Tennis

Italian Sinner battled to a 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-2 win over his 140th-ranked opponent on Arthur Ashe Stadium, while Swiatek saw off Russian lucky loser Rakhimova 6-4, 7-6 (8/6)

Jovic earned a wild-card entry for the main bracket at the year’s last Grand Slam tournament by winning the U.S. Tennis Association Girls’ 18s national championship.

Gauff was sent home in the fourth round of Wimbledon by fellow American Emma Navarro and then lost in the third round of the Olympics to eventual silver medalist Donna Vekic of Croatia.

Several players have suggested Sinner received special treatment because of his ranking, asking why he was not provisionally suspended as the investigation that exonerated him played out.

Alcaraz won his first Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows in 2022. He's piled up three more since then, including this year's French Open and Wimbledon.

Apart from Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan, N Sriram Balaji, Niki Poonacha, who made his debut against Pakistan, and former national champion Siddharth Vishwakarma are part of the squad.

Pegula, trying for the first Canadian repeat since Martina Hingis in 1999-2000, is 2-0 against Anisimova, most recently winning in April at Charleston.

The four-time Grand Slam champion from Japan needed only 72 minutes to eliminate ninth-seeded Jabeur and collect her fifth triumph this year over a player ranked in the top 20.

American Coco Gauff's hopes of singles gold at the Paris Olympics evaporated in the third round as she argued with officials and slumped to a 7-6(7) 6-2 defeat by Croatia's Donna Vekic.

India's tennis icon, Rohan Bopanna has announced that he has played his last game representing India after his tough loss at the Paris Olympics 2024 in the men's doubles event.

Sumit Nagal lost to Corentin Moutet of France 2-6, 6-2, 5-7 in a first-round men's singles match at Paris Olympics.

One of the most special traditions of the annual Grand Slam event, the Wimbledon champions' ball this year witnessed Alcaraz and Krejcikova performing a customary dance together.

Krejcikova's win comes 26 years after Novotna, who died of cancer in 2017 at the age of 49, claimed the Wimbledon title after two runners-up finishes.

The result meant seventh-seeded Paolini had lost two Grand Slam finals back-to-back after coming off second best to Iga Swiatek at the French Open last month.

Novak Djokovic swept past Lorenzo Musetti to book a second successive Wimbledon final against defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

Jasmine Paolini is the first Italian woman to reach the final of the grass-court Grand Slam.