'It's pretty amazing to get the call from the Spanish king'
'To win a medal, the players will have to play a couple of tough rounds. The draws are fine, and balanced and give us the opportunity to go deep.'
Should Carlos Alcaraz win Queen's final against Alex de Minaur he would reclaim the world number one ranking from Novak Djokovic.
US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz has become the youngest world number one since the ATP rankings began in 1973.
Russian and Belarusian players will be allowed to compete at the US Open this year but only as neutrals, the United States Tennis Association (USTA) announced on Tuesday.
Matteo Berrettini won the Stuttgart Open for a second time after he beat Andy Murray 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 on Sunday to deny the Scot what would have been his first title on grass in six years.
A Delhi court has allowed Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, accused in Aircel-Maxis and INX Media scam cases, to travel to Spain and the United Kingdom from June 25 to July 17.
Officials and politicians in Basel have begun discussions on how to honour the 20-time Grand Slam singles champion
The Indians will now lock horns with top seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Brazilian Marcelo Melo in the summit clash of the of the ATP 250 event.
Andy Murray said he expects the Wimbledon organisers to lift the ban on Russian and Belarusian players.
Sinner has made the most of a favourable draw at the grasscourt major this year
The match marked world number two Medvedev's ninth win in a row at the ATP Finals and he improved his head-to-head record over Ruud to 3-0.
Monfils, 35, reached the last four at the 2008 French Open and repeated the feat eight years later at the 2016 US Open but has never reached a Grand Slam final.
As a sporting spectacle Alcaraz and Djokovic matches have delivered on every level and would be worthy of the Big Apple spotlight.
Reigning Paris Masters champion Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in a three-set epic on Saturday to set up a title clash with Holger Rune, who reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final after a comfortable win over Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Wimbledon was the only Grand Slam to ban competitors from Russia and Belarus last year.
18-year-old Carlos Alcaraz earned his first ATP Masters 1000 crown
Another Indian pair of N Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan will also be seen in the semi-finals after their opponents, Gianluca Mager and Emil Ruusuvuori withdrew from the last-eight match due to an injury to the former.
Earlier, title holder Borna Coric beat American Sebastian Korda 7-6 (5), 6-4, while another home hope Taylor Fritz survived a first-set thriller to beat Czech Jiri Lehecka 7-6 (14), 6-2.
'There is so much excitement brewing about Wednesday's Alcaraz and Rune quarter-finals showdown -- it could well be a juicy foretaste of things to come.'
Zverev deserved to be thrown out for umpire abuse, says Nadal
The 18-year-old Rune broke world number three Zverev four times in a flawless performance for his first win over a player in the ATP top-10
Nick Kyrgios was given a warning for taking too long to return Tsitsipas's serve
Dominic Thiem defeated qualifier Facundo Bagnis of Argentina 6-4, 7-5 in the first round of the Plava Laguna Croatia Open Umag
Kosovo's tennis federation has accused Serbia's Novak Djokovic of aggravating an already tense situation after the world number three wrote that Kosovo was "the heart of Serbia" on a camera lens.
Nadal believes he had no reason to feel alarmed ahead of the season's first Grand Slam starting in two weeks.
Djokovic's official website also confirmed his participation in the Dubai tournament.
The trio have dominated men's tennis over the last 20 years and played a major role in shaping the direction of the sport
US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz crashed to defeat on his debut as world number one, losing to Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime in their Davis Cup Finals group-stage clash on Friday.
Andy Murray knows his way around the All England Club better than any player and can give most top seeds a run for their money.
Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time.
Wimbledon last week had its ranking points taken away by the men's ATP and women's WTA after the grasscourt major opted to exclude players from Russia and Belarus
The German is the first lucky loser to reach the final of a Masters 1000 event.
Rohan Bopanna became the oldest ATP Masters 1000 champion when he and his Australian partner Matt Ebden claimed the men's doubles crown
'The ITIA accepts that the player did not intend to cheat, that his violation was inadvertent and unintentional, and that he bears no significant fault or negligence for it.'
For Billie Jean King, her leading role in the foundation of the WTA half a century ago ranks above the many successes she enjoyed on court.
A round-up of all the tennis action from around the globe.
Wimbledon announced that it had barred all Russian and Belarusian players from this year's championships
'Of course I am happy to reach No. 1. It was my goal since I was young and especially my goal in the latest times.'
Spanish teenager Carlos Alcaraz won his second ATP Masters 1000 title at the Madrid Open after defeating defending champion Alexander Zverev 6-3, 6-1 in front of his home crowd on Sunday.
