Zverev is currently No. 2 but will overtake No. 1 Sinner before the season ends next month

Where does the tournament, modelled on golf’s Ryder Cup, stand in tennis? What does it bring to the sport? And for how long will its carefully engineered success endure?

The top five players in the women’s singles draw also booked their spots in the quarterfinals. Vaidehee Chaudhari defeated 16-year-old Ahaan Ahaan 6-4, 6-1, while Shruti Ahlawat beat Parthsarthi Mundhe 6-2, 6-2

Argentina's world No. 60 Roman Burruchaga, representing the Kolkata Thunder Blades, will be the highest-ranked singles player in the league

The doubles competitions also got underway, with top seeds Manish Sureshkumar/Nitin Sinha advancing to the quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Raghav Jaisinghani/Lakshit Sood

Sinner’s ⁠absence could open the door for Alexander Zverev to finish ⁠the year at the top of the world rankings

Defending champion Alcaraz will play fellow Spaniard Jaume Munar for a place in the final after the world number 64 ended the impressive run of 86th-ranked Kyrian Jacquet of France

Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ankita Raina were the last singles players to win medals at the Asian Games. Both stood on the podium with bronze in the 2018 Jakarta Games

The Indian pair lost 7-5 3-6 5-10 to the Kazakh duo in a contest that went down to the deciding match tie-break.

Playing in his third Asian Games, the 26-year-old Meena produced a spirited fightback after falling three games behind but could not sustain the momentum, losing 2-4 to Kurosaka in the 45-minute clash

The 42-year-old American, who has family roots in Bengaluru, was felicitated by the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association on Monday

The wins in Davis Cup are always a little bit different because this is a team competition, said Jiri Lehecka

After Dhakshineswar Suresh and N. Sriram Balaji had revived India's hopes with a fighting doubles victory to cut the deficit to 1-2, Sumit Nagal needed to produce his best in the must-win rubber but instead endured a forgettable outing in the difficult heat, losing 1-6 2-6 to Korea number one Soon Woo Kwon

Now India need to win all three matches on the final day to advance to the knockout stage which has happened only twice in India's history: in 2010 against Brazil at home and in 2018 against China in away tie

An Achilles injury, just four days of practice, and a final against the top seed and two-time defending champion... Rybakina’s path to the US Open title was anything but simple. However, her tennis made it look that way. In the process, she ascended to the top of the world rankings.

India and South Korea are separated by just three places in the world rankings as they bid for a spot in the eight-nation Davis Cup Finals

Both men’s and women’s tennis now wear a settled look

An ankle injury had threatened to derail Rybakina's ‌campaign even before the tournament started, but the 27-year-old shrugged ‌off ⁠those concerns to add the U.S. Open title ⁠to her Australian Open triumph this year