Former University of Texas tennis coach Michael Center got six months in prison Monday for taking $100,000 in bribes to admit a rich applicant as a tennis recruit though he didn’t play the sport.
Rafael Nadal is this week challenging Novak Djokovic for the No. 1 FedEx ATP Ranking.
BOSTON (AP) — The former men's tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin sprinted away from a scrum of reporters and his own lawyers Monday after he was sentenced to six months in prison for taking a $100,000 bribe as part of a sweeping college admissions scam.
In his first Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships appearance since 2016, Novak Djokovic extended his unbeaten start to the 2020 ATP Tour season with a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Malek Jaziri.
Andrey Rublev began his bid for a third title of 2020 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Monday, defeating Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 6-4 in 82 minutes.
No. 18 Cristian Garin (Career High), +7
The Chilean extended his winning streak to a personal-best nine matches to capture his second ATP Tour title in three weeks at the Rio Open presented by Claro.
Thirteen of the Top 20 players in the FedEx ATP Rankings will be in action this week, spread across the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC in Acapulco, the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and the Chile Dove Men+Care Open in Santiago.
Despite losses by 6-1 and 7-0 margins to the nationally ranked programs at Lindsey Wilson, the tennis programs at Shawnee State obtained a victory from Regan Osborn at No. 6 singles on Saturday at the Beechmont Racquet Club in Cincinnati.
Third-seeded Cristian Garin beat Italian qualifier Gianluca Mager 7-6 (3), 7-5 in Sunday’s rain-hit final to win the Rio Open.
