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Facebook Tweet Email Link New York Reuters  —  The US Open descended into chaos on Sunday when a photographer came onto the court as Daniil Medvedev faced match point, bringing the first-round match to a standstill and sparking a spectacular meltdown from the Russian. Former champion Medvedev was eventually knocked out 6-3 7-5 6-7(5) 0-6 6-4 by Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi, who threatened to walk off the court at one point and called for the Russian to be disqualified. Serving for the match at 6-3 7-5 5-4, Bonzi was preparing to play his second serve when the photographer stepped onto the…

Facebook Tweet Email Link AP  —  President Donald Trump says he will be at the opening round of the high-charged Ryder Cup next month in New York, and he thinks US captain Keegan Bradley should be playing. Trump posted Saturday night on his social media site that he would be there on Friday, Sept. 26, for the start of three-day matches between the United States and Europe. He said he was invited by the PGA Tour, making a common mistake distinguishing between the tour and the PGA of America, which runs the Ryder Cup in America. A PGA of America…

Facebook Tweet Email Link On an unremarkable clay tennis court in the Spanish city of Alicante, watched on by only a handful of spectators, two teenagers swipe the ball to one another with surprising vigor, belying their scrawny, adolescent frames. The ages of each player – one 17, the other just 15 – suggest that this is unlike most other matches on the ATP’s Challenger Tour, a stepping-stone circuit for those looking to join tennis’ elite. Over the course of three back-and-forth sets, it’s the younger protagonist who emerges victorious after an hour and 50 minutes. His name is Carlos…

Facebook Tweet Email Link If you ever saw Bob and Mike Bryan on the tennis court, you’ll remember that they were double trouble. “Opponents described us as like a two-headed monster,” said Mike in an interview with CNN Sports. Dominating men’s doubles for the best part of two decades, they were a dream partnership, identical “mirror” twins who were so in sync that they seemed to be reading each other’s minds. A lefty and a righty playing side by side, they became the most successful men’s doubles partnership of all time, winning 119 titles together, a haul that included 16…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Italy has long valued some of life’s more refined pleasures – food, art, fashion, all set against the country’s crumbling architecture. Now, that cultural smorgasbord includes a new and perhaps surprising offering: tennis. Surprising, at least, for those only just noticing the recent glut of tennis talent to emerge from the southern European nation. In the men’s game, Italy has nine players ranked inside the top 100 and five in the top 50, including the all-conquering Jannik Sinner – a four-time grand slam champion and the world No. 1 since June last year. Given the country’s…

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York AP  —  Australian Open champion Madison Keys was undone by 89 unforced errors and was upset in the first round of the U.S. Open 6-7 (10), 7-6 (3), 7-5 by Mexico’s Renata Zarazua on Monday. The sixth-seeded Keys, who was the runner-up at Flushing Meadows in 2017, made so many mistakes, including 14 double-faults, that Zarazua needed to produce just eight winners to earn the biggest victory of her career. The 82nd-ranked Zarazua had lost in either the first or second round in all eight of her previous Grand Slam appearances. Keys earned her…

Facebook Tweet Email Link While a recent bout with Covid-19 didn’t give Petra Kvitova the proper preparation she probably would have liked, the two-time Wimbledon champion did successfully make her farewell to tennis the way she wanted – at the US Open. After her 6-1, 6-0 defeat to Frenchwoman Diane Parry, Kvitova told reporters after the match she had Covid-19 three weeks ago. “Yeah, my physicality wasn’t great,” the 35-year-old Czech said. “My lungs are not really working yet, but I hope it will be OK when I’m not practicing now.” While she did consider not playing in New York…

Facebook Tweet Email Link It certainly wasn’t the grand slam return Venus Williams will have dreamed of, but the 45-year-old said she is leaving the US Open feeling “very proud” of the level of tennis she found at times during her 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 first-round defeat to Karolína Muchová. A lively crowd on Arthur Ashe roared and whooped throughout the contest, trying to drive Williams – the oldest singles player at the US Open since 1981 – on to a dramatic win against the Czech No. 11 seed. For a while, as Williams swept through the second set playing arguably…

Facebook Tweet Email Link He’s only played one match at this year’s US Open, but Carlos Alcaraz has already created a buzz. The Spanish second seed arrived on court for his first-round match against American Reilly Opelka sporting a new – and pretty severe – haircut. Clearly, the freshly-shorn Alcaraz hadn’t been drawing any Samson-like strength from his hair because he overcame Opelka in straight sets – 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 – to reach the second round. “I felt like my hair was really long already, and before the tournament, I just really wanted to get a haircut,” he told reporters.…

Facebook Tweet Email Link The wrestler beaten while motionless by the son of former UFC champion Rampage Jackson is conscious but has a “difficult recovery ahead,” according to a Facebook post by his brother. Footage from an event on Saturday night in Sun Valley, California, posted on social media showed Jackson’s son, Raja Jackson – a professional MMA fighter – sliding into the ring during another bout and throwing Syko Stu, whose real name is Stuart Smith, to the mat. The video, which bears a watermark suggesting it was livestreamed on the video platform Kick, showed Jackson straddling Smith before…