October 8, 20231 yr Author Arthur Fery up to #273 in the live rankings by reaching the Challenger final in France. Another win will take him into the top 250 which is Wimbledon MDWC range. He's 5 months younger than Draper and another great GB prospect.
October 10, 20231 yr Author US Open champion Coco Gauff and French Open winner Iga Swiatek will miss next month's Billie Jean King Cup finals. The finals begin in Spain two days after the WTA Finals finish in Mexico. World number four Jessica Pegula, who like Gauff is playing singles and doubles at the WTA Finals, is also missing from the United States team. But Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan and the Czech duo of Marketa Vondrousova and Karolina Muchova are planning to play both events. Cancun was awarded the WTA Finals in early September - four months after Seville was announced as the host city for the Billie Jean King Cup finals.
October 11, 20231 yr Author Top seed Carlos Alcaraz has been defeated in the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters by Grigor Dimitrov. World number two Alcaraz, 20, won three games in a row to take the first set, but Dimitrov fought back to win 5-7 6-2 6-4. Bulgarian Dimitrov, who is seeded 18th, will face Chilean 22nd seed Nicolas Jarry in the quarter-finals on Friday. The 32-year-old is looking to secure his first ATP title since winning the season-ending championship in 2017. "I'm still here, I'm not going anywhere," said Dimitrov after the match. Jarry, 28, booked his place in the last eight of the tournament - the first Shanghai Masters since the Covid pandemic - with a 6-3 5-7 6-3 victory against Argentina's Diego Schwartzman.
October 11, 20231 yr Author Rafael Nadal will make his return to Grand Slam tennis following hip surgery at the 2024 Australian Open, says tournament chief Craig Tiley. Spain's 22-time Grand Slam champion has been out of action since January and underwent surgery in June. Nadal, 37, has said he plans to retire at the end of the 2024 season. According to Tiley, former women's champions Naomi Osaka, Angelique Kerber and Caroline Wozniacki also plan to return after maternity breaks.
October 19, 20231 yr Author Billie Jean King says she would happily see the women's cup competition bearing her name combined with the men's Davis Cup into one World Cup of tennis. Both team events conclude next month, with the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Seville from 7 to 12 November and the Davis Cup from 21 to 26 November. "I think it's really important to have a World Cup for tennis," King said. "The whole world understands a World Cup. They know it's country versus country." The winner of 39 Grand Slam titles added: "I want us together, I always want the men and women together. I think we can enhance it and make more of a focus on us. I think people like it when we are all happy together." King accepts there are "a thousand questions" which would need resolving before the two tournaments can become one. Tournament director Conchita Martinez said she would also be in favour, so long as women get equal time on the show courts and the same access to the practice courts.
October 23, 20231 yr Author Great Britain have named an unchanged team for November's Davis Cup quarter-final against Serbia in Malaga. Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans, Andy Murray and Jack Draper bested Australia, Switzerland and France in Manchester last month to qualify. Doubles specialist Neal Skupski also reappears alongside the quartet, who are all ranked inside the world's top 100 singles players. Novak Djokovic is set to feature for Serbia in the tie on 23 November. "We will go to Malaga with confidence and belief that we can be successful," said captain Leon Smith, whose side are ranked two places higher than their last-eight opponents.
November 11, 20231 yr Author Katie Boulter claimed a dominant win to pull Great Britain level against Sweden in their Billie Jean King Cup play-off after Jodie Burrage lost on her debut. A nervous Burrage, ranked 279 places above opponent Kajsa Rinaldo Persson, let slip a 4-0 lead to lose 6-4 6-1. However, British number one Boulter got Britain back on track with a 6-2 6-1 win against Caijsa Hennemann at London's Copper Box Arena. The British pair will be back in action in the best-of-five series on Sunday.
December 6, 20231 yr Author Former champion Caroline Wozniacki has been awarded a wildcard for next month's Australian Open. The Dane, 33, retired in 2020 but returned in August after giving birth to her two children. Wozniacki reached the US Open fourth round in September on her Grand Slam comeback, losing to eventual winner Coco Gauff. The Australian Open at Melbourne Park starts on 14 January.
December 7, 20231 yr Author Britain's Emma Raducanu will make her comeback to the tennis tour in Auckland in the first week of January. The 2021 US Open champion has been out of action since April and has fallen to 296 in the world rankings following three operations. She has been awarded a wildcard into the ASB Classic, with US Open champion Coco Gauff and former world number one Caroline Wozniacki also in the line-up. The women's tournament at the Auckland Classic takes place from 1-7 January.
December 7, 20231 yr Author Two-time champion Rafael Nadal has been included on the entry list for the Australian Open after nearly a year out with injury, while Nick Kyrgios looks set to miss the tournament in January. Nadal, 37, has been out of action since injuring his hip flexor at the last Australian Open. The former world number one recently confirmed he would make his return at January's Brisbane International. Australian Kyrgios has had an injury-blighted 2023, missing all four majors. The 28-year-old, a Wimbledon finalist in 2022, has struggled with wrist, knee and foot injuries and said last month "the stars would need to align" for him to be fit for the first major of the year.
December 8, 20231 yr Author Former world number one Naomi Osaka has set her sights on the 2024 Paris Olympics as she prepares to return to action at the Brisbane International. The 26-year-old, who gave birth to her first child in July, has not played competitively since September 2022. The Brisbane International runs between 31 December and 7 January. "I definitely want to win more Grand Slams and I guess put in more time in the French Open and Wimbledon, and play the Paris Olympics," Osaka said. "I want to be someone that understands the game a lot more. In the first chapter of my tennis I kind of got away with just being myself and playing with my instincts."
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