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A tournament does not die overnight. It gets sold. Acapulco is on the chopping block. The Mexican ATP 500 is expected to leave the calendar from 2028, after one final edition in 2027. According to reports released on Thursday, its licence has been bought by Saudi-backed investors, and the event is set to move to…

Four thousand eight hundred and nine points against 133 Iga Swiatek wasted little time on Thursday at Flushing Meadows. The Pole brushed aside Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour and a quarter to reach the third round of the US Open. The rankings gap made the script obvious. Podoroska, world No.…

A win in 61 minutes, then a rant Jessica Pegula got the job done quickly on Thursday. Then she had plenty to say. The American, world No. 3, reached the third round of the US Open by beating fellow American Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-1. Afterwards she was asked about the growing number of influencers in…

Venus Williams and Sofia Kenin walked onto Arthur Ashe at 12:13am this week. Martina Navratilova has seen enough and wants the US Open to rebuild its night session from scratch.

Four months without a competitive match. Then a lost opening set against the world No. 72. Carlos Alcaraz picked an odd way to remind Flushing Meadows who is defending this title. One loose forehand and the set was gone The Spaniard beat Portugal’s Jaime Faria 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 overnight to move into the third…

Twenty-four minutes for the first set, 54 for the whole thing. Aryna Sabalenka barely broke stride against Polina Iatcenko and is into the US Open third round with a 16th straight win in New York.

5pm sharp, for once Felix Auger-Aliassime opens the day on Louis Armstrong. 11am in New York, 5pm in France, Thursday 3 September. The first match of a session is the only one all day that starts when the schedule says it does, so there is no guessing involved here. Getting this far cost him more…

Five wins to three, and the last two in a row Badosa owns this matchup. The Spaniard leads the head-to-head 5-3 and took the last two meetings, at the Australian Open last year and then on grass in Berlin this summer. Gauff has beaten a lot of people in 2026. Badosa is not usually one…

Forty years old, and still standing in New York Gael Monfils turned 40 during the first round. He won it anyway. That buys him a night session on Louis Armstrong Stadium against Learner Tien, the No. 14 seed, who already handled him in Montreal a month ago across three tight sets. Monfils has said he…