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WTA • TENNIS • MIAMI • DANIELLE COLLINS CRUSHES VENUS WILLIAMS, ROLLS INTO SEMIFINALS

The sight of Venus Williams in the locker room nearly brought qualifier Danielle Collins to tears. Squaring off against her tennis idol for the first time, Collins calmly hammered her hero right out of the tournament.

WTA • MIAMI OPEN TENNIS • SLOANE STEPHENS BEATS ANGIE KERBER EASILY

There are billions of moves in chess. However, a couple of strategies tend to dominate high level competition. There is the positional game, playing with whatever pieces exist and trying to find the best move therein, and the tactical game, which is intended to set up attacks to place the opponent in jeopardy.

MERCURIAL ATP RISING TALENT NICK KYRGIOS ADDED TO U.S. CLAY TENNIS

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios has been awarded a wild card for the Fayez Sarofim & Co. U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship which will take place April 7-15 at River Oaks Country Club.

KOKKINAKIS FOLLOWS UP UPSET OF ROGER FEDERER WITH HEATED LOSS TO VERDASCO IN MIAMI OPEN TENNIS

Thanasi Kokkinakis scored the biggest win of his career in the Miami Open second round, when he stunned world No. 1 and 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) on Saturday afternoon.

VOLVO TENNIS (CHARLESTON) WTA OPEN EXTENDS TWO WILD CARDS • BETHANIE • PETKOVIC • BUY TICKETS!

The Volvo Car Open has extended two of its five main draw wild cards to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Andrea Petkovic. They join a deep field that includes Caroline Garcia, Johanna Konta, Sloane Stephens, Petra Kvitová, Madison Keys, Daria Kasatkina, Julia Goerges, Naomi Osaka and more in the Charleston, South Carolina.

AUSSIE • ATP • TENNIS STAR NICK KYRGIOS BEATS FABIO FOGNINI 6-3, 6-3 IN MIAMI

Kyrgios-Fognini is like 8:45 P.M. on July 4th in America - as darkness descends, the fireworks are inevitable. I caught the second set of this match.

MIAMI OPEN TENNIS • DEL POTRO DOMINATES KEI NISHIKORI • MARIN CILIC WINS TOO

Juan Martin Del Potro's spring surge continued at the Miami Open on Sunday afternoon, when he easily got the best of Kei Nishikori 6-2, 6-2 during second-round action.

VENUS WILLIAMS SAVES THREE MATCH POINTS • PREVAILS IN MIAMI TENNIS THRILLER

The court clock crept past two hours, 50 minutes. But 37-year-old Venus Williams was too busy turning back time to take much notice.

“MIAMI VICE” • TENNIS TOURNEY LOSES THE BIGGEST NAME OF ALL AS FEDERER FALLS TO AUSSIE KOKKINAKIS

Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, and Stan Wawrinka were never part of the Miami Open draw. The same goes for Dominic Thiem, Gael Monfils, and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Novak Djokovic was in it--briefly--but lost his opening match to Benoit Paire on Friday.

RESTED ROGER FEDERER LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK IN MIAMI FROM INDIAN WELLS FINAL LOSS

There will be no Sunshine Double for Roger Federer in 2018 like there was last season. Still, circumstances are not exactly dire for Federer these days. Far from it.

INDIAN WELLS RANDOM NOTES

The 2018 BNP Paribas Open gave us dynamic debuts, revitalized returns and an all-time champions box of Rod Laver, Pete Sampras and Sugar Ray Leonard.

DEL POTRO UPSETS FEDERER IN THRILLER • TRIUMPHS IN INDIAN WELLS FOR FIRST CAREER MASTERS 1000 TITLE

In his 14th year on tour and having never previously won a Masters 1000 tournament, Juan Martin Del Potro's first such title was never going to come easy. It came just about the hardest way possible on Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open.

TENNIS MOURNS THE PASSING OF KEN FLACH

Ken Flach and Roberto Seguso were the must-see doubles team of their generation. Now, the tennis worlds mourns the passing of six-time Grand Slam doubles champion Flach, who died at age 54 on Monday after a brief illness.

ROGER FEDERER & DEL POTRO SET UP BLOCKBUSTER FINAL @ 2018 BNP PARIBAS OPEN

With Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray among those on the sidelines and Novak Djokovic a shadow of his former self, the dream final when the 2018 BNP Paribas Open began was Roger Federer vs. Juan Martin Del Potro. Nine days later, that dream is now a realty.

ROGER FEDERER FIGHTS INTO EIGHTH INDIAN WELLS FINAL @ BNP PARIBAS OPEN

Streaking across the purple patch of court, Roger Federer slashed a forehand pass that landed like a splash of yellow paint in the final game.

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