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Alexandra Eala took a 65-minute opening set off Amanda Anisimova in Cincinnati. She won four more games after that.

Two rain stoppages, an hour each, and a tie-break to finish. Elena Rybakina spent most of Monday getting past Magdalena Frech and into the Cincinnati last 16.

A reunion that ended on a double fault Four years. That is how long it had been since Serena and Venus Williams last played doubles together. The Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio, gave them the stage on Monday night. Peyton Stearns and Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk sent them home in the first round, 6-2, 1-6, 10-8.…

Two points from the brink Flavio Cobolli got out of jail. The Italian, the No 7 seed, beat Alexander Blockx 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 on Monday in the third round of the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio. The Belgian, seeded 28th, had led 5-3 in the deciding set and served for the match. Cobolli broke back.…

Serena and Venus Williams teamed up in doubles for the first time since 2022 and lost a match tiebreak after clawing back from 6-0 down. Neither of them looked too bothered.

Two tiebreaks, not a single break of serve Alexander Zverev never lost his serve in Cincinnati on Monday night. He never broke Terence Atmane either. That is how a third-round meeting between the top seed and the Frenchman ended up being decided by two tiebreaks, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (8/6), with the Roland Garros champion having…

De Minaur was one game from the last 16. Then the rain fell, Fery won five straight games, and the Australian had to build the whole thing again.

Sakkari had the first set and the better rhythm in Cincinnati. She won two more games all match.

Zverev held two match points in Cincinnati, then handed one straight back with a double fault. He still found a way out of the tie-break without dropping a set.