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Seventy-two minutes, start to finish Half an hour. That is all the first set took. Ignacio Buse ran through Arthur Fery 6-3, 6-2 in the Winston-Salem Open final overnight, and the whole thing was over in 72 minutes. The Peruvian, seeded third, broke the Brit three times in the second set alone. Four of seven…

Two absences that say plenty The men’s draw at the US Open opens without its world number one. Jannik Sinner has pulled out. Carlos Alcaraz is back, but only just: the defending champion at Flushing Meadows has not played an ATP match since April, when a wrist problem forced him out of Barcelona. That withdrawal…

Aryna Sabalenka defends 2,000 points in New York. Elena Rybakina can replace her at the top of the rankings without even reaching the final.

Two players ranked one place apart meet for the Winston-Salem title. One has already won a tour event this year. The other has never played a final.

Seven set points, none of them taken One at 5-3. One at 5-4. Five more in the tiebreak. Ann Li had seven chances to close out the opening set in Monterrey and let all of them slip. Diane Parry took the breaker 9-7 and never gave the set back, beating the American 7-6 (7), 6-4…

Sinner is out and Alcaraz is barely match-fit, yet the ATP field has never looked further behind them. Opta ran the numbers back to 1990.

A new role for the former world No. 6 Gilles Simon is joining the French Tennis Federation. The body said on Wednesday that he has been appointed director of high performance, with a brief focused on “working close to the field and supporting players with major potential”. A winner of 14 ATP titles before hanging…

Six losses, then the spark Yuliia Starodubtseva arrived in Monterrey on a run of six straight defeats. She is leaving with a quarter-final spot. The 26-year-old Ukrainian beat seventh seed Janice Tjen 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of the Abierto GNP Seguros, overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. The numbers tell the story: 5-0 in aces,…

82 minutes, and the top seed is gone An hour and 22 minutes. That was the whole thing. Daniil Medvedev arrived in Winston-Salem as the top seed and the world No. 8, and he lost his opening match 7-5, 6-3 to Martin Damm, a 22-year-old American who had never taken down a top-10 player in…