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Great Britain’s men’s and junior wheelchair tennis teams were both crowned BNP Paribas World Team Cup champions in Vilamoura Portugal, after Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid secured a 2-0 victory over defending champions the Netherlands in the men’s final and Ruben Harris and Joshua Johns sealed a...

The prize money for this year's French Open will total 49.6 million euros (£43.14m), up 12.3 per cent on 2022, organisers of the clay court Grand Slam announced on Friday. The amount offered for the Roland Garros singles draws will be raised by 9.1 per cent on 2022, with organisers saying in a...

Rafa Nadal has turned down a wildcard offer for next week's Challenger tournament in Bordeaux as his participation in the French Open hangs in the balance, the clay-court event director has said. Nadal has not played since the Australian Open in January due to a hip injury and is battling to be...

Elena Rybakina expects a tougher test against world No 1 Iga Swiatek when the pair face off on clay at the Italian Open. Rybakina downed Swiatek in straight sets at the Australian Open in January and ended her title defence at Indian Wells with both matches played on hardcourts, where the...

Rafael Nadal will hold a news conference at his tennis academy in Spain on Thursday amid media reports that he is going to miss the French Open for the first time since he won the first of his record 14 titles there on his debut in 2005. Nadal has been sidelined by an injured left hip flexor...

Two-time defending champion Iga Swiatek retired in the third set of her Italian Open quarter-final against Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina due to a right thigh injury. It was 2-2 in the third when the top-ranked Swiatek retired after more than two hours of play. She had won the first set 6-2...

Ukraine's Anhelina Kalinina said she was determined to give her war-torn country something to cheer about with her achievements on the tennis court after beating Russian 11th seed Veronika Kudermetova to reach the final of the Italian Open. Kalinina's entire family is now in Kyiv following...

Holger Rune battled from a set and break down to seal a 6-7(2) 6-4 6-2 win over world number four Casper Ruud in an absorbing all-Scandinavian Italian Open semi-final on Saturday and will face Daniil Medvedev for the title. Medvedev, who has repeatedly said he feels more comfortable on...

Italian Open organisers have promised to install a retractable roof over the tennis court by 2026 in the wake of delays at this year’s tournament. On Saturday, the semi-final between Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas was suspended due to rain for a total of nearly four hours, pushing the...

Britain’s Fran Jones has reached the second round of French Open qualifying after dumping out two-time Grand Slam semi-finalist Coco Vandeweghe. Jones, ranked 316 in the world, beat world No 164 Vandeweghe 6-3 6-3 in an hour and 11 minutes to set up a meeting with Switzerland's Ylena In-Albon...

British pair Harriet Dart and Katie Boulter maintained their hopes of reaching the main draw of the French Open with victories in the first round of qualifying. Dart, who played in the first round of the tournament last year, got off to a good start with a 6-3 4-6 6-4 success over Katrina Scott...

Great Britain will have a home tie against Sweden in the Billie Jean King Cup play-offs in November. Anne Keothavong's side must win in order to make it into next year's qualifier where they will get a chance to go to the 2024 end-of-year finals. They lost to France in this year's attempt...

Russian player Yana Sizikova has been cleared of match-fixing and will take her place in this year’s French Open, the player’s lawyer has said. Sizikova was taken into police custody during the 2021 event at Roland Garros as part of an investigation into match-fixing allegations dating back to...

British No 1 Cameron Norrie continued his solid run in the Lyon Open with victory over sixth seed Sebastian Baez to reach the semi-finals. The defending champion secured a 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 victory in his quarter-final clash with Baez, who he defeated at the same stage in last year's competition...

Casper Ruud's run at a third straight Geneva Open title ended in a 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-5 loss to Nicols Jarry in the quarter-finals on Thursday. The top-seeded Ruud had his serve broken at 5-5 in the third set after the 54th-ranked Chilean fired two powerful forehand winners. Jarry's serve held up...

Sport England measure the number of people who have played a sport twice in the past 28 days (averaged across a year from November to November), and their data demonstrates that 915,000 adults were playing tennis this regularly in England from November 2021 to November 2022. This is the highest...

The WTA have released its calendar for the latter part of 2023 following a decision in April to resume operations in China, with the Asian nation hosting a WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing in September. China will also host a WTA 500 tournament in Zhengzhou, apart from 250 events in Guangzhou...

Rafael Nadal has undergone surgery in Barcelona on Friday on his left psoas muscle. Nadal's spokesman, Benito Perez-Barbadillo, said three doctors were involved in the procedure. The results are due to come on Saturday - his 37th birthday. The Spaniard sustained the injury during his...

Third seed Jessica Pegula became the highest-ranked women's casualty so far at the French Open, falling in the third round to Elise Mertens. American Pegula had lost both her previous meetings with Mertens and this was a one-sided affair, the Belgian 28th seed triumphing 6-1 6-3 on Philippe...

Roland Garros organisers claimed Sabalenka talked to a hand-picked group of journalists in a 'press conference' after easing past Rakhimova, but it is understood all the questions were asked by a WTA employee. It is not yet clear whether Sabalenka, who is through to the fourth round in Paris...