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He plays fast. Serves hard. Wins. In Dubai, Felix Auger-Aliassime is riding a wave. As top seed, the Canadian bossed Jiri Lehecka 6-3, 7-6 in the quarters in a controlled, no-nonsense display. Into the semis. Next up: a massive showdown with Daniil Medvedev. First set: total control Felix set the tone from the off. Clean…

Dubai’s centre court smelled like the end of an era. Stan Wawrinka and Daniil Medvedev met for the sixth time. A generational clash, almost symbolic. In the end, logic won. Medvedev 6-2, 6-3. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Because this match was more than a scoreline. Medvedev in control, Wawrinka gutsy Daniil…

The Mexican night served up contrasts for the French. Revival, confirmation, disappointment — Acapulco handed down its verdict. Four Frenchmen started the first round of this ATP 500. Two survive. Two head home. And one result felt bigger than the rest. Monfils stops the slide and gets the engine running At 39, Gaël Monfils has…

He’d drawn the short straw. Scratch that — the worst possible draw. Drawing the defending champion first up can kill your week. For Ugo Humbert it did the opposite. In Dubai the Frenchman put in a commanding performance to dump Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. Clean. Sharp. Unfazed. After that early exit in…

The Austin crowd wanted a spark. A flash. A vintage night. It never came. At 45, Venus Williams suffered her seventh straight main-tour loss, dumped 6-4, 6-1 by Ajla Tomljanovic in the first round of the Texas WTA 250. A promising start, then the inevitable slide. She refuses to quit. Her body doesn’t always keep…

In Dubai the spotlight doesn’t only fall on the big names. After Tsitsipas’s shock exit, the French had a say — and it was a two-act evening. Arthur Rinderknech grit his teeth and hauled himself out of trouble. Valentin Royer, by contrast, ran into someone he couldn’t handle. Rinderknech avenges Melbourne and turns Marozsan over…

Acapulco shock On tour there are nights when everything unravels. Nights when the favourite trips up, when sport’s logic goes missing, and a court turns into a plot twist. That’s exactly what happened in humid Acapulco when Alex de Minaur, world No.6 fresh off Rotterdam, saw his momentum smashed by a player ranked outside the…

A young Frenchman shaped by outside influence Arthur Fils has opened a new chapter in his fledgling career like you’d crack a window for fresh air. Days after his eye-catching run at the ATP 500 in Doha — stopped cold by Carlos Alcaraz in the final — he turned up on Marion Bartoli’s RMC Sport…

Carlos Alcaraz: four Slams and a shock By beating Novak Djokovic last Sunday in the Australian Open final, Carlos Alcaraz grabbed his fourth Grand Slam. Twenty-two, still with a boyish grin, a forehand already part of the highlight reels, and a new tag: the youngest player to tick off all four majors. On paper, that…