Gasquet set for rare ATP Masters 1000 semifinal
For the first time in six years, Richard Gasquet is headed to the semifinals of an ATP Masters 1000 event.
Barron, Jimenez on top in Champions event
Doug Barron, playing in just his second PGA Tour Champions event, shot a 7-under-par 65 on Friday to share the first-round lead in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open at Endicott, N.Y.
Tennis-Osaka retires at Cincinnati with knee injury
World number one Naomi Osaka retired from the Cincinnati Masters with an apparent knee injury on Friday, less than two weeks before the start of her U.S. Open title defence.
Cycling: Italian great Gimondi dies of heart attack
Italian Felice Gimondi, one of only seven riders to have won all three Grand Tours, has died at the age of 76 after suffering a heart attack while swimming in Sicily on Friday.
Golf: Course record 63 lifts Matsuyama to halfway lead at BMW
Hideki Matsuyama had one of the best putting days of his career to take the halfway lead with a course-record nine-under 63 in the second round at the BMW Championship in suburban Chicago on Friday.
Tennis: Barty regroups to win, but Osaka retires with injury
Top seed Ash Barty rallied from a set down to make the Cincinnati Masters semi-finals but world number one Naomi Osaka withdrew from her quarter-final with an apparent knee injury on Friday.
Tennis-World number one Osaka retires with knee injury
Japanese world number one Naomi Osaka retired from her Cincinnati Masters quarter-final with an apparent knee injury on Friday.
Tennis: Gasquet sets up Cincy semi-final with Goffin
Frenchman Richard Gasquet continued his comeback from groin surgery by defeating 11th seeded Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6(2) 3-6 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters on Friday.
Ill Nishioka withdraws from Cincinnati quarter-finals
Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka withdrew from the Cincinnati Masters on Friday due illness, tournament officials said.
Tiger’s charge fizzles in second 71 at BMW
Tiger Woods was unable to keep a mid-round charge going Friday and will have to rally over the weekend at the BMW Championship in order to qualify for next week’s Tour Championship.
