Rafa Nadal: ruthless in Round One of Australian Open A ruthless Rafael Nadal showed no mercy in a clinical first round thumping at the Australian Open Monday as fellow veteran Maria Sharapova issued her own warning with a “double bagel” demolition.The 17-time Grand Slam champion, who cut short his 2018 season
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Halep earns second successive year-end top ranking
NAN French Open champion Simona Halep will finish the year as women’s world number one for the second season in a row, the Women Tennis Association (WTA) said on Monday. The 27-year-old Romanian beat Sloane Stephens at Roland Garros to win her maiden Grand Slam title in June. She will have spent 40 weeks at […]
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Former U.S. Open champion, Sloane Stephens, qualifies for first WTA finals
Stephens looks to Asia after US Open exit
Sloane Stephens, her dream of a US Open title defense in tatters, was looking ahead to the WTA’s Asian swing as a chance to regroup and renew her pursuit of the No. 1 world ranking. “Obviously from three there’s only two more spots to go,” she said before the Open. “That’s exciting. It’s something new.” […] …
Latvian Sevastova topples Stephens in New York
UPDATED: Defending champion, Stephens, crashes out of US Open
Sloane Stephens’s US Open title defense ended with a 6-2, 6-3 quarter-final defeat to Anastasija Sevastova on Tuesday as the Latvian avenged a 2017 loss to the American at the same stage. Sevastova, through to the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, will face either 23-time major champion Serena Williams or eighth-seeded […] …
Stephens fends off Azarenka to continue bid for second U.S. Open title
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Stephens, Halep set up rematch in Montreal final
Sloane Stephens: set up rematch with Simona Halep in Montreal Sloane Stephens sent defending champion Elina Svitolina crashing out of the WTA Canada tournament in Montreal on Saturday to set up a rematch of the French Open final against Simona Halep.American third seed Stephens surged into Sunday’s final against world number
