said he will play only two other events before retiring, lost to the big-serving Russian qualifier

BASTAD, Sweden (AP) Former finalist Fernando Verdasco saved all five break points he faced in beating Swiss qualifier Henri Laaksonen 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Swedish Open on Tuesday. Verdasco, who won his seventh ATP title in Bucharest in April, has reached the quarterfinals or better five

PARIS (AP) — Vanessa Peltier got up at dawn and traveled 500 kilometers (310 miles) to Paris from the Creuse region of central France just so she could watch Rafael Nadal practice on Tuesday. Along with thousands of other fans, she lined up outside the main court to catch a

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP)—A spectator was ejected from the Heineken Open tennis tournament on Tuesday and the Tennis Integrity Unit was investigating possible illegal betting, New Zealand media reported. Radio Sports said the New Zealand man was seen using a handheld device, possibly to bet on specific points and take

This week the revamped and condensed version of Davis Cup, eagerly awaited by some, nervously awaited by others, debuted in Madrid. That may come as news to most sports fans in the United States. So far, only two of the competition’s dozens of ties—the U.S. team’s loss to Canada, and

PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ___ 7:45 p.m. Alexander Zverev has reached his third Grand Slam semifinal and first at the French Open. The sixth-ranked German overcame a slow start to beat Spanish opponent Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in little more

LONDON (AP) — Top-ranked Andy Murray headed a list of high-profile departures in the first round at Queen's on Tuesday, with the Wimbledon champion losing to a player who found out he was competing only on the morning of the match. Murray put in a sloppy and error-prone display in

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Defending champion Rafael Nadal completed an hour-long practice session Tuesday, hours after announcing he would play in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against Mardy Fish. ``He will be 100 percent. Everything's fine,'' said Toni Nadal, his coach and uncle. Nadal, a two-time champion at the All England Club, hurt

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Rafael Nadal's error-strewn performance on Tuesday saw him eliminated from the ATP Finals, missing out once again on adding one of the few major trophies still missing from his glittering list of titles. The top-seeded Nadal lost 6-3, 6-4 to tournament debutant Felix Auger-Aliassime to leave

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday from the Australian Open (all times local): 9 p.m. Roger Federer has advanced to the Australian Open semifinals with a 6-1, 7-5, 6-2 win over Mischa Zverev, the player who upset top-seeded Andy Murray two nights earlier. Federer was overpowering at the

WATCH: Sunday's WTA Finals round robin action concluded with Garbiñe Muguruza snapping Anett Kontaveit's 12-match winning streak to bump Karolina Pliskova out of semifinal contention.

WIMBLEDON, England (AP)—Defending champion Rafael Nadal completed an hour-long practice session Tuesday, hours after announcing he would play in the Wimbledon quarterfinals against Mardy Fish. “He will be 100 percent. Everything’s fine,” said Toni Nadal, his coach and uncle. Nadal, a two-time champion at the All England Club, hurt his

The start of the Billie Jean King Cup 2024 in Malaga, Spain, has been delayed due to a severe weather alert issued by authories in the region. The tournament was due to begin on Wednesday with hosts Spain facing Iga Swiatek’s Poland at 5pm local time. Local authorities issued an

We’re into the second week and down to the two big show courts at the French Open. All of Monday’s matches, except one, took place inside Chatrier and Lenglen. The outlier was Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Lucie Safarova, who were exiled at the last minute to the Bullring. Their court location

Fourteen times, Rafael Nadal was the last man standing in Paris as Roland Garros' men's singles champion. And as his tennis career officially ended on Tuesday on home soil in Spain, the city that was so integral to his legendary ethos was a showcase for its own fitting farewell as

DOHA (AP) — Top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz overcame Croatian veteran Marin Cilic 6-4, 6-4 Monday to reach the round of 16 at the Qatar Open. The 36-year-old Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion who has fallen to No. 192 in the rankings, was playing his first match of the season after