After each round, Baseline will look back at the round that was at Roland Garros. 1 The French Tennis Federation stole the headlines ahead of the French Open with its decision to deny Maria Sharapova’s request for a wild card. Little did the FFT know that one of the players

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Nicolas Almagro of Spain advanced to the second round of the clay-court Argentina Open after defeating countryman Albert Montanes 6-3, 6-3. Almagro won this tournament in 2011, but has not won an ATP singles tournament in the last three seasons. In another first-round match on Monday

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — LOOKAHEAD TO WEDNESDAY Venus Williams is into the second round at Wimbledon for the 20th time, and her opponent Wednesday will be No. 21-seeded Ons Jabeur, who lost only three games in her first-round win. The 41-year-old Williams is coming off her first match victory since

WUHAN, China (AP) Former French Open finalist Simona Halep took less than 70 minutes to reach the third round of the Wuhan Open, advancing Monday when fellow Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu retired in the second set of their second-round match. The No. 4-seeded Halep was leading 6-3, 2-0 when Begu retired

NANCHANG, China (AP) Third-seeded Francesca Schiavone defeated Yang Zhaoxuan 6-0, 6-4 in the first round of Jiangxi Open on Tuesday. Former French Open champion Schiavone needed just over an hour to beat her Chinese opponent and set up a second round match against another local player, Lu Jiajing. Lu came

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) No. 5 seed Denis Kudla moved into the second round of the Memphis Open with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Rajeev Ram on Monday. Kudla, seeded in an ATP World Tour event for the first time, broke Ram's serve to open the second set. The 23-year-old American

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Heather Watson has been through a lot at Wimbledon, and now she's made it through the third round for the first time. The 121st-ranked Watson, making her 12th appearance at the All England Club, advanced to the fourth round on Friday by beating Kaja Juvan 7-6

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Andy Murray didn't let the parochial crowds in Margaret Court Arena bother him Wednesday as he beat Australian Marinko Matosevic 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the Australian Open. Matosevic's first-round opponent, Alexander Kudryavtsev, accused boisterous Australian fans of behaving like ''animals''

ISTANBUL (AP) Fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers had to fight hard in the second set to advance to the second round of the Istanbul Open on Tuesday, beating the 413rd-ranked wild card Cem Ilkel 6-1, 7-6 (9). Sixth-seeded Jiri Vesely defeated Thiemo de Bakker 6-3, 7-5 in the first round, while seventh-seeded

Madrid tournament director Ion Tiriac says he brought up the idea of turning his tournament into a round-robin event, but talks went nowhere. “I would prefer 32 players, eight groups of four, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals,” he was quoted in the Wall Street Journal. “Like the World Cup.” Madrid currently

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Third-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov of the Ukraine won just his second match of the ATP season with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 victory over Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili in the first round of the Delray Beach Open on Monday. He was joined in the second round by wild

Iga Swiatek has defeated Petra Martic in the second round of Wimbledon, 6-4, 6-3, to extend her incredible 2024 winning streak to 21 matches in a row. She hasn’t lost a match since April, when she fell to Elena Rybakina in the semifinals of Stuttgart. And there’s more: she maintains

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Daria Gavrilova followed up her Australian Open fourth-round effort by reaching the second round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy in beating Russian wild card Anna Kalinskaya 6-4, 7-5 on Monday. The Australian had problems holding serve against Kalinskaya and was a break down in

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Federico Delbonis of Argentina upset sixth-seeded Fabio Fognini of Italy 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the Argentina Open on Tuesday. But eighth-seeded Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay had better luck, beating Albert Ramos-Vinolas of Spain 7-5, 6-2 to reach the second round. In

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Defending champion Nicolas Mahut made short work of his first-round match at the Ricoh Open on Monday, beating Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 6-1, 6-4 to set up an all-French second-round match. Mahut, who is seeking his third title on the Rosmalen grass courts in the Wimbledon

After each round, Baseline will look back at the round that was at Roland Garros. 1 There is winning on the tennis court and winning in life. Juan Martin del Potro did both on Thursday while knotted at a set apiece against three-time French Open quarterfinalist Nicolas Almagro. The Spaniard

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)—Third-seeded Tommy Robredo reached the second round of the Copa Claro clay court tournament with a 6-4, 6-4 win over fellow-Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta on Monday. Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard

LONDON (AP) — John Isner's 45 aces were not enough for the 23rd-seeded American in the second round of Wimbledon. He lost to 90th-ranked Dudi Sela of Israel 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3. The 6-foot-10 (2.08-meter) Isner has quite a height advantage over the 5-9 (1.75-meter) Sela,

TIANJIN, China (AP) Olympic gold medalist Monica Puig advanced to the second round of the Tianjin Open by beating Kurumi Nara of Japan 6-3, 7-6 (5) Tuesday. The fifth-seeded Puig has struggled with consistency since her triumph at the Rio de Janeiro Games, losing in the opening round at the