Britain's Jack Draper reached his first ATP Tour semi-final with victory over compatriot Ryan Peniston at Eastbourne.

 

The world number 108 fought back from a break down in the second set to beat his good friend 6-3 6-3.

 

Draper, the last remaining Briton in the draw, will face Maxime Cressy for a place in the final.

 

American Cressy earlier beat top seed and British number one Cameron Norrie 7-5 7-5, while Harriet Dart fell 6-3 6-4 to Petra Kvitova.

Serena Williams and Ons Jabeur have withdrawn from the Eastbourne doubles because of a right knee injury to the Tunisian.

 

The American great made her return to tennis this week alongside Jabeur after a year out following an injury.

 

The two had advanced to the semi-finals after winning their first two matches.

Britain's Jack Draper reached his first ATP Tour semi-final with victory over compatriot Ryan Peniston at Eastbourne.

 

The world number 108 fought back from a break down in the second set to beat his good friend 6-3 6-3.

 

Draper, the last remaining Briton in the draw, will face Maxime Cressy for a place in the final.

 

American Cressy earlier beat top seed and British number one Cameron Norrie 7-5 7-5, while Harriet Dart fell 6-3 6-4 to Petra Kvitova.

 

Love Draper and he is on form!

 

Also helps that he is very easy on the eye!

Andy Murray's grass-court season ended with defeat by Alexander Bublik in the Hall of Fame Open quarter-finals.

 

The Briton lost 7-5 6-4 to the Kazakh in what was their fourth meeting of the season.

 

Murray overturned an early break in the second set but Bublik won four of the final five games to secure victory.

Novak Djokovic will be joining Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray to play for Team Europe in the Laver Cup.

 

The event, which pits six European players against six from Team World over three days, will take place in London between 23 and 25 September.

 

Felix Auger-Aliassime, Taylor Fritz, and Diego Schwartzman have so far been named in Team World.

 

"It's the only [event] where you play in a team with guys you're normally competing against," said Djokovic.

Cameron Norrie reached the Los Cabos Open final in Mexico after overcoming Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4 3-6 6-3.

 

Defending champion Norrie will next face world number one Daniil Medvedev, who beat Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic.

 

It was Norrie's first win against his Canadian opponent, who hit 17 aces to the Briton's two in the match.

Medvedev won easily in Los Cabos, 6-0 in the 2nd set

 

Serena Williams has suggested she is set to retire from tennis, saying she will be "evolving away" from the sport after the US Open.

 

Writing for Vogue, the American 23-time Grand Slam singles champion said she is moving towards "other things that are important to me", adding she does not like the word "retirement".

 

In an accompanying Instagram post, she wrote that "the countdown has begun".

 

"I'm gonna relish these next few weeks," the 40-year-old said.

Tell us you're retiring without telling us you're retiring.

All the best to her when she does stop playing - she's certainly won enough to make her career a memorable one!

it's time, it was painful to see her play at wimbledon :/

 

as painful as seeing Raducanu playing recently... another R1 lost yesterday and of course she's rewarded with her best ranking lol

Andy Murray lost in straight sets in the first round of the Canadian Open but fellow Briton Cameron Norrie progressed at the tournament in Montreal.

 

Three-time champion Murray was beaten 6-1 6-3 by American Taylor Fritz.

 

British number one Norrie, who lost in the final of the Los Cabos Open to Daniil Medvedev on Sunday, beat American Brandon Nakashima 6-4 6-4.

it's time, it was painful to see her play at wimbledon :/

 

as painful as seeing Raducanu playing recently... another R1 lost yesterday and of course she's rewarded with her best ranking lol

 

To be fair I thought it was a tough draw for Emma, having to go up against the defending champion in the first round, so I went in expecting a loss :lol: But it was pretty shit to not win a point in the first set tie break and then to lose six games in a row in the second.

 

At this point my hopes for her in the US are just to make the third round so she could at least say it's her best Slam performance of the year, anything beyond that will be a bonus.

 

Alcaraz losing on R1 at Montreal :/

 

very interesting game now between Medvedev ad Kyrgios

Thank god Medvedev won Los Cabos or we'd be looking at Zverev becoming #1 next week whilst out injured

wow Medvedev out! actually Medvedev, Tsisipas, Alcaraz and Rublev all out in R1 in Montreal!

incredible how Kyrgios is playing

The Brits slaying by taking out Tsitsipas and Rublev :o Especially shocked by Dan Evans.

Montreal almost looks like a women's tournament with all the favourites losing in R1 :D

some interesting games yesterdays

 

in men's Montreal... Carreno-Busta surprisingly beat Sinner easily, Evans beat Fitz, Felix beat Norrie and Ruud beat Bautista Agut

in women's Toronto... Swiatek and Sabalenka are out playing pretty bad both...

 

So happy that Draper is getting a breakthrough at a Master's but next he's against Carreno-Busta who doesn't appear to have been in danger of being broken in his first three matches, which particularly surprises me when he's been up against Berrettini and Sinner, so this could be a tough one.