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WorldHolger Rune beat France's Quentin Halys 6-4, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5) on Monday evening in Basel to reach the last 16 of the Swiss Indoors. It was the Dane's first ATP Tour victory in 373 days, sealed in a match that featured two tiebreaks.
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According to The Times, Jannik Sinner has hired Magnus Norman as his new coach. One of his current coaches is reported to be retiring at the end of this season. Sinner, the current world No. 1, has turned to the highly experienced Norman, who previously coached Stan Wawrinka.
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Matteo Berrettini beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 6-4 in 83 minutes in the first round of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, hitting 12 aces with the fastest at 220 km/h. He saved all six break points he faced and reached the second round for the fifth time in five appearances at the event. He next meets the winner of Flavio Cobolli against Grigor Dimitrov.
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Elena Rybakina is set to finish the year as the world number one. The source provides no further detail beyond that.
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Carlos Alcaraz, who missed almost five months of the season with a right wrist injury, says he has plenty of positives to build on since returning to the Tour. The seven-time Grand Slam champion admits he still has work to do before reaching the level he wants.
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Jannik Sinner, the current world No. 1, has committed to playing at Saudi Arabia's Six Kings Slam, an event that was postponed over security concerns. Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority, announced his participation in a statement on Monday. The delayed event is set to be held later this year.
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Carlos Alcaraz returns to the Erste Bank Open in Vienna for the first time since 2021, a late addition made possible by the postponement of the Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia. The 23-year-old said he has played few tournaments this year and needs match rhythm, calling the draw extremely tough. He opens against Karen Khachanov on Tuesday, while top seed Alexander Zverev faces Spanish qualifier Martin Landaluce the same day.
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The 2026 Davis Cup Final 8 runs from 24 to 29 November in Bologna, with Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev and Flavio Cobolli all named in their national squads. The quarter-finals pit Czechia against Canada, Italy against Korea, Rep., Great Britain against Germany and Austria against Spain. Italy are chasing a fourth consecutive title, while Alcaraz returns to the competition for the first time since the 2024 Final 8.
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Germany captain Michael Kohlmann has named Alexander Zverev, Jan-Lennard Struff and the doubles pair of Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz for the Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna, held from November 24 to 29. The fifth place in the squad has been left open for now. Germany meet Great Britain in the quarterfinals on Thursday, November 26.
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Tallon Griekspoor beat Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Brussels ATP 250, recovering from a lost opening set for the third match in a row. He is the first Dutchman to win a tour-level indoor title since Martin Verkerk in Milan in 2003.
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The women's 1000-point tennis tournament was held in Shiraz at the Ace Tennis Academy, with Fatemeh Sadat Zanjani taking the singles title. Nastaran Choubineh finished as runner-up, while Ritach Nejadian and Lavin Hakimi shared third place. In doubles, Zanjani and Mitra Ebrahimi won the title ahead of Lavin Hakimi and Elin Hakimi.
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Filippo Romano, 21, claimed his first ATP Challenger Tour title by beating fellow Italian Michele Ribecai 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 in the final of the inaugural Banca Mediolanum Florence Open. The clay-court match lasted one hour and 49 minutes, with Romano hitting six aces and winning 68 per cent of his first-service points. The world No. 301 collected 8,550 euros in prize money and 50 ATP Ranking points.
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Lorenzo Musetti won the Lyon ATP 250 title by beating second seed Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4. The Italian had lost seven consecutive finals on the ATP Tour since his previous title in 2022. A day earlier he had saved four match points against Flavio Cobolli.
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Alexander Ritschard beat Russia's Svyatoslav Gulin 6-2, 6-1 in 62 minutes to win the Lisboa Belem Open, becoming the first player to claim the title twice in the tournament's 10 editions. The Swiss came through qualifying for his fifth ATP Challenger title and is set to climb around 200 places to No. 280. Ritschard, who had considered retiring this year because of shoulder, back and thigh injuries, described the win as a special moment.
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Daniil Medvedev defended a title for the first time in his career on Sunday, beating Georgian qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-3 in the final of the Almaty ATP 250. The top seed had 24 titles before this week but had lost all three finals he previously played as defending champion. He becomes the first man to win the Almaty Open twice.
