What a crazy final is in store Sunday at the Toronto Masters. Back again is the familiar Big 4 name of Rafael Nadal, but his opponent is Stefanos Tsitsipas who beat not one, not two, not three but four straight Top 10 players consecutively to make the biggest final of his very young career.

The Greek who was outside the Top 160 and playing Challengers in Slovenia a year ago, is …

For the second straight night Rafael Nadal found himself in a fight, this one was with the man who eliminated him from his last hard court event at the Australian Open, Marin Cilic.

The two squared off in the Canadian Open Toronto quarterfinals and it was Cilic racing out to a blistering 5-1 lead behind nearly impeccable play. But the Croat couldn’t sustain it and Rafa got his teeth in …

Roland Garros champion and world No. 1 Simona Halep, looking to reinstitute her dominance during the US Open Series hardcourt events, on Friday defeated No. 6 Caroline Garcia 7-5, 6-1 to move into the semifinals at the Rogers Cup in Montreal.

It was the fourth straight semifinals at the Rogers Cup for the Romanian.

Halep had 19 winners to 12 unforced errors, while Garcia imploded with 31 unforced errors over 19 games.

The …

Novak Djokovic bid to return to the top of tennis hit a minor bump Thursday at the Toronto Masters. Looking like the Djokovic we saw earlier in the year, the former No. 1 was ousted by teen sensation Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-3 to reach his first career Masters quarterfinal.

The 19-year-old who posses some big groundstrokes but not a massive serve for a 6-foot-4 kid, only face two break points …

Upset specialist Alize Cornet lead the proceedings on Wednesday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, rolling over reigning Wimbledon champion and No. 4 seed Angie Kerber 6-4, 6-1.

“I didn’t adopt the same tactic last year in Beijing than today — I know also she improved herself in the last six months a lot,” Cornet said after her second consecutive victory again the German. “Last year in Beijing, I was more …

Rafael Nadal opened his summer hard court campaign dispatching Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-3. THe match featured nine breaks of serve, and Rafa was broken three times, so it wasn’t the Spaniard’s best stuff, but for his first match on cement since Australia, he’ll take it.

“I think I played a solid match. It’s true that with myself in the second set I had some troubles, but my return worked well. And …

Novak Djokovic advanced over lucky loser Mirza Basic 6-3, 7-6(3) in his Toronto opener on Tuesday. Djokovic was slated to play Hyeon Chung but the Korean withdrew from the event with a back injury.

He was replaced by the 27-year-old Bosnian who was outclassed early, but troubled the 4-time Canadian champ in the second, breaking him twice late, before falling.

“I’ve had plenty of success in Toronto and Montreal, and I wanted …

Johanna Konta has her mojo back.

The No. 43-ranked Brit, coming off a 6-1, 6-0 scrubbing of Serena Williams last week at San Jose, on Tuesday kept her cool to outlast No. 11 Jelena Ostapenko from a set down 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-2 in her opening match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal.

“I played myself into the match and tried to be as tough as possible,” Konta said afterwards.

The Brit had eight …

A week after pulling out of San Jose, 2-time Grand Slam champion Garbine Muguruza withdrew today from the Canadian Open in Montreal citing continued arm issues.

“Unfortunately I am still recovering from my arm injury from last week,” Muguruza said in a statement. “I did everything I could to try and play here but unfortunately I am not ready and need a little bit more time. I will miss playing here …

Rafael Nadal opens play tomorrow in Toronto against Benoit Paire. The 3-time Canadian Open champion first won in Toronto in 2008. But this year he enters with very limited play on the hard courts, a surface he hasn’t been on since retiring to Marin Cilic in the Australian Open quarterfinals.

“I’m very excited to come back to Toronto,” said Nadal. “2008 was so special, because that victory [helped] me reach …

Rain ruled the opening day of the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Monday, but not before three seeds moved into the second round.

Seeds were 3-0 on the opening day as No. 9 Karolina Pliskova topped Katerina Siniakova in an all-Czech match-up 6-4, 6-4, No. 10 Julia Goerges had to come back from a set down to defeat Hungary’s Timea Babos 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4, and No. 13 Venus Williams began …

Play opened at the Tennis Masters Canada in Toronto on Monday with 12 matches that had to dodge the rain.

Canadian hope Milos Raonic delighted the home crowd a nice 6-3, 6-4 win over David Goffin.

“I think I can still serve much better. I don’t think I necessarily served particularly well, so I’ll take the time to work on some things tomorrow,” said Raonic who won all 27 first serve points. …

The last two Grand Slam champions, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, headline the Canadian Open in Toronto, the first of two hard court Masters events this summer.

Nadal has won the title twice in 2005 and 2008 while Djokovic has taken it four times in 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2016. Rafa, though, hasn’t played in Toronto since 2010!

Last year, Alexander Zverev stunned Roger Federer for his first Canadian title. The German …

Former French and US Open winner Svetlana Kuznetsova, looking the fittest she has in her career at age 33, on Sunday won the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., in the final holding off four match points to defeat Croat and No. 7 seed Donna Vekic 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-2.

“In the second set, each of us holding serve, I was some match points down, I just managed to hang in there,” Kuznetsova …

Mihaela Buzarnescu defeated Maria Sakkari in the unlikely final of the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, winning her first WTA final.

Sakkari of Greece fell 6-1, 6-0 in her first WTA final.

“I was able to take all the emotions away and keep focused, and try to take it as a normal match, not as a final,” said Buzarnescu who improved to 1-2 in finals this year. …