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Former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died at the age of 49 after suffering from cancer, the WTA said on Monday. Novotna, who won the Wimbledon title in 1998 when she defeated France's Nathalie Tauziat in the final, died on Sunday in her native Czech Republic surrounded by her family, a WTA statement said.
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World number one Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Paris Masters on Friday before his quarter-final with a knee injury. The Spaniard, who had his right knee strapped during his third-round win on Thursday, said he wanted to try and be ready to face Filip Krajinovic in the last eight but that "it wasn't possible to play".
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Roger Federer streaked to the Shanghai Rolex Masters title with a 6-4, 6-3 dominating victory over rival Rafael Nadal on Sunday in China. It was a vintage Federer performance as the second-seeded Swiss secured the 71-minute win over the top-seeded Spaniard to clinch a second Shanghai crown (2014) and 27th at the ATP World Tour Masters…
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Maria Sharapova ended a victory drought of more than two years Sunday by posting a 7-5, 7-6 (8) victory over upstart Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus in the championship match of the Tianjin Open in China. The 30-year-old Russian hadn't won a tournament since beating Carla Suarez Navarro in the 2015 Italian Open in Rome, several months…
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Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams became the oldest semi-finalist in US Open history at age 37 on Tuesday by defeating two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2). US ninth seed Williams, seeking her third US Open crown, advanced to a Thursday matchup for a spot in Saturday's final against 83rd-ranked compatriot Sloane Stephens.…
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American Sloane Stephens reached the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time by outlasting Anastasija Sevastova in Tuesday's quarterfinal match at New York. The unseeded Stephens corralled a 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4) decision in the two-hour, 29-minute tussle to record her 13th victory in the past 15 matches. The win was the biggest of Stephens' career…
