Tennis

1:13 PM ET Associated Press The two singles champions at this year’s US Open will earn 35% less than in 2019, the last time the Grand Slam tennis tournament allowed spectators, while prize money for qualifying and the first three rounds of the main draw will rise as part of an overall increase. A year

5:00 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked Ash Barty won her fifth title of the season, taking eight of the last nine games from wild card Jil Teichmann for a 6-3, 6-1 victory in the Western & Southern Open final on Sunday. Barty, who won her first Wimbledon title in July before getting

6:31 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania beat third-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 7-6 (3), 6-3 on Sunday in the first round of Tennis in the Land. The 75th-ranked Begu is 3-0 against Alexandrova. Begu won the final four points of the tiebreaker, ending it with a forehand that clipped the

4:45 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked Ash Barty will make her first Western & Southern final appearance on Sunday, while Andrey Rublev will do the same on the men’s side. The 25-year-old Barty used a strong service game to survive a challenge from No. 22 Angelique Kerber and reach the women’s final

3:57 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — Top-ranked Ash Barty defeated Barbora Krejcikova 6-2, 6-4 on Friday to reach the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open. Barty will next face two-time Cincinnati finalist Angelique Kerber, who won her quarterfinal when two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova retired during the second set because of a

6:34 AM ET Rafael Nadal said on Friday that he will end his 2021 season early due to a left foot issue that has been troubling him for a year, ruling him out of this month’s US Open. The world’s number four player suffered a early exit in Washington this month, where he kicked off

7:51 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — No Novak, no Roger, no Rafa doesn’t mean winning his second Western & Southern Open championship will be no problem for top-seeded Daniil Medvedev. He’s just making it look that way. Medvedev, the 2019 champion and last year’s runner-up to Novak Djokovic, advanced to the quarterfinals of

5:23 PM ET ESPN News Services MASON, Ohio — Down a set and a break to 17-year-old Coco Gauff, second-ranked Naomi Osaka fought back to pull out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 win at the Western & Southern Open on Wednesday, her first WTA Tour event since the French Open in late May. Osaka appreciated being

4:30 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Can Venus Williams and Serena Williams lead workouts on social media every day? It would make some

1:11 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Two-time champion Venus Williams will be back at the US Open after being given a wild card on Wednesday into the Grand Slam tournament. Williams, 41, has won seven major titles, including victories at Flushing Meadows in 2000 and 2001. But with her current WTA ranking of

10:17 AM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Defending champion Dominic Thiem has pulled out of the US Open tennis tournament, saying Wednesday he will miss the rest of the year because of a right wrist injury. Thiem was hurt in June while playing in the Mallorca Open and said the pain returned last

8:38 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — One long layoff was no problem for Ash Barty. She’s got this year’s Wimbledon championship to prove it. She’s hoping to respond as well to another delay. The top-ranked Barty’s second-round match in the Western & Southern Open on Tuesday was postponed after two rain delays totaling

6:00 AM ET World No. 3 Stefanos Tsitsipas said he would only get the COVID-19 vaccine if it became mandatory to compete in tennis. While the men’s ATP Tour has publicly encouraged players to get vaccinated, the 23-year-old Greek is among those who still have reservations. “No one has told me anything. No one has

7:22 PM ET Naomi Osaka briefly stepped away from a pre-tournament video news conference Monday ahead of the Western & Southern Open, her first media session since representing Japan at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. A reporter asked how Osaka’s training for the upcoming hard-court season was progressing and for her thoughts on the events in

11:43 AM ET Naomi Osaka has pledged to donate any prize money she wins from this week’s Western & Southern Open tennis tournament to relief efforts in Haiti. Haiti was rocked by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake Saturday morning that has left more than 700 dead. Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, is a native of Haiti. Really

10:59 PM ET Associated Press MASON, Ohio — Despite losing some big-name stars, the main draw of the Western & Southern Open got underway Sunday night, with the tournament returning to the Lindner Family Tennis Center after a one-year absence, and at full capacity. “We are thrilled this world class tennis event is back in

2:56 PM ET Associated Press Roger Federer is going to miss the US Open and be sidelined for what he said will be “many months” because he needs a third operation on his right knee, a procedure he said will leave him with “a glimmer of hope” that he can return to competition. Federer announced

6:36 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Top-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia won the National Bank Open on Sunday for his third victory of the year and 12th overall, beating American qualifier Reilly Opelka 6-4, 6-3. The 25-year-old Medvedev, ranked second in the world, also won this year in Mallorca and Marseille. He has four