Tennis
The latest Tennis coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Sports section.
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10-time champ Djokovic beats Fritz, will play Sinner in Australian Open semis
Nobody has ever been better at this end of the Australian Open than Novak Djokovic, the 10-time champion.
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Alcaraz sets up Australian Open quarterfinal against Zverev. Four first-timers into women’s last 8
Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz will meet Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev in the Australian Open quarterfinals and Daniil Medvedev is also back in a last eight that is stacked with the top six seeds.
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Alcaraz’s win makes it record 30 seeds in Australian Open men’s 2nd round. He likes the new format
The extra-day experiment for the first round finished on time on the Australian Open's two main courts, with Jessica Pegula converting her second match point just before midnight to conclude the program on Tuesday.
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Osaka’s Grand Slam comeback ends in 1st-round loss to Garcia, Gauff advances at Australian Open
Moments after her Grand Slam comeback ended in a first-round loss, Naomi Osaka walked back through the players' tunnel where her name has a prominent place among recent Australian Open champions.
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Coco Gauff reaches her first US Open semifinal at 19. Ben Shelton gets to his first at 20
Coco Gauff knows what it takes to reach a Grand Slam final.
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The US Open is the noisiest Grand Slam tournament thanks to planes, trains, music and, yes, fans
The U.S. Open is loud. “Insane loud,” 2022 semifinalist Frances Tiafoe called it.
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The US Open is filled with players making comebacks from retirement, pregnancy or injury
Comebacks are nothing new in tennis. There’s quite a history of that sort of thing, including by stars such as Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Martina Hingis, Bjorn Borg, Kim Clijsters and Andy Murray.
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Elina Svitolina has the Ukraine war and her baby in mind as she beats Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon
The last time Elina Svitolina was Grand Slam semifinalist — twice, actually, in 2019 — she was pursuing the usual trappings of success in professional sports: trophies, money, fame, etc.
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Georgia Tech’s Eubanks stuns Tsitsipas at Wimbledon to reach his first Grand Slam quarterfinal
Until about a week ago, even Chris Eubanks did not really believe he was capable of this sort of thing — of beating the world's best tennis players at Wimbledon, of reaching the quarterfinals at any Grand Slam tournament, of winning match after match after match on grass courts.
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Wimbledon finally finished the first round 2 days later than planned
Let the record reflect that the rain-logged first round of Wimbledon 2023 finally concluded at 3:23 p.m. local time on Thursday, Day 4 of the tournament, 48 hours later than originally planned, when Alexander Zverev finished off his 6-4, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) victory over Dutch qualifier Gijs Brouwer.
