Tennis

BERLIN (AP) — Marketa Vondrousova upset top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 6-4 in their semifinal Saturday to set up a showdown with Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu in the final of the Berlin Open.

BERLIN (AP) — Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka staged a “crazy comeback," saving four match points before beating Elena Rybakina 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (6) in the quarterfinals of the Berlin Open on Friday.

MONROE, La. (AP) — The women’s tennis program at Louisiana-Monroe has been disbanded because of financial constraints at the university's athletic department.

HALLE, Germany (AP) — Alexander Zverev recovered from feeling unwell in the first set to defeat Flavio Cobolli 6-4, 7-6 in the Halle Open tennis quarterfinals on Friday.

NOTTINGHAM — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez dropped a 6‑3, 7‑6 (6) decision to Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska in the Nottingham Open quarterfinals on Thursday. Yastremska saved a set point in the second-set tiebreak.

ROME (AP) — Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner is featured on Andrea Bocelli’s new single, “Dust and Glory” that was released Friday. The song , which blends Italian and English, mixes Bocelli’s vocals with spoken verses from Sinner.

HALLE, Germany (AP) — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner was upended by Alexander Bublik 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the second round at the Halle grass-court tournament Thursday.

BERLIN (AP) — Newly crowned French Open champion Coco Gauff was stunned on her return to action Thursday, losing to Chinese qualifier Wang Xinyu 6-3, 6-3 at the Berlin Open.

Canada’s top men’s tennis players all fell on Thursday on the European grass-court circuit. Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., both lost in the Round of 16 at the Terra Wortmann Open in Halle, Germany.

TORONTO — Canada will take on Mexico and Denmark in a Billie Jean King Cup playoff from Nov. 14 to 16 in Monterrey, Mexico. The winner of the Group A round robin advances to the 2026 Qualifiers of the women's tennis tournament.