Tennis

Frances Tiafoe’s quarterfinal opponent will be Australian Aleksandar Vukic, who knocked out eighth seed Adrian Mannarino of France.

Carlos Alcaraz will lock horns with Rafael Nadal in the semi-final of the Kings Six Kings Slam in Riyadh on Thursday.

The Italian World No.1 Sinner edged out 24-time Grand Slam winner Djokovic 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 in a hard-fought contest on Sunday to deny the Serbian his 100th career title.

Novak Djokovic praised Rafael Nadal for his 'tenacity, dedication, fighting spirit'.

Serbian Djokovic, a four-time champion in Shanghai, steamrolled his 30th-ranked Italian Cobolli to post a 6-1, 6-2 in just over an hour.

American Gauff breezed past Czech Muchova 6-1, 6-3 in one hour, 16 minutes to clinch the title in the Chinese capital city on Sunday.

Zhang Shuai again made a nonsense of her ranking against the world number 31 from Poland.

In the women's draw, the wildcard entry Zhang, who on Wednesday won her first singles match in more than 600 days, stunned US Open semi-finalist Emma Navarro 6-4, 6-2.

The four-time Grand Slam champion last week said at the Laver Cup that the schedule is "going to kill us", adding his voice to the growing number of players speaking out.

India were hammered 0-4 by Sweden and AITA secretary Anil Dhupar said absence of top players like Nagal and Yuki Bhambri in the squad hurt the national team's chances of doing well

Bob Bryan's side belied their underdog status in terms of rankings to down the more fancied South Americans 3-0 in their group stage opener in Zhuhai.

Sumit Nagal says he's been advised rest to deal with a back issue leaving him "without enough time to prepare and compete in Sweden."

The previous longest US Open match was Stefan Edberg's victory over Michael Chang in the 1992 semi-finals, which lasted five hours and 26 minutes with Edberg winning 6-7 (3/7), 7-5, 7-6 (7/3), 5-7, 6-4.

Coco Gauff will start her US Open title defence against France's Varvara Gracheva in the first round.

The tournament will be played in a 25-point format in which each franchise will play a total of five matches to make the semifinals.

Belarusian Sabalenka posted a 6-3, 6-3 win over World Number 1 Swiatek in the semifinal of the event in Cincinnati on Sunday in a hard fought contest.