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The WTA’s mandatory 500 count is about to shrink. Bob Moran expects a vote at the US Open, and the leading players have been pushing for it since January.

Forty days without a match, and a win at the end of it Felix Auger-Aliassime had not played a competitive match since July 7. On this night in Cincinnati, he beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-5. The Canadian, world No. 4 and the tournament’s No. 2 seed, was coming back from a back injury that had…

Thirteen aces, 40 winners, and two hours and 44 minutes Four wins in five matches against top-10 opposition. That is Thiago Agustin Tirante’s record now, and it has stopped looking like an accident. The 25-year-old Argentine put out Novak Djokovic, the No. 3 seed, in the second round of the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio,…

An ankle, a match point, and three months of nothing The ankle went at Wimbledon. On match point. Then came a comeback in Toronto last week that fell flat. Since her Roland-Garros final back in May, Maja Chwalinska had not won a single match. That ended overnight in Mason, Ohio. The Pole beat Spain’s Cristina…

Maja Chwalinska had not won a match since leaving Paris as a beaten finalist. An ankle injury and two early exits later, the Pole came through in Cincinnati.

Two hours and 44 minutes of Ohio humidity, and the No. 3 seed was gone. Thiago Agustin Tirante took down Novak Djokovic in the Cincinnati second round.

Four straight losses, and no sign of the brakes Karen Khachanov cannot buy a win right now. The former world No. 8 went out of another tournament through the back door, this time in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters 1000, beaten by Aleksandar Kovacevic 5-7, 6-3, 7-6. It was not a hammering. In…

Fils comes in hot, and the draw shows him no mercy Nine names sit between Arthur Fils and the Cincinnati trophy, and almost all of them can beat him. The Frenchman arrives in Ohio off a strong run in Montreal, with more status, more confidence, and a section of the draw that could turn nasty…

6-2, 6-2 for Arango Emiliana Arango dumped Venus Williams out in the first round of the Cincinnati Open on Friday in Mason, Ohio. The Colombian wrapped it up 6-2, 6-2 in straight sets, with barely a contest. Arango, 25, had won just one WTA 1000 match this season before this one. Now she has two.…