Jannik Sinner beat Frances Tiafoe in straight sets in the Cincinnati Open final as the world No 1 found his best form ahead of the US Open and the final Grand Slam of the year. Sinner started the season by securing his first slam title at the Australian Open but has struggled with a hip…
Aryna Sabalenka enjoyed the perfect preparation for the US Open as she secured a comfortable 6-3 7-5 victory over Jessica Pegula in the final of the Cincinnati Open. Sabalenka, who missed Wimbledon with a shoulder injury, had beaten top-ranked Iga Swiatek in the semi-finals and will now jump to No 2 in the world ahead…
Women’s world No 1 Iga Swiatek survived a scare against 17-year-old future star Mirra Andreeva in their Cincinnati Open quarter-final, coming from a set down to win. Swiatek was broken in her second service game of the match as she lost the opener 6-4, the Pole missing out on four break-back opportunities, including two when…
Carlos Alcaraz suffered a shock second-round exit at the Cincinnati Open at the hands of veteran Frenchman Gael Monfils in a rain-delayed clash. The match was left balanced on a knife’s edge on Thursday night when rain cancelled play for the night after Alcaraz took the first set 6-4 but found himself down 3-1 in…
British No 1 Jack Draper reeled off the last three games to produce a gutsy three-set victory against ninth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Cincinnati Open on Thursday. Tsitsipas served for the match at 5-4 in the third set, but Draper won 12 of the last 17 points to claim a stunning 3-6 6-4 7-5…
Naomi Osaka has likened her loss in qualifying for the Cincinnati Open to “being postpartum”, adding in an emotional post on Instagram that the feeling “scares” her. The former world No 1 took more than a year out of the game as she became a mother for the first time last July before returning to…
Katie Boulter lost nine games in a row on her way to a first-round exit at the Cincinnati Open, the British No 1 collapsing to a 2-6 6-0 7-5 defeat to Poland’s Magda Linette. Boulter started the match superbly, immediately breaking Linette’s serve twice to race into a 4-0 lead on her way to taking…
Emma Raducanu has failed to receive a wild card for the Cincinnati Open with Katie Boulter, Jack Draper and Cameron Norrie landing favourable draws for the event – live on Sky Sports Tennis. Raducanu reached the quarter-finals of the Mubadala Citi Open in Washington before losing to eventual champion Paolo Badosa. The former US Open…
