ATP Tour

‘Maybe I struggled to handle the last part of the season,’ said the world number two as he seeks the consistency and balance to challenge Novak Djokovic’s dominance of the ATP Tour

He lost his opening match to two-time champion Alexander Zverev before getting back on track with a straight-set win over Andrey Rublev

The Spaniard has to beat Andrey Rublev in his second match at the ATP Finals to avoid elimination after losing to Alexander Zverev, his third defeat in as many games

Djokovic was as reliable as a metronome, anticipating nearly everything headed his way and scurrying this way and that to retrieve and respond, as is his wont

The No. 3-seeded Medvedev won his lone major championship at Flushing Meadows in 2021 by defeating 23-time Slam winner Djokovic in that year’s title match

‘The only thing that is a little bit, let’s call it dangerous, is that the question is: How far could we go?’ Medvedev, a 27-year-old Russian seeded No. 3, said

Isner announced the week before play began at Flushing Meadows that this Grand Slam tournament would mark his farewell

The new setup allowing players to challenge certain calls, such as double bounces, was used for the first time Tuesday

Eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari complained about an overwhelming whiff of pot during her first-round loss

Djokovic made a winning return after missing the tournament last year, rolling to a 6-0, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Alexandre Muller on Monday night

Siegemund, whose faults drew applause and whose own back-and-forth with Veljovic drew jeers, cried during her post-match news conference

This year’s tournament features several players who left the tour for a significant amount of time and now are back

Alcaraz is The Next Big Thing, the winner of the 2022 U.S. Open who grabbed his second Grand Slam title last month at Wimbledon

Djokovic was playing his first tournament on U.S. soil in two years because of COVID-19 restrictions

Coco Gauff will play for the women’s title Sunday after upsetting top-ranked Iga Swiatek 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-4. She will face Karolina Muchova

Sinner, the 21-year-old Italian player seeded seventh, has eight tour victories, also winning in February at Montpellier

Alcaraz had the shot of the match with a between-the-leg winner in the second set, but couldn’t keep up with Paul in the third

This year, players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles will get three challenges per set

Play in the main draws for singles begins on Aug. 28 and closes with the women’s final on Sept. 10 and the men’s final on Sept. 11

Evans, a 33-year-old from Britain, saved four break points in the last game before ending the match with a service winner

Despite struggling at times in the first set, Alcaraz beat Alex De Minaur 6-4, 6-4 for his fifth title of the year and 11th overall.

The 35-year-old from Serbia won that event six times, most recently in 2016

The 35-year-old from Serbia returned to No. 1 this time by winning the Australian Open in January, jumping up from No. 5 to overtake Carlos Alcaraz

His 22 major championships – which include seven from Wimbledon, three from the US Open and two from the French Open – are tied with Rafael Nadal for the most by a man in the history of tennis