Alexander Zverev has had surgery on torn ligaments in his right ankle following his French Open semi-final retirement last week.

 

The German world number three was taken off court in a wheelchair after a nasty fall in the match against Rafael Nadal.

 

On Instagram, Zverez said "surgery was the best choice" in order for him to return to action as soon as possible.

 

His brother Mischa told German newspaper Bild that Wimbledon is "out of the question" for the 25-year-old.

Harriet Dart saved three match points to stun third seed Camila Giorgi at the Nottingham Open and reach her first WTA quarter-final.

 

The match was tied at a set apiece before rain stopped play on Wednesday, and the two had a lengthy wait to go on court on Thursday.

 

However, Dart produced a superb tie-break performance to beat the 26th-ranked Italian 5-7 6-4 7-6 (7-3).

Sue Barker will step down from her role as the presenter of the BBC's Wimbledon coverage after the 2022 tournament.

 

Barker, 66, first joined the coverage in 1993 and since 2000 has anchored the network's broadcast.

 

The decision brings to an end Barker's 30-year career at the BBC in which she has also presented the Olympic Games and Sports Personality of the Year.

Andy Murray's bid for a first grass-court singles title in six years ended in defeat by Matteo Berrettini in the Stuttgart Open final.

 

The Briton, 35, was troubled by what looked like a left hip problem in the third set of a 6-4 5-7 6-3 loss.

 

Before that, his run had been full of encouraging signs with Wimbledon just 15 days away and will send him into the top 50 for the first time since 2018.

Dan Evans beat Jordan Thompson to claim his second Nottingham Open title without dropping a set in an ideal boost to his Wimbledon preparations.

 

The British number two registered a 6-4 6-4 victory over the Australian.

 

Evans, who also won the Challenger event in 2019, will now move on to Queen's Club, where he opens against defending champion Matteo Berrettini.

unbelievable Van Rijthoven beat Medvedev!!! and quite easily it seems judging by the score.

and he also beat Fritz, Gaston and Felix!

Medvedev now World #1 :')

 

So 2 Opens this year where the current world #1 won't be allowed to compete for 2 completely different (yet stupid) reasons.

in my personal view, Novax Djokovic was the stupid one not wanting to be vaccinated

but we all got different opinions on the topic of vaccines

 

anyway, I understand why Wimbledon is not giving points this year but

seems a bit unfair that players lose last years points ie -2000 for Novax

 

Andy Murray has withdrawn from Queen's because of an abdominal strain he picked up in the Stuttgart final on Sunday.

 

Murray, 35, had a scan on Monday afternoon in London and has decided to skip the Cinch Championships after it revealed the level of the damage.

 

Murray hopes to be fit enough to play at Wimbledon, which starts on 27 June.

 

The British former world number one might play an exhibition at the Hurlingham Club in London next week.

Serena Williams will make her return to Grand Slam tennis at Wimbledon this month after being given a wildcard entry to the singles.

 

The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion has not played since injuring herself in the first round at SW19 last year.

 

The American will make her return to tennis on the doubles court at Eastbourne alongside Tunisia's Ons Jabeur in the week before Wimbledon.

 

She will then compete at SW19, where she is a seven-time singles champion.

Exciting! I suppose even if she's not at her best it will still be nice to see her there.

Britain's Katie Boulter backed up the biggest win of her career by beating Caroline Garcia to reach the Birmingham Classic quarter-finals.

 

The day after defeating Alison Riske for her first win over a top-40 player, Boulter triumphed 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 over French former world number four Garcia.

 

Garcia double-faulted to lose the first set and was still unhappy early in the second, with Boulter taking advantage.

 

"I'm absolutely ecstatic right now," Boulter, 25, said.

 

She will face former world number one Simona Halep for a place in the semi-finals after the Romanian beat Britain's Harriet Dart 6-3 6-2.

British number three Heather Watson lost in straight sets to Canadian Rebecca Marino in her first-round match at Eastbourne.

 

Watson, 30, fell to a 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 defeat by world number 107 Marino, who will play Italian Camila Giorgi next.

Notable Movements In The Top 20 (ATP)

 

10. Hubert Hurkacz (Poland)

11. Matteo Berrettini (Italy)

12. Cameron Norrie

15. Diego Schwartzman (Argentina)

16. Denis Shapovalov (Canada)

 

Notable Movements In The Top 20 (WTA)

 

3. Ons Jabeur (Tunisia)

4. Paula Badosa (Spain)

5. Maria Sakkari (Greece)

6. Aryna Sabalenka

8. Danielle Collins (USA)

9. Jessia Pegula (USA)

12. Coco Gauff (USA)

13. Daria Kasatkina

14. Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)

15. Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic)

16. Leylah Fernandez (Canada)

19. Simona Halep (Romania)

20. Victoria Azarenka

 

Russia-born doubles player Natela Dzalamidze will be able to compete at Wimbledon after changing her nationality to represent Georgia.

 

Wimbledon has banned Russian and Belarusian players this year because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 

Dzalamidze, 29, is on the Wimbledon entry list as Georgian, having competed at the French Open in May under a neutral flag as Russians had to.

Some great British success in Eastbourne today - Jodie Burrage has taken out Badosa, Katie Boulter building on Birmingham by beating Pliskova and Ryan Peniston came from a set down against Holger Rune (and he beat Ruud at Queen's last week in his ATP singles draw debut!)

Serena Williams' comeback continued as she and Ons Jabeur reached the Eastbourne doubles semi-finals with an entertaining win over Shuko Aoyama and Chan Hao-ching.

 

The American great, playing just her second match in 12 months, produced a strong serving performance in a 6-2 6-4 win over the doubles specialists.

 

She and Jabeur saved all nine of the break points they faced.

 

"Ons held me up today, she was so good," Williams, 40, said.

just read Djokovic is seed #1 at Wimbledon and Nadal is #2, so they only meet at the final

weird choice to have Casper Ruud as #3

as usual, at Eastbourne, 7 of the top 7 seeds have lost before the round of 16 :D