When you think about it, that's in line with many women's major winners. I can't keep count of how many players in the past 10-15 years have won their first Slam and never ever got close to winning a second. Hopefully that's not the case for Raducanu but it wouldn't be a surprise to see happen.

British men's number one Cameron Norrie continued his bid to reach the ATP Finals with a solid opening win at the Paris Masters.

 

Norrie, now ranked 13th in the world, won 6-2 6-1 against Argentina's Federico Delbonis.

 

Norrie, 26, could still take one of the remaining two spots at the season-ending finals, which start in Turin on 14 November, with a deep run in Paris.

Andy Murray knocked out top seed Jannik Sinner to reach the Stockholm Open quarter-finals and said "it's probably my best win this season".

 

The Briton, 34, was fired up and focused against the 20-year-old Italian world number 10 in a 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 win that was one of his finest since his comeback from two hip surgeries.

 

Murray will face American Tommy Paul for a place in the semi-finals.

Andy Murray missed out on a first ATP Tour semi-final in two years after losing to American Tommy Paul in the Stockholm Open quarter-finals.

 

Murray, 34, beat top seed Jannik Sinner on Wednesday but could not find the same level against an inspired Paul.

 

The Scot lost 6-2 3-6 6-3 as Paul, ranked 52nd, set up a last-four meeting with fellow American Frances Tiafoe.

 

British number two Dan Evans led Tiafoe in their quarter-final earlier on Thursday before losing 1-6 6-1 6-1.

The Masters are here.

Watched most games for the Under 21 in Torino, many great games, especially enjoyed watching Alcaraz and Korda, deserved finalists and Alcaraz a deserved winner, was on a league of his own. Really looks a future #1 contender.

 

Just realised for the Maters both 8 men and 8 women are all European. Rooting for Badosa to win in women, she completely splayed Sabalenka on their match on day 1.

 

The men just started with a very mediocre game, how did this Huzbeck make the top 8?

wow Muguruza to the semis

2 Spaniards in the top 4 is nice to see

Great Britain have named Liam Broady as the final member of their five-man squad for the Davis Cup Finals.

 

Captain Leon Smith had already picked Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans, Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski for the event, which starts on 25 November.

 

Broady, 27, has had his most successful season this year, winning a maiden ATP Challenger singles title and climbing to a career-high ranking of 121.

Novak Djokovic began his bid for a sixth Nitto ATP Finals title with victory on Monday, downing Casper Ruud

Former British number one Kyle Edmund will miss next month's Battle of the Brits event in Scotland because of continuing issues with his left knee.

 

Edmund has not played a match since October 2020 having first experienced issues during the 2018 season.

 

The 26-year-old had surgery in March and was back hitting in early summer but he has not so far been able to return to competitive tennis.

US Open champion Emma Raducanu will end her season with an exhibition match against Elena-Gabriela Ruse in front of home fans in London later this month.

 

The 19-year-old, who also made the last 16 at Wimbledon, will play the 24-year-old Romanian at the Champions Tennis event at the Royal Albert Hall.

 

The pair practised together at last month's Transylvanian Open.

 

British number one Raducanu heads to the event with new coach Torben Beltz, whom she appointed last week.

 

The Champions Tennis event runs from 25 to 28 November.

Roger Federer says he is unlikely to play Wimbledon next year and has confirmed he will miss the Australian Open as he recovers from injury.

 

The 20-time Grand Slam champion has not played since losing in the Wimbledon quarter-finals in July and having more knee surgery.

 

The Swiss, 40, told Le Matin that he does not expect to return to competition until next summer.

 

"I would be extremely surprised if I could play Wimbledon," he said.

 

"I will be able to resume running quietly in January and resume sessions on the court with complex support in March or April.

 

"I therefore estimate my return to competition in the summer of 2022."

Semis in the Women's Master were pretty interesting, looking forward to the final Muguruza-Kontaveit

 

EDIT: just realised its in the middle of the night EU time, so not gonna be able to watch

The head of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has cast doubt on an email released by Chinese state media attributed to tennis player Peng Shuai.

 

Steve Simon, chairman of the WTA, said in a statement he had a "hard time believing" the email was written by Ms Peng or on her behalf.

 

One of China's biggest sporting stars, she has not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against a top Chinese official.

 

The email was shared on Wednesday.

yay Muguruza winning the Women's masters, she will climb to #3 on the WTA ranking too

 

couldn't watch the game though...

 

so far the Men's Masters has been pretty boring

Briton Cameron Norrie let slip a superb start as his ATP Finals debut ended in defeat by Norway's Casper Ruud.

 

Norrie, 26, was second alternate for the tournament and only found out he would be playing on Wednesday when Stefanos Tsitsipas withdrew injured.

 

He ran away with the first set before Ruud hit back to win 1-6 6-3 6-4 and end Norrie's semi-final chances.

 

The British number one will still face Novak Djokovic in a final group match in Turin on Friday.

Serena Williams says the case of Chinese player Peng Shuai "must be investigated" and urged people "not to stay silent" about her welfare.

 

Peng, 35, has not been heard from since she made sexual assault allegations against a leading Chinese government official two weeks ago.

 

Chinese state media has released an email attributed to Peng, but doubt has been cast about its authenticity.

 

"I hope she is safe and found as soon as possible," said Williams.

She's accused some top guy of something, she'll probably never be seen or heard from again. This is China we're talking about.

Herbert / Mahut are ATP Finals Doubles Champions 2021. Mahut draws attention to Peng Shuai with his camera lens message

so Zverev is the Masters champion

He played very well against Djokovic, it was pretty clear from the beginning he was gonna take it

Missed the game against Medvedev but kinda knew Zverev was gonna win it cos Medvedez wasn't playing that well imo

Good to see Zverev win that as Djokovic and Medvedev had won the four grand slams between them. I saw the final set of the final. He was playing really well and Medvedev had no answer.