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WorldJan-Lennard Struff, 36, defeated fourth seed Novak Djokovic 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (5) on Thursday evening to reach the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors Basel. It was the German's first win over Djokovic after eight previous meetings, and he sealed it with an ace. The defeat damages Djokovic's hopes of qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin.
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In their first meeting on tour, the Vienna match between the two Italians lasted only seven games before fourth seed Flavio Cobolli retired in tears while trailing 5-2 in the opening set, apparently with a muscle injury. Matteo Berrettini put his arms around his compatriot instead of celebrating and moved into the Vienna quarterfinals.
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Top seed Alexander Zverev defeated Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday evening to reach the quarterfinals of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna. The German did not face a single break point in the match, and the win was exactly what he needed to become world No. 1 on November 2, the 30th player to hold the ranking in ATP Tour history. He turned to his box in tears after sealing it.
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Juan Carlos Ferrero, a former world No. 1, addressed the end of his coaching partnership with Carlos Alcaraz in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo while presenting his autobiography Mentalidad ganadora, published by Ediciones Península. The partnership ended a year ago, and Ferrero had previously preferred to let results speak for him. He has now given his fullest public account of why the collaboration came to an end.
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Carlos Alcaraz has advanced to the quarter-finals in Vienna. No further details of the match were provided in the source.
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Elena Rybakina clinched the WTA Year-End No.1 singles ranking for the first time with her opening win at the WTA 500 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, becoming the 17th player in WTA history and the first from Kazakhstan to do so. She won the Australian Open and the US Open in 2026, plus WTA 500 titles in Stuttgart and Ningbo, a Tour-leading four for the season. She will receive the Chris Evert WTA World No.1 Trophy at the WTA Finals in Indian Wells, where she defends her title.
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Frank Sedgman, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion and the oldest living Australian, will appear on the official Australian Open 2027 match coin as he turns 99. He was the first Australian to win the US Open, in 1951, and collected 22 Grand Slam titles in all, while helping Australia to three straight Davis Cup crowns from 1950 to 1952.
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Seven of the players chasing the five remaining places at the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin (Nov. 15-22) are in action on Thursday in Vienna and Basel. A win over Cameron Norrie would take Daniil Medvedev to 3,710 points in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin and back into fifth place.
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Slovakian 18-year-old Mia Pohankova beat four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka 6-3, 7-5 at the Pan Pacific Open. It was only her fourth appearance in the main draw of a WTA event and her first match against a player ranked inside the world's top 20.
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Switzerland's Dylan Dietrich, ranked No. 254, beat top seed and World No. 94 Jenson Brooksby 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the MarketBeat Open. The 22-year-old from Zurich was facing a Top 100 opponent for the first time and needed only 1 hour, 12 minutes, converting three of seven break points. He next meets J.J. Wolf, a 7-6(7), 7-6(3) winner over Daniel Milavsky.
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Third seed Daniil Medvedev beat 22-year-old Spaniard Daniel Merida 7-6(5), 6-1 in the first round of the ATP 500 Erste Bank Open in Vienna, sealing his 50th tour-level win of the season in an hour and 27 minutes. The world No. 5, who won the Almaty title three days earlier, recovered from 3-0 down in the opening set and said the unusually slow indoor surface had surprised him. He faces Britain's Cameron Norrie next.
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The second edition of the Costa do Sauipe Open runs from November 1 to 8 at the Costa do Sauipe Resorts tennis complex in Bahia, Brazil's only ATP Challenger 125 event, with US$225,000 in prize money and 125 ranking points for the champion. Current Top 100 players Roman Andres Burruchaga, Facundo Diaz Acosta and Camilo Ugo Carabelli headline, joined by six former Top 100 names including Marco Cecchinato, Thiago Seyboth Wild, Francisco Comesana, Hugo Dellien, Tomas Barrios Vera and Juan Pablo Varillas. Brazil's next generation is represented by 2026 Roland Garros boys' champion Luis Guto Miguel, Gustavo Heide and Joao Lucas Reis da Silva.
