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Zhuhai Championships: Karen Khachanov Overcomes Yoshihito Nishioka to lift title
  • September 26, 2023
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Zhuhai Championships: Karen Khachanov Overcomes Yoshihito Nishioka to lift title

Top seed Karen Khachanov defeated Japanese star Yoshihito Nishioka 7-6(2), 6-1 in the final at the Chinese ATP 250 hard-court event to clinch his fifth tour-level title and first since Paris nearly five years ago. Khachanov played ‘big-man’ tennis throughout the one-hour, 43-minute clash. After recovering from squandering a break advantage in the first set

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Elena Rybakina withdraws from Tokyo
  • September 26, 2023
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Elena Rybakina withdraws from Tokyo

Elena Rybakina has withdrawn from Tokyo after criticizing the tournament and the WTA over being left out of the top-4 seeding. Although Maria Sakkari and Caroline Garcia are both ranked below Rybakina, they earned a top-4 seeding ahead of the Kazakh due to the WTA’s trialing of performance byes in Tokyo. Instead of being a

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Zhuhai Championships: Karen Khachanov moves into the final, faces Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka for title 
  • September 26, 2023
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Zhuhai Championships: Karen Khachanov moves into the final, faces Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka for title 

Karen Khachanov snapped a five-match semi-final losing streak on Monday at the Huafa Properties Zhuhai Championships, where he defeated Sebastian Korda 7-5, 6-4 to reach his first title match of the season.   The top seed, who last competed in a tour-level final in Adelaide in January 2022 (l. to Monfils), red-lined the ball throughout

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Chengdu Open: Alexander Zverev Beats Grigor Dimitrov, Sets Final clash with Roman Safiullin
  • September 26, 2023
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Chengdu Open: Alexander Zverev Beats Grigor Dimitrov, Sets Final clash with Roman Safiullin

Top seed at the Chinese ATP 250 Alexander Zverev saved all five break points he faced to win 6-3, 7-6(2) semi-final against Grigor Dimitrov. Zverev fired 21 winners, including nine aces, as he delivered a classy all-round showing to improve to 7-1 in the pair’s Lexus ATP head to head series. After pulling through three-set

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Laver Cup: Team World Beats Team Europe 13-2 to Win Back to back titles 
  • September 25, 2023
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Laver Cup: Team World Beats Team Europe 13-2 to Win Back to back titles 

Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe put the finishing touches on Team World’s convincing Laver Cup victory Sunday.   The Americans held their nerve to defeat Team Europe’s Hubert Hurkacz and Andrey Rublev 7-6(4), 7-6(5) and secure the Laver Cup 13-2, claiming the event for the second consecutive year. The Vancouver crowd was treated to exciting

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