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Hope Meyer, London (2026)

19/03/2024

World number two Aryna Sabalenka fell to a surprise defeat by Emma Navarro in the fourth round of Indian Wells.

Belarusian Sabalenka, who successfully defended her Australian Open title in January, lost 6-3 3-6 6-2 to the 23rd seed.

Navarro was cheered on by the California crowd as she reached her first WTA 1000 quarter-final.

Fellow American and third seed Coco Gauff claimed a 6-0 6-2 win over Belgium's Elise Mertens.

Playing on her 20th birthday, 2023 US Open champion Gauff wrapped up the first set in 25 minutes.

Mertens finally got on the board with a break and held serve to level the second set at 2-2, but Gauff regained control and won four games in a row to reach the last eight for a second straight year.

"I feel really good. That's my best match of the tournament so far and I'm obviously happy to get the win on my birthday," Gauff told Sky Sports.

Gauff and Navarro are bidding to become the first American women to win at Indian Wells since Serena Williams in 2001.

Gauff will play China's Yuan Yue, who beat Russian 11th seed Daria Kasatkina 4-6 6-4 6-3, in the semi-finals.

Navarro faces Greek ninth seed Maria Sakkari, a 6-2 3-6 6-3 winner over France's Diane Parry.

19/03/2024

Poland's Iga Swiatek claimed another dominant win over Maria Sakkari to clinch her second Indian Wells title.

In a repeat of the 2022 final, the world number one produced an almost identical score, beating Greece's Sakkari 6-4 6-0 in 69 minutes.

That secured a 19th career title for Swiatek, 22, and a second of the year having also won in Qatar last month.

"It's an amazing thing to be standing here again," she said. "Thank you for really making this feel like home."

Sakkari, 28, was playing in her 10th WTA final and hoped for her third title, but Swiatek charged into a 3-0 lead in California.

The world number nine broke back, but had to save two break points at 5-4, before Swiatek hit a forehand winner to clinch the first set.

07/03/2024

Britain's Andy Murray says he is not planning to "play much past this summer" but hopes to compete at another Olympic Games before he retires.

The future of the three-time Grand Slam champion, who turns 37 in May, has come under increased scrutiny after he has struggled for wins in recent months.

Murray lost to France's Ugo Humbert in the Dubai second round on Wednesday.

Before the 6-2 6-4 defeat, the Scot said he hoped to play at the Paris Olympics in the summer.

Afterwards, when asked again about his retirement plans, the former world number one gave his most definite answer yet.

"I get asked about it after every single match that I play, every single tournament that I play," added Murray.

"I'm bored of the question, to be honest. I'm not going to talk more about that between now and whenever the time comes for me to stop.

"But I don't plan on playing much past this summer."

Wimbledon, which runs from 1-14 July, marks the end of the British grass-court summer and the Olympics start in Paris on 24 July.

The US Open is the final Grand Slam tournament of the season and starts on 26 August in New York.

26/02/2024

British number one Cameron Norrie moved into the semi-finals of the Rio Open with a 6-1 3-6 6-2 victory over home favourite Thiago Seyboth Wild.

Defending champion Norrie wrapped the first set up in 30 minutes but an error-strewn second set allowed the Brazilian to level.

The 28-year-old raced to a 5-1 lead in the decider and sealed victory with his fifth match point.

"I was just really proud of how I fought hard," said Norrie.

"It was so humid and it was tough physically. I managed to break there in the end, so I'm proud of myself."

Norrie, ranked 23rd, has reached his first ATP Tour semi-final since May and will face 22-year-old Argentine qualifier and world number 113 Mariano Navone.

The other semi-final sees an all-Argentine encounter between Francisco Cerundolo and Sebastian Baez.

"I had a tough patch at the end of last year and I just wanted to stay strong. It's wins like this that make it count," added Norrie.

No player has won the Rio Open twice, while Norrie has joined Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz in reaching the semi-final of the tournament the year after winning it.

At the Los Cabos Open in Mexico, Norway's Casper Ruud beat Greece's defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4 7-6 (7-4) and will face either German top seed Alexander Zverev or Australian Jordan Thompson in the final.