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Novak Djokovic, the No. 4 seed in Basel, dropped the opening set before beating France's Ugo Humbert 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in 2h29 on Wednesday evening to reach the last 16 of the Swiss Indoors. The result puts the Serb back inside the Top 10 and keeps his Nitto ATP Finals bid alive.
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Top seed Jenson Brooksby beat wild card Bryce Nakashima 6-3, 6-3 in his Sioux Falls debut, stretching his ATP Challenger winning run to six matches. Third seed Darwin Blanch needed 58 minutes to see off Sebastian Gorzny 6-4, 6-2, while No. 2 seed Valentin Royer edged Timo Legout 6-3, 7-6(6). Eight Americans reached the second round, where Brooksby meets Dylan Dietrich of Switzerland.
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A Ubitennis feature looks at Stan Wawrinka's career during the era ruled by Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic. According to the piece, those four players claimed 69 of the 79 Grand Slam titles contested between 2004 and 2023.
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Six men chasing a place in Turin are in action on Wednesday. Alex de Minaur, first outside the cut, can move to within 254 points of Rafael Jodar by beating Learner Tien in Vienna. In Basel, Novak Djokovic starts against Ugo Humbert while sitting 344 points off the cut, and Taylor Fritz meets Rinky Hijikata on his 29th birthday.
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Top seed Alexander Zverev survived a three-hour, five-minute first-round battle with Spanish wild card Martin Landaluce in Vienna, winning 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (11) for his tour-leading 63rd victory of 2026. The German saved four match points in a 24-point third-set tie-break before converting his fifth. Zverev will become World No. 1 ahead of Jannik Sinner next Monday if he wins his second-round match and reaches the quarterfinals.
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Sloane Stephens tops the women's standings of the 2027 Australian Open Wild Card Challenge with 106 points after Week 3 of 5, ahead of Reese Brantmeier on 95. Jenson Brooksby leads the men's list with 75 points after Week 1, having won the Fort Worth ATP Challenger 75 by beating Darwin Blanch. The USTA and Tennis Australia exchange main draw singles wild cards under a reciprocal agreement.
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Jannik Sinner has spoken at length for the first time about the right knee injury that ended his season. In an interview with D, the weekly magazine of la Repubblica, the Italian described the body as the one opponent that cannot be beaten and said that when it asks you to stop, you have to accept it and follow the specialists.
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Eighth seed Jiri Lehecka beat 41-year-old Stan Wawrinka 7-5, 7-6 (2) in the first round of the Swiss Indoors Basel on Tuesday. The match closed a career that ran across 24 years on tour, from 2002 to 2026. The Basel crowd was still cheering the Swiss as he served out the final point of his professional career.
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The Nexo Dallas Open has announced that Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe will headline its 2027 field at the ATP 500 event. The tournament runs Feb. 6-14, 2027 at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco. Shelton returns as defending champion after beating top seed Fritz in the 2026 final, which drew a sellout crowd of more than 6,000.
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World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz opened his campaign at the ATP 500 event in Vienna with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win over Russia's Karen Khachanov in two hours and four minutes. The 23-year-old wild card and No. 2 seed improved to 10-0 in opening-round matches this season and extended his ATP 500 run to 22 straight wins. Alcaraz saved the win on a fourth match point and spoke afterwards about the atmosphere on Centre Court.
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Second seed Carlos Alcaraz beat Karen Khachanov 6-4, 7-6 (5) on Tuesday to reach the last 16 of the Erste Bank Open in Vienna. Khachanov had saved three match points and was serving for the second set at 6-5, but Alcaraz broke him to love and took the tiebreak 7-5. Austrian wildcard Jurij Rodionov is next for the Spaniard.
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Stan Wawrinka was celebrated in a special presentation at the Swiss Indoors on Monday evening, on the eve of the final tournament of his career. The 41-year-old retires this week in Basel after more than two decades on the Tour. He is among the few players to have won multiple majors.
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Rafael Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam singles champion, will headline The MGM Slam Presented by Capital One on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2027 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, his first appearance on hard courts since retiring in November 2024. Pre-sale tickets open Oct. 27 for MGM Rewards and AXS members, with the public on-sale set for Oct. 30. Organisers say the remaining players, the event format and the broadcast partner will be announced in the coming weeks.
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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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Holger 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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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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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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