By Amaechi Agbo Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended from tennis after testing positive for a banned substance. The Romanian former world number one tested positive for roxadustat at the US Open in August. The world number nine tested positive for ... Read more...
By Agency Report British teenager Emma Raducanu over the weekend emerged the new U.S. Open women’s singles champion, beating fellow teenager, Leylah Fernandez in two sets 6-4 6-3. The 18 year-old won the championship in New York on Saturday with the distinction of not dropping a single set ... Read more...
Agency Report If Novak Djokovic does complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam for a man since 1969 _ and he is headed to the U.S. Open final, just one victory away _ he, and everyone else, will remember one particularly pivotal, and epic, game along the way. It came at the conclusion of th... Read more...
By Ahmed Sadiq Venus Williams joined sister Serena in withdrawing from the US Open as the final Grand Slam of the year lost more high-profile players. Serena, 39, wrote in a social media post on Tuesday that she needed time to allow her body to "heal completely" from a torn hamstring. The 41-... Read more...
Serena Williams kept alive her hopes of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title with a 4-6 6-3 6-2 win over Tsvetana Pironkova in the US Open quarter-finals. The American six-time champion, 38, struggled early on with the variety of shots from the unranked player who was in her firs... Read more...
Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu claimed her first Grand Slam title in a hard-hitting and nerve-jangling 6-3 7-5 win over Serena Williams on Saturday that put the brakes on the American’s bid to equal the all-time record. Andreescu matched Williams’ power throughout the slugfest and kept h... Read more...
Serena Williams overwhelmed Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-1 on Monday to reach the second round of the US Open in search of her 24th Grand Slam title while “rusty” Roger Federer rallied past Indian qualifier Sumit Nagal. Six-time US Open champion Williams crushed the five-time major winner from Rus... Read more...