15/02/2024

Harriet Dart reached her first semi-final on the WTA Tour with victory over Spain's Nuria Parrizas-Diaz at the Transylvania Open.

The British number three, who came through qualifying at the event in Cluj, Romania, won 6-3 6-2.

Dart, 27, will face Czech former world number one Karolina Pliskova, who beat Italy's Sara Errani 6-2 6-0, next.

She will rise to a provisional 92nd in the world rankings, eight places shy of her career best of 84th.

Dart had lost her four previous WTA Tour quarter-finals, all coming on British grass.

Having lost to Parrizas-Diaz in the final of January's second-tier Canberra Open, Dart got off to a shaky start against the Spaniard when she was broken in the opening game by her unseeded opponent.

But she immediately broke back to start a winning run of four successive games, before forcing Parrizas-Diaz to save four break points to hold serve.

After seeing out the opening set at the first opportunity, Dart proceeded to go a double break up at the start of the second.

She and Parrizas-Diaz traded further breaks before the Briton sealed her progression to the last four on her second match point.

"I'm really excited to keep it going," said Dart.

"I don't think either of us played particularly good tennis, I think both of us were a bit nervous.

"I was just happy that I fought really hard, kept my head together and managed to take the close games and the big moments."

09/02/2024

Britain's Emma Raducanu was denied a place in the Abu Dhabi Open quarter-finals by second seed Ons Jabeur.

Competing as a wildcard in Abu Dhabi, the 21-year-old Raducanu lost 6-4 6-1 to the Tunisian world number six.

A surprise US Open champion in 2021, Raducanu made her Grand Slam return at last month's Australian Open after missing the final eight months of 2023 following wrist and ankle surgeries.

Jabeur, 29, will play Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia in the last eight.

Jabeur, a three-time Grand Slam finalist, was in impressive form and hit 35 winners and eight aces on her way to a dominant win.

She led by a double break at 5-1 in the first set before Raducanu threatened a fightback - the Briton breaking back and saving four set points before Jabeur served out the opener to love.

But Raducanu could not prevent Jabeur storming to a straight-set victory from there and she sealed her progress in style by taking six successive games.

British number four Heather Watson will take on Spain's Cristina Bucsa on Thursday, when top seed Elena Rybakina also returns to action against American Danielle Collins.

02/02/2024

Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray says he "won't quit" tennis despite being in a "terrible moment".

The Briton, 36, is winless in 2024 after Monday's first-round loss to Benoit Paire at the Open Sud de France.

Murray also suffered a first-round exit at the Australian Open, while his last ATP Tour victory was in October.

On Tuesday, he responded to a BBC reporter's post on X, which asked when Murray should "call time on an extraordinary career".

The post linked to an article which said while the Scot's status as a legend was secure "at what point does bravely soldiering on start to damage his legacy?"

"Tarnishing my legacy? Do me a favour," two-time Wimbledon champion Murray wrote in reply.

"I'm in a terrible moment right now, I'll give you that.

"Most people would quit and give up in my situation right now. But I'm not most people and my mind works differently.

"I won't quit. I will keep fighting and working to produce the performances I know I'm capable of."

The article asked whether Murray's "refusal to back down from a challenge" was doing him "more harm than good".

World number 49 Murray has suffered nine defeats in 13 matches since the start of the US Open in August.

The former British and world number one defied the odds to return from hip replacement surgery in 2019.

22/01/2024

Third seed Daniil Medvedev was pushed hard by Portugal's Nuno Borges but came through in four sets to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals.

Two-time finalist Medvedev failed to convert two match points at 5-4 in the third set before winning 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-1.

"He made me run [in the] third set," Medvedev said.

He will face ninth seed Hubert Hurkacz next after the Pole ended wildcard Arthur Cazaux's brilliant run.

France's Cazaux had beaten eighth seed Holger Rune in the second round but could not cause another upset as Hurkacz won 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-3) 6-4.

Later on Monday, Spain's second seed Carlos Alcaraz faces Serb Miomir Kecmanovic.

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