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Naomi Osaka withdrew from the French Open and skipped Wimbledon earlier this year, revealing she suffers from depression and social anxiety. In her first major since then, things did not go well for the defending U.S. Open champion. She took the first set and then the usually stoic Osaka lost her composure, repeatedly…

Sisters Serena Williams and Venus Williams said Wednesday that they will not play in the upcoming U.S. Open tennis tournament because of injuries. They join standouts Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in their withdrawals, marking the first major tournament since 1997 without the quartet of stars who have largely…

During the fourth round of the U.S. Open in New York, Novak Djokovic hit the ball in reaction to losing a point to Pablo Carreno Busta. The ball unintentionally hit a line judge and, in a shocking ruling, Djokovic was disqualified from the tournament. The shocker comes as Djokovic is ranked as the No. 1 men’s tennis…

Fox has sold NBC Sports media rights to the United States Golf Association, including the U.S. Open with years of the deal left running through 2027. NBC owns the Golf Channel and has rights to the PGA Tour. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, said Comcast's NBC Universal is paying significantly…

New York Governor Mario Cuomo announced today that the U.S Open of Tennis will go forward this year, but without fans. The annual event has been pushed back several days, but will still reside in its traditional late-summer window, running from August 31-September 13 in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Commentator Patrick…

Tennis fans tuned in en masse to Sunday’s U.S. Open men’s final to watch Rafael Nadal outlast Daniil Medvedev in a five-set thriller. Overnight ratings for the match from Flushing Meadow jumped by 33% over last year and earned the best numbers for a men’s final since 2015. Nadal-Medvedev served up a 2.0 overnight…

Last night’s women’s semifinals at the U.S. Open, which saw Serena Williams defeat Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina 6-3, 6-1, earned a 1.6 rating for ESPN. That’s up 14% from a year ago and equals the sports network’s best for that round since 2017 when all four players were Americans. The telecast’s rating peaked…

The 2019 U.S. Open coverage on ESPN has grown in the ratings compared with last year on each of its first four days, the network said Friday. And that’s before Saturday’s primetime showdown in the year’s final tennis Grand Slam tournament featuring 15-year-old U.S. phenom Coco Gauff against defending champ (and…

Fox’s coverage of the final round of U.S. Open scored a hole in one this weekend as it dominated weekend prime time. The telecast delivered a 5.2 metered market household rating/12 share, making it the best for final round coverage since 2013. The telecast, which aired 2 to 9:45 PM ET, was up +44% over 2018 (3.16/9)…

Naomi Osaka, the young tennis star whose mortification across the net from her idol, Serena Williams, added to a memorable TV spectacle at the U.S. Open Saturday night, has rebounded to score a major endorsement deal. Nissan held a news conference to announce it had signed the 20-year-old Japanese player as a brand…

U.S. Open tennis is serving up better numbers for ESPN so far this year. The Worldwide Leader said today that overnight ratings for its first three days of coverage are up 20% from 2017 — a 0.6 vs. 0.5. The highest-rated telecast so far was Wednesday night's six-hour, 15-minute block that featured Serena Williams…

ESPN today kicks off what it is calling “first ball to last ball” coverage of the 50th U.S. Open and the 41st edition held in the major tennis tournament’s Queens home, which just wrapped up five years of major renovations. The Disney-owned network hopes that the $600 million in enhancements to the Billie Jean King…