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Elena Rybakina beat Canada's Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday in the final of the Ningbo WTA 500 to defend the title she won there last year. It was her first trophy as world No. 1 and her fourth of the season after the Australian Open, Stuttgart and the US Open, leaving her alone atop the tour's list for most titles in 2026. The Kazakh now has 15 career titles.
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The singles and doubles draws for the Challenger de Guayaquil have been announced, with main-draw play starting on Monday, October 26. Chile's Nicolas Jarry meets Bolivia's Hugo Dellien in the first round, a matchup Jarry leads 3-1 after four previous meetings. Top seed Camilo Ugo Carabelli faces fellow Argentine Federico Coria, while qualifying begins Sunday at the Guayaquil Tenis Club.
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Alexander Zverev is set to end 2026 as the world No.1 and could secure the position as early as next week. Reaching the quarter-finals of the Vienna Open or better would be enough to confirm it. With the season still running, he has already set out one of his main goals for next year.
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Katerina Siniakova became the first Czech player to win the Osaka WTA 250, beating American Ashlyn Krueger 6-1, 6-0 in 68 minutes on Sunday. It is the sixth singles title of her career and her first since Nanchang in 2023. The 30-year-old had finished runner-up in Osaka in 2016, losing to Christina McHale 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
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Taylor Fritz defeated Tommy Paul 6-3 7-5 in a high-quality Lyon semi-final to reach the title match. The win improves the American's chances of qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals. Flavio Cobolli, meanwhile, missed out on a place in the final.
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Daniil Medvedev will move ahead of Flavio Cobolli into fifth place in the ATP Finals race if he wins Sunday's Almaty final against Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili. Cobolli remains on 3,640 points after squandering four match points in a 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 semifinal defeat to Lorenzo Musetti in Lyon on Saturday. Medvedev, currently sixth in the race, reached the final without completing his semifinal.
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Top seed Alexander Zverev spoke to the media before the main draw of the Erste Bank Open, praising Vienna, the tournament organisation and the atmosphere at the Wiener Stadthalle. The reigning French Open and US Open champion will clinch the year-end No. 1 ranking if he reaches the quarterfinals in Vienna. He opens against Spain's Martin Landaluce, with the winner of Tallon Griekspoor against Brandon Nakashima awaiting in the round of 16, and says completing the career Grand Slam is among his next goals.
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Jan-Lennard Struff, 36, recovered from a break down twice in the deciding set, including with Arthur Fils serving for the match, to beat the top seed 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (5) on Saturday evening. The German becomes the second-oldest finalist in the history of the Brussels ATP 250 and will face Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands for the title.
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Tiago Pereira and Benjamin Winter Lopez took the Lisboa Belem Open doubles title, beating Karol Drzewiecki and Piotr Matuszewski 4-6, 6-3, 10-5 for their second ATP Challenger Tour crown as a pair. Pereira will rise to a career-high No. 102 in the doubles rankings on Monday. In singles, Alexander Ritschard beat top seed Marco Trungelliti 6-1, 6-4 and will meet Svyatoslav Gulin, who edged Elmer Moller 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, in Sunday's final.
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Lorenzo Musetti saved four match points against compatriot and top seed Flavio Cobolli on Saturday, winning 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to reach the final of the Lyon ATP 250 before a sell-out crowd of 10,000 at the LDLC Arena. The No. 6 seed had finished the longest match of his career only hours earlier, after 1 a.m., beating France's Luca Van Assche 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), 6-4 in the quarterfinals.
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Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands beat No. 3 seed Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Saturday to reach the final of the Brussels ATP 250. Cerundolo took the opening set and led 5-3 in the decider but could not serve it out. Griekspoor levelled at 5-5 and claimed the tiebreak 7-4.
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Alexander Bublik has said doctors advised him against playing his semifinal at the Almaty ATP 250 after injuring his right knee at the end of his quarterfinal win over Karen Khachanov. The No. 3 seed took the court against Daniil Medvedev on Saturday with the knee taped, then retired after dropping the opening set 6-3. Bublik said the injury occurred at 5-4 in the third-set tiebreak.
