Andy Murray lost 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3) to 240th-ranked Matteo Viola on Thursday in the third round of a second-tier Challenger Tour tournament hosted by Rafael Nadal’s tennis academy.
Canada’s Bianca Andreescu is off to the third round of the U.S. Open after beating Belgium’s Kirsten Flipkens 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday.
With Colin Kaepernick and Kobe Bryant looking on in her courtside box, defending champion Naomi Osaka stormed to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Magda Linette to advance to the U.S. Open third round.
When two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, refused to make a commitment not to play in South Africa, a country blacklisted for its apartheid policies, the UN children’s agency stripped him of the prestigious title, back in October 1987.
The four-time Major champion told the BBC that golf should follow tennis in spacing its Majors out
Serena Williams has avoided what would have been her earliest loss in 19 appearances at the U.S. Open.
