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Simona Halep: World number one suffers slipped disc

  • Posted: Oct 02, 2018

World number one Simona Halep has suffered a slipped disc that puts her participation in this month’s WTA Finals in doubt.

The French Open champion, 27, says she does not know how long she will be out but hopes to be back “soon”.

The Romanian retired from Sunday’s first-round match against Ons Jabeur at the China Open with a back injury.

“I will discuss with doctors in the next few days and will keep you updated,” she said on Twittter.

The injury could force Halep to miss the end-of-season WTA Finals in Singapore, which run from 21 to 28 October.

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Read & Watch: Dimitrov Opens Beijing Campaign

  • Posted: Oct 02, 2018

Read & Watch: Dimitrov Opens Beijing Campaign

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Third seed and 2016 finalist Grigor Dimitrov started his China Open campaign with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over American lucky loser Tennys Sandgren on Tuesday over 83 minutes. The Bulgarian, who is hoping to finish the season strongly, recorded his 15th hard-court match win of 2018 (23-16 overall) and will now prepare to face Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic in the second round.

“It’s never easy when you’ve never played against a guy,” said Dimitrov. “So I think it took me quite a few games to kind of get in a rhythm, see what kind of game plan he had [and] just try to get comfortable in the match. I think the first set was obviously the tough set. After that, I kind of picked up my pace a little bit more, I started playing a little bit more aggressive. I think, also, I was moving well.”

Dimitrov opened a 5-2 lead in the first set, but had his serve broken in the ninth game. He converted his fourth set point opportunity to break Sandgren, a late replacement for Ryan Harrison, for the 43-minute opener and then took firm control by winning the first three games of the second set. Harrison pulled out prior to the match due to a back injury.

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Spain’s Fernando Verdasco is one win from reaching the Beijing quarter-finals for the third time (2009 and 2011) after scraping past Gael Monfils, the Frenchman making his debut at the tournament, 2-6, 7-6(3), 7-6(5) in two hours and 23 minutes. Verdasco recovered from 0/4 down in the deciding set tie-break and now awaits the winner of sixth-seeded American Jack Sock and Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia.

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Naomi Osaka: US Open title 'not the happiest moment' after Serena Williams' outbursts

  • Posted: Oct 01, 2018

Naomi Osaka says winning the US Open last month was a “bittersweet” moment and “not the happiest memory” following Serena Williams’ on-court outbursts.

The 20-year-old became the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam when she beat the American 6-2 6-4.

But the final at Flushing Meadows was overshadowed when Williams called umpire Carlos Ramos a “thief” and later accused him of sexism.

“There’s a lot of stuff I want to say about how I felt,” said Osaka.

“For me, I don’t know, I don’t know, the memory of the US Open is a little bit bittersweet.”

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World number six Osaka has always refused to point the finger at 23-time Grand Slam champion Williams, 37, but said she had immediately wanted to “move on” following her win in New York.

“Right after, the day after, I really didn’t want to think about it because it wasn’t necessarily the happiest memory for me,” she said. “I just sort of wanted to move on at that point.

“Of course I’m happy that I won a Grand Slam, I don’t think there’s anything that can take away from that, but I feel like it was so strange, I didn’t just want to think about it.

“I wanted to just push it to the side.”

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