Tennis News

2019 Wimbledon champion Simona Halep will skip the US Open, saying Monday she is putting her health first and prefers to stay in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Angela Buxton, a British tennis player who was the doubles partner of Althea Gibson when the American became the first Black person to win a major title in 1956, has died. She was 85.

World number two and reigning Wimbledon champion Simona Halep is the latest top 10 women's player to withdraw from the US Open.

Simona Halep has pulled out of the US Open over ongoing fears about the coronavirus pandemic.