Tennis

Alcaraz stepped up his 2023 title defense with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime , while Sinner was equally ruthless as he attacked Struff, with the Italian winning his 17th match in succession.

The 36-year-old Serb captured the 400th Masters-level victory of his career, joining Rafael Nadal as the only men to reach the 400 milestone at the elite level.

The Romanian's four-year doping suspension was reduced by CAS to nine months, and the two-time Grand Slam champion already has missed more time than that. Hence she will be permitted to return to action as and when she pleases.

The 27-year-old, whose only previous WTA crown came at Nottingham last June, moves into the world rankings top 30 for the first time in her career.

Andy Murray has won just two of his eight matches this season and appears ready to put an end to his storied career.

Swiss icon Federer shared a video clip of him travelling in a tuk-tuk during his travel to Thailand along with an amusing caption.

At 18 years and five months, Mensik is the fifth youngest ATP finalist since 2005 and youngest since Alcaraz went to the Umag championship match in 2021.

Indian Poonacha sealed his place in the quarterfinal as he got the better of the much-fancied compatriot Nagal 6-4, 6-3 in their clash lasting over one hour and nine minutes.

Vavassori, who stunned three-time major winner Andy Murray on clay at the Madrid Masters last year, matched the Spanish star blow-for-blow in the opening set.

US Open champion Gauff dropped serve six times in an error-strewn display, blowing a 4-0 lead in the second set.

Ramkumar Ramanathan managed to fight back after being a set down to defeat Maxime Janvier in the second round of the Bengaluru Open.

The 22-year-old Volynets dashed the hopes of 21-year-old South Korean lucky loser Sohyun Park, racing to a quick 6-1, 6-2 win, while Hartono reached the singles semi-finals after Japan's Moyuka Uchijima retired with the Dutchwoman leading 6-3, 4-3.

Elena Rybakina went down the first set before bouncing back to clinch the next two.

The 27-year-old is coming into the fresh season on the back of a decent show in 2023 in which he ended a runner-up at the ITF 15k event in Thailand and also reached the semi-finals in three other tournaments.

Naomi Osaka returned last month from a 15-month absence from the tour, during which she gave birth to her first child Shai, but has been handed some tricky draws and lost three of her four matches so far this campaign.

Shrivalli Bhamidipatty pulled off a stunning upset over second seed Nao Hibino as Rutuja Bhosale and Prarthana Thombare also got wins at Mumbai Open.