From the pits of despair in Paris, record-setting Novak Djokovic now eyes a third US Open title in New York where for the first time since Wimbledon last year, the sport's 'Big Four' will be reunited. Djokovic became the first man to win all nine Masters titles with victory over Roger Federer at Cincinnati on Sunday. Federer also knows that the clock is ticking. The 20-time Grand Slam winner w...

JAKARTA -- South Korea arrived in Jakarta with an eye on eight gold medals in fencing at the 18th Asian Games. After getting shut out on Sunday, the team claimed two gold medals on the piste on Monday. Jeon Hee-sook and Gu Bon-gil won the women's foil and the men's sabre individual titles on Day 2 of the Asian Games. It was Jeon's second straight gold and Gu's third in a row. Gu's victory in th...

JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- North Korean weightlifter Om Yun-chol successfully defended his Asian Games title on Monday. Om, 26, won the men's 56kg weightlifting competition at the 18th Asian Games after clearing a total of 287kg. Thach Kim Tuan of Vietnam took silver at 280kg, while Surahmat Bin Suwoto Wijoyo of Indonesia earned bronze at 272kg. This was North Korea's 100th Summer Asian Games gold med...

JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- South Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Jan-di won a silver medal in the women's 67-kilogram division at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. Kim lost to Julyana Al Sadeq of Jordan 5-1 in the final to claim an Asiad silver. This was South Korea's third taekwondo "kyorugi" (sparring) medal at Jakarta-Palembang 2018. Earlier, Kim Tae-hun won the men's 54kg, while Ha Min-ah took silver i...

JAKARTA (Yonhap) -- South Korean taekwondo fighter Kim Tae-hun won a gold medal in the men's 58-kilogram division at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. Kim defeated Niyaz Pulatov of Uzbekistan 24-6 in the final to claim his second career Asian Games gold. He topped the men's 54kg at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon. It was also South Korea's first gold medal from taekwondo "kyorugi" (sparring) comp...

PALEMBANG, Indonesia -- South Korea picked up two silver medals in shooting at the 18th Asian Games on Monday. First, it was Jung Eun-hea winning silver in the women’s 10-meter air rifle at Jakabaring Sport City Shooting Range in Palembang, the co-host city of the Asian Games with Jakarta. Then Kang Gee-eun followed up with silver in the women’s trap. In the air rifle event, Jung scored 248.6...

South Korean shooting legend Jin Jong-oh will try to add one more honor to his already-decorated resume on Tuesday by winning the men's 10-meter air pistol event at the 18th Asian Games. Jin, who won four gold medals from the last three Olympic Games, has three Asian Games gold medals, but all of them are from team events. He has one silver and three bronzes in individual events. In what could ...

Mason, OH (AFP) -- Novak Djokovic ended a career-long jinx, lifting the trophy in Cincinnati at last to complete a matched set of Masters 1000 titles. Djokovic, who came up empty in five prior Cincinnati finals, defeated seven-time winner Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final. The former world number one became the first man to win all nine of the ATP's Masters 1000 events in the elite series' cu...

JAKARTA -- South Korea wasted little time establishing its winning ways at the 18th Asian Games, picking up two gold medals to go along with three silver and six bronze medals on Sunday, the first full day of competition in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. Taekwondo poomsae practitioners delivered both of the gold medals, plus one silver and one bronze, to get the ball rolling in Jakarta. Pooms...

PALEMBANG -- A unified Korean men's rowing team finished last in its qualification group in its Asian Games debut on Sunday. Kim Su-min and Park Tae-hyun from South Korea and Yun Chol-jin and Kim Chol-jin from North Korea finished last among four teams in Heat 1 of the lightweight men's four competition with a time of 7:12.74. The 2,000-meter race took place at Jakabaring Lake inside Jakabaring ...

South and North Korea marched together at the opening ceremony of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday, marking the second time in six months that the two were united behind one flag at an international sporting competition. South Korean female basketball player Lim Yung-hui and North Korean football player Ju Kyong-chol together carried the Korean Unification Flag -- a blue Korean Penins...

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon left for Indonesia Saturday to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, setting the stage for a possible meeting with a senior North Korean official. South and North Korea are set to march together behind the Korean Unification Flag at the opening ceremony in Jakarta later in the day. The rival Koreas are scheduled to field joint teams in three spo...

Palembang, a co-host city of the 2018 Asian Games along with Jakarta, could prove to be the promised land for South Korea, once the competition begins in earnest on Sunday. Located about 430 kilometers northwest of the Indonesia capital, Palembang will stage women's football, shooting, rowing, canoeing, bowling, tennis and soft tennis, among others. While preliminary matches in football, basket...

The unified Korea women's basketball team suffered its first loss at the Asian Games on Friday, falling to Chinese Taipei 87-85 in overtime. Korea rallied from a 71-65 deficit with 3:22 remaining in the fourth quarter to force the extra session in Group X play at GBK Basketball Hall, thanks to Kim Han-byul's desperate putback with 6.2 ticks to go. Kim was fouled on the shot but failed to convert...

The South Korean delegation for the 18th Asian Games officially paraded into the athletes' village in Jakarta at a welcome event on Thursday. Led by chef de mission Kim Seong-jo, 20 South Korean athletes and officials attended the team welcome ceremony at the athletes' village in Kemayoran, central Jakarta, along with delegations from Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong and the Maldives. Greeted by Yuni Kar...