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World number one Jannik Sinner will not be defending his China Open title as he continues to recover from a knee injury. The same injury also ruled him out of the US Open in August, and the Italian has not played competitively since his victory over Alexander Zverev in the …

The match against Shelton was the latest finish in the tournament’s history, and was one of several matches at Flushing Meadows to finish in the early hours. Eventual champion Alexander Zverev finished past 1am in three of his first five matches, while Venus Williams finished her first-round match at 2am. …

As Emma Raducanu plots a route back to the pinnacle of tennis, the Briton has been taking inspiration from Andre Agassi’s 2009 autobiography. Five years have passed since Raducanu’s remarkable US Open triumph, when at the age of 18 she became the first qualifier in the Open era to win …

In April 2022, Moore tested positive for nandrolone and boldenone at a WTA 250 event in Bogota, with an independent tribunal ruling in December 2023 that contaminated meat was the source. Moore, who was Britain’s leading women’s doubles player at the time of the failed test, was found to bear …

Sonay Kartal and Katie Boulter lost their respective singles matches as Great Britain were beaten by a strong Czech Republic side in the Billie Jean King Cup quarter-finals. Anne Keothavong’s team headed into the tie as underdogs, with all five Czech players placed higher in the singles rankings than any …

Sonay Kartal is narrowly beaten by Marie Bouzkova in the first singles match as Czech Republic take a 1-0 lead over Great Britain in the Billie Jean King Cup. BBC News

Contains some violent scenes. Available for over a year On April 30, 1993, one moment of madness changed the course of tennis history, and confronted the world of sport with an uncomfortable reality – how safe were its biggest stars? Teenage phenomenon, Monica Seles, had taken the tennis world by …

“It’s best not to underestimate us,” says a defiant Harriet Dart. But Great Britain’s Billie Jean King Cup squad know full well the enormity of the challenge that awaits them. On Tuesday, the tight-knit British team – Dart, Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, Mika Stojsavljevic and Jodie Burrage – take on …

Great Britain qualify for the Davis Cup Finals after taking an unassailable 3-0 lead over Ecuador as Henry Patten and Neal Skupski beat Gonzalo Escobar and Diego Hidalgo 6-3 6-4. BBC News

Great Britain became World Team Cup champions for the fifth time as Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid joined forces to secure a 2-1 victory over Japan in Florida. Japan were the defending champions of the competition, which is the wheelchair tennis equivalent to the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King …

Watch the best shots from Arthur Fery’s victory over Alvaro Guillen Meza as he helps Great Britain take a 2-0 lead over Ecuador in their Davis Cup qualifying match. READ MORE: Samuel ‘caught off guard’ on winning Davis Cup debut Available to UK users only. BBC News

Toby Samuel says he was “caught off guard” about how much his Davis Cup debut meant to him as he got Great Britain off to a winning start in their qualifying tie against Ecuador. The 24-year-old overcame nerves to fight back from a set down against Andres Andrade and put …

Your legacy is more than a name. Can Rocky Balboa turn a young boxer into a true fighter? BBC News

Cameron Norrie will miss Great Britain’s Davis Cup tie with Ecuador this weekend, with qualification for November’s eight-team finals on the line. British number two Norrie felt pain in his arm during a practice session and will be replaced in Saturday’s singles by world number 95 Toby Samuel. “He wasn’t …

Former world number one doubles player and six-time Grand Slam doubles champion Joe Salisbury has retired from professional tennis. Salisbury chose this month’s US Open as his final event and reached the semi-finals with his long-time partner Rajeev Ram, who had also decided to retire. The venue was fitting, as …

Marta Kostyuk is through to the quarter-finals of the Guadalajara Open even though the top seed is yet to play a point in the tournament. The Ukrainian received a first-round bye in Mexico and got a walkover in her scheduled second-round match on Wednesday, when Taylor Townsend withdrew because of …

The American city of Charlotte in North Carolina has been chosen as the new home of the season-ending WTA Finals. The WTA says it wants to create the “Super Bowl of women’s sports” and is hoping the three-year deal will bring more stability to an event that has had six …

Available for over a year Ben Shelton’s defeat by Alexander Zverev in the US Open final means it’s now been 23 years since an American last won a men’s Grand Slam singles title. That didn’t seem likely when Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi ruled men’s tennis – but what does …

Samuel, who is from Winchester and trains in Bath, was in New York, having just made his US Open debut when he was told the news. “I was out in New York walking around when I got a call up from Leon [Smith] the captain saying, ‘congratulations, you’ve been selected,” …

Available for over a year Steffi Graf had been world number one for 3 years; it seemed like nobody could challenge her supremacy. But then along came a teenage girl from Yugoslavia, whose aggressive style – that came with grunting to match – challenged Graf’s dominance as well as the …