Tennis

World number two Djokovic, who has won a record 24 Grand Slam singles crowns, was last year's champion at Cincinnati.

Djokovic has long enjoyed the status of a living legend in Serbia, where the Belgrade native and winner of 24 Grand Slam titles ran a tennis academy for years and frequently attends sporting events and meets with officials.

Nadal was largely outclassed by Djokovic in the much anticipated encounter, only coming briefly to life when he won four games in a row in the second set.

Top seed Novak Djokovic could face 14-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal in a blockbuster second-round match in the men's singles at Paris Olympics.

Jasmine Paolini, who was seventh seed at Wimbledon, will rise to number five in the WTA rankings despite losing in the women's singles final.

The All England Club's grass has always given her the most trouble at any major tournament as a pro, although the 23-year-old from Poland did win the junior trophy as a teenager.

Murray and Raducanu were scheduled to play Zhang Shuai and Marcelo Arevalo in the fourth match on Court One on Saturday.

It may not quite be the end for British great Andy Murray at Wimbledon but it felt like it as the 37-year-old received an emotional farewell after he and brother Jamie were beaten in the first round of the men's doubles.

Holder Alcaraz got the beating of Alexander Vukic in straight sets 7-6 (5), 6-2, 6-2 despite a slow start to move into the third round of the grass-court major, while Gauff breezed past Anca Todoni 6-2, 6-1 to advance.

The Brit went under the knife after experiencing weakness and a loss of coordination in his right leg while playing at Queen's last month and to remove a spinal cyst. However, the former SW19 Champion will team up with brother Jamie in the doubles event a...

Day 1 of the tournament’s 137th edition commences today, July 1.

Kasatkina now faces Fernandez, beaten in the 2021 US Open final by Britain's Emma Raducanu, with the Canadian bidding for a fourth title in her career.

The Olympic-bound Nagal jumped six places following his runner-up finish at the Perugia ATP Challenger tournament on Sunday. The 26-year-old, who will be the sole Indian in the men's singles event at the Paris Olympics, has so far logged 777 ATP points.

Sumit Nagal produced a feeble effort to go down against Luciano Darderi of Italy in a lop-sided final of the Perugia Challenger.

The International Tennis Federation cleared Osaka to compete in Paris by awarding her a special ranking for players who have been away from the tour. The singles event at the Olympics is limited to 64 players with a maximum of four from each nation.

The 38-year-old Spaniard stated that he will not be part of the grass-court grand slam this year as he is focused on the quadrennial event in France and has been training on clay court.