Simona Halep claimed her fourth successive win over Venus Williams to reach the Miami Open quarter-finals.

 

The Romanian third seed hit 21 winners as she beat Williams 6-3 6-3 and now faces China's Qiang Wang, who defeated compatriot Yafan Wang 7-5 6-4.

 

Either Halep or Petra Kvitova could replace Naomi Osaka as world number one at the end of the tournament.

Roger Federer reached the Miami Open fourth round with a straight-set win over world number 103 Filip Krajinovic.

 

The Swiss, who is bidding for a fourth title in Miami, beat Serbia's Krajinovic 7-5 6-3.

Simona Halep has moved closer to reclaiming the world number one ranking as she reaches the Miami Open semi-finals.

 

Former world number one Victoria Azarenka reached her first singles final in three years by defeating top seed Angelique Kerber at the Monterrey Open.

 

The Belarusian beat Kerber - another former world number one - 6-4 4-6 6-1.

Muguruza is also doing her best tournament in a while at Monterey

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British number one Kyle Edmund let an early lead slip as he was beaten in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters by Diego Schwartzman.

 

World number 23 Edmund led Argentina's Schwartzman by a set and 3-0 but ultimately lost 4-6 6-3 6-1.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal breezed into the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals, but Britain's Cameron Norrie could not progress from the last 16.

 

Top seed Djokovic, 31, needed just one hour and eight minutes to win 6-3 6-0 against American Taylor Fritz.

 

Second seed Nadal eased past Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov in a 6-4 6-1 win on the clay - having now won 23 consecutive sets at the Masters 1000 tournament.

 

Norrie lost 6-2 7-5 to Italian Lorenzo Sonego, ranked 40 places below him.

 

The British number two, who is set to rise into the top 50 next week, was broken four times and struggled to test Sonego's serve.

Rafael Nadal suffered a shock 6-4 6-2 defeat by Italian Fabio Fognini in the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.

 

The 32-year-old Spaniard, seeking his 12th Monte Carlo title, had won his past 18 matches at the event and lost only four of 76 in his career.

 

World number 18 Fognini, 31, will face Serb Dusan Lajovic in Sunday's final.

The GB womens team are through to the World Group of the Fed Cup for the first time since 1993. That was a great effort by Johanna Konta and Katie Boulter over the weekend.

The last time they were completing in the World Group of the Fed Cup they were playing the likes of Conchita Martínez and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario where they lost 3-0.

British number two Cameron Norrie lost 6-2 6-2 to Spain's Albert Ramos Vinolas in the first round of the Barcelona Open on Tuesday.

 

The 23-year-old, who climbed to 45th in the latest ATP world rankings, lost serve at the start of both sets before losing the final three games.

Rafael Nadal moved a step closer to setting an ATP record as he eased into the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open with a straight-set victory over Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff.

 

Nadal, 32, is bidding to become the first player to win the same event 12 times and breezed through this quarter-final match, winning 7-5 7-5.

 

The former world number one will next face 2017 finalist Dominic Thiem.

Rafael Nadal's hopes of extending his own record by winning an ATP tournament for the 12th time were ended when he was beaten by Dominic Thiem in the Barcelona Open semi-finals.He lost in straight sets to Thiem 6-4 6-4.

Johanna Konta is through to her first clay court final of her career after winning in straight sets at the Morocco Open. She will play Maria Sakkari in today's final.

 

 

And she lost in that final after being one set up.

 

A day later she began her Madrid Open campaign with a 6-4 6-1 win over Alison Riske. She'll play Halep in the next round.

 

 

British number two Katie Boulter has withdrawn from the French Open and will miss the rest of the clay-court season due to a back injury.

 

The world number 92 was struggling with the injury during Britain's Fed Cup victory over Kazakhstan last month.

Andy Murray has been offered a wildcard to play at Queen's Club next month and will decide "nearer the time" if he will take it.

 

The three-time Grand Slam champion, 31, had hip surgery in January.

 

Murray said in March he was pain-free but rated his chances of playing in the Wimbledon singles at "less than 50%" and has not played competitively since.

 

The Fever-Tree Championships at Queen's in London will start on Monday, 17 June - two weeks before Wimbledon begins.

British number one Johanna Konta went out of the Madrid Open in the second round, losing to Romanian world number three Simona Halep.

 

Two-time Madrid champion Halep, 27, wrapped up a 7-5 6-1 win in one hour and 30 minutes.

Roger Federer says he would have "always felt regrets" not returning to clay this year after marking his three-year absence from the surface with a rapid win over France's Richard Gasquet at the Madrid Open.

 

The Swiss great, 37, needed just 53 minutes to win 6-2 6-3.