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Nikoloz Basilashvili, 34, defeated seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 in the Almaty Open semifinals on Saturday after two hours and 16 minutes. The world No. 128 came through qualifying at the ATP 250 event and has now won six matches in a row to reach his first tour-level final since 2022. He will meet defending champion and top seed Daniil Medvedev, who advanced when Alexander Bublik retired with injury while trailing 6-3.
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World No.1 Elena Rybakina continued her title defence at the Ningbo Open by beating sixth seed Diana Shnaider 6-3, 7-5 in Saturday's semi-finals. She had to work through difficult patches in both sets before closing out the win. Rybakina now leads their head-to-head 3-0.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas spoke up in defence of his head coach Patrick Mouratoglou, rejecting online doubts about the Frenchman's credentials and admitting he once thought of him as mainly a marketing talent. The Greek, seeded No. 7 at the Almaty ATP 250, made the comments after defeating Australia's James Duckworth 6-3, 6-4.
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Francisco Cerundolo, the World No. 21, beat French qualifier Clement Chidekh 6-2, 6-4 in one hour and 16 minutes to reach the quarter-final stage win and his 20th career ATP Tour semi-final in Brussels. The Argentine won 28 of 30 first-serve points and faced no break points. He next meets Tallon Griekspoor, who upset second seed Jiri Lehecka 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas described Gael Monfils as one of his best friends on tour, speaking in Almaty on Friday after reaching the semifinals. The Greek said tennis is losing a rare personality with the Frenchman's retirement and that he was saddened by it.
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Top seed Arthur Fils played his opening match of the week on Friday evening and beat American fifth seed Alex Michelsen 6-4, 7-6 (12) to reach the semi-finals of the Brussels ATP 250. Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff ended Belgian hopes in the singles draw by defeating sixth seed Zizou Bergs 6-3, 7-6 (6). The two will meet in the last four.
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Third seed Alexander Bublik came from a set down to beat Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(5) in the Almaty Open quarterfinals, striking 21 aces to Khachanov's eight. Nikoloz Basilashvili advanced with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Adrian Mannarino, hitting 11 aces and facing no break points. Seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas beat James Duckworth 6-3, 6-4 with 15 aces and no double faults.
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Patrick Mouratoglou said in a video posted on his social media channels that Alexander Zverev may not be the best player in the world but fully deserves his ranking. He argued that staying healthy is a skill in itself and forms part of a player's value.
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Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Bublik will face each other in the semifinals of the Almaty ATP 250 after winning their quarterfinals. Bublik, the No. 3 seed, dropped the opening set before beating No. 5 seed Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5). Medvedev, the top seed and defending champion, saw off France's Terence Atmane 6-4, 6-4.
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Taylor Fritz beat Germany's Daniel Altmaier 7-6 (5), 6-2 and Tommy Paul got past France's Corentin Moutet 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in Friday's quarterfinals at the Lyon ATP 250. Fritz is seeded No. 2 and Paul No. 4. No American had previously reached the semifinals of the event, which was staged in Marseille from 1993 to 2025.
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The 22nd edition of the Challenger Ciudad de Guayaquil runs from October 25 to November 1, 2026 on the clay courts of the Guayaquil Tennis Club in Ecuador, with a renewed visual identity unveiled at the official presentation. Qualifying starts on Sunday and the main draw begins on Monday, October 26. Organisers confirmed ESPN will broadcast both singles semi-finals and the final live for the eighth straight year, with Brazilian official Ricardo Reis serving as ATP supervisor.
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Emilija Tverijonaite, a 21-year-old from Lithuania, chose on 19 October 2026 to enter a voluntary provisional suspension under tennis' anti-doping rules. A WADA-accredited laboratory confirmed canrenone, a diuretic and masking agent, in a sample she gave at a World Tennis event in Mogyorod, Hungary, on 2 July 2026. The suspension was not mandatory for this substance, and time served will count against any future sanction.
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Iran's first national school tennis talent identification festival took place at the Persepolis complex in Fars province during Physical Education Week, under the slogan of peace through sport and friendship beyond borders. According to the tennis federation's public relations office, it was the first time an Iranian sporting event was staged at a registered world heritage site. More than 300 primary school pupils and 20 coaches took part across several assessment stations in a 1600 square metre area, and the festival was named after the workers lost in the Shiraz oil refinery incident.
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