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After trailing by a set and 3-0 in the second, Frances Tiafoe, an alum of the Junior Tennis Champions Center in College Park, turned the match around to get to the third round at a major for the second time. 

As a referee in more than one sport here in Maryland, I have a relatively unique perspective on this interaction between Serena Williams and the U.S. Open umpire.

Frances Tiafoe, a 20-year-old American from Riverdale in Prince George’s County, finally has his first U.S. Open win on his fourth try — and he eliminated a seeded player, to boot.

The No. 1-seeded Zverev defeated 10th-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-2, 6-4 in the semifinals Saturday.

Andy Murray took a more aggressive approach as he works his way back from hip surgery and moved into the third round at the Citi Open by beating No. 4 seed Kyle Edmund, 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-4, on Wednesday in Rock Creek Park.

Wawrinka's latest quick exit came Tuesday night at the Citi Open, a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (3) loss against 234th-ranked qualifier Donald Young of the U.S. in the first round of the hard-court tournament.

Sun sports reporters reflect on favorite memories and characters from the games, events and people they covered in 2017.

Digest: Wieters breaks tie in 8th with grand slam in Nationals' 9-4 win over Cubs

Zverev was undeniable in his 6-4, 6-4 defeat of South African Kevin Anderson on Sunday at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center.

Baltimore Cinderella Christos FC set for U.S. Open Cup match with D.C. United

Novak Djokovic won't be setting the Australian Open record for most men's titles this year, after a shocking second-round loss to wild-card entry Denis Istomin.

On Saturday, 25-year-olds Matt Sedney and Jack Taylor will run alongside each other in the Baltimore Marathon in honor of Jennifer Sedney and in support of the Bee Foundation.

New York City's iconic Carnegie Deli is closing at the end of the year.

Spokeswoman Cristyne Nicholas says the family who owns the Manhattan eatery want

Gael Monfils beat Ivo Karlovic, 5-7, 7-6 (6), 6-4, Sunday at the Citi Open to earn his first trophy in 2 1/2 years.

Andy Murray has been all in with Under Armour, and vice-versa.

Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to win the French Open men's title on Sunday, giving him the final major in a career Grand Slam.

Teenagers Crystal Wang and Kanak Jha won qualifying tournaments Saturday night on the final day of the U.S. Open table tennis trials.

With her first Grand Slam title, Angelique Kerber becomes the first German woman to win the Australian Open since Steffi Graf in 1994.

The government has lined up a number of drone and pilot industry groups behind an effort to get operators to register their aircraft and has formed a task force to spell out specific rules, but questions remain about how the requirement will be enforced and how much help it will be in tracking down operators who fly dangerously.

Why must The Sun ignore women's tennis while covering Ravens football in painstaking detail?

In America today, a bad cop is more likely to win the lottery than be held accountable for his misbehavior, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

With the men's final at the U.S. Open delayed by rain on ESPN, the baseball game will move to ESPN2.

Long before they carved their legacy into the sport of tennis, long before the younger of the two became arguably the greatest female champion in her sport, the Williams sisters came to Baltimore to play in an annual charity event run by Pam Shriver, then one of the top players in the women¿s game.

Marin Cilic will face Kei Nishikori in a semifinal match at the Citi Open on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Caitlyn Jenner delivered a powerful message at the ESPY Awards last week. Perhaps ESPN's decision to choose her for the honor was controversial. Instead of dwelling on that, the message is much more important.

After struggling in some of her earlier matches, Serena Williams takes her game to another level in beating Maria Sharapova in the Wimbledon semifinals.

Ben's Cat is being pointed toward the $200,000 Parx Dash (Grade 3) on July 11 in Bensalem, Pa.

Matthew Centrowitz (Broadneck) finished fourth in the 800 meters at the Diamond League Adidas Grand Prix on Saturday in New York.

Fair Hill-based trainer H. Graham Motion earned career victory 2,000 at Delaware Park on Tuesday with The Buttonwood Group's Rachel Wall.

Tennis is Centenari's job, and he grinds through intense training sessions in hopes of reaching the country's biggest tennis tournament.

Eleonore Evans, a sophomore at McDonogh, certainly knows her way around a squash court. She is the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association No. 1 position champion.

Crystal Wang, 11, of Boyds, Maryland, is the youngest girl to win the U.S. 21-and-under division at the U.S. table tennis national championships.

With the announcement he will be on a regional cover of Sports Illustrated this week, Orioles first baseman Chris Davis joined some elite company. Former Orioles including Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr. have graced the cover of the magazine since its start in 1954, as have decorated athletes like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.

Before Wednesday night's game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Camden Yards, the Orioles were joined in the clubhouse by kids from the Maryland Table Tennis Center for an exhibition and then some competition.

On the green clay tennis courts of Chartwell Country Club in Severna Park during a Wednesday afternoon in early August, Patrick Daciek is bursting with energy, ready for a challenge.

Harford Community College student Brandon Wolf was named the 2013 Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winner by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association

Reporter bounces back from life-threatening illness, picks up her tennis racquet

WJZ-TV, which angered many fans in May when it cut away from a dramatic 17th inning win by the Baltimore Orioles to go to "60 Minutes," found itself in the same kind of programming crunch Monday.

Earlier this month, Derek Nie won the 11-and-under category of the 2012 U.S. Open table tennis championships, which is the biggest tournament in the country for the sport.

Rec sports for Howard County

For stations across the country and in Baltimore, Monday is the first day of the post Oprah Winfrey era. And, like their counterparts, the stations here will be trying new and allegedly improved shows to grab a piece of the huge audience that the queen of daytime television held for 25 years..

Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.

Tennis: Ellicott City's Beatrice Capra loses in WTA Citi Open qualifier

City liquor board chairman Steve Fogleman launches tennis blog. Now he's covering Citi Open Women's Tennis Championship in College Park