Team Europe reclaimed the Laver Cup while Shang, Cilic, Sramkova and Haddad Maia won titles on the Asia swing. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.
Spain's Carlos Alcaraz sealed a straight-set win against American Taylor Fritz to lead Team Europe to a 13-11 victory over Team World at the Laver Cup in Berlin.
With "The Rocket" himself!
If Shang Juncheng was feeling the weight of home expectation on Tuesday at the Chengdu Open, the 19-year-old certainly did not show it. The #NextGenATP star produced a stunning championship-match performance to overwhelm top seed Lorenzo Musetti and lift his maiden ATP Tour title at the hard-court ATP 250. Shang prevailed 7-6(4), 6-1 after 99 minutes to become the first Chinese player to win an ATP Tour title on home soil.
The top seeds Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia on Tuesday clinched their second consecutive title at the Chinese hard-court ATP 250 with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-4 triumph against Yuki Bhambri and Albano Olivetti. Doumbia and Reboul won the first seven points of the Match Tie-break en route to claiming their third tour-level title of the season.
Marin Cilic is an ATP Tour champion once again. The 35-year-old(!) Croatian overcame Chinese star Zhang Zhizhen 7-6(5), 7-6(5) on Tuesday at the Hangzhou Open to clinch his first tour-level title since 2021.
No.102 Rebecca Sramkova secured her first Hologic WTA Tour title by defeating No.99 Laura Siegemund 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday in the final at the Thailand Open.
No.3 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia battled back from a set and a break down to defeat top seed Daria Kasatkina 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the final of the Hana Bank Korea Open on Sunday. The victory netted the Brazilian her first WTA Tour title of the season and fourth overall.
Elsewhere around the net ...
In the gym with Miles Bugby
Jack Draper: When ugly fashion happens to beautiful people
Fede "legs for days" Gomez
Robert Cardenas in his uniform
Carlos Alcaraz and Flavio Cobolli give some footballers a lesson
Das boot: Sebastian Ofner
Vroom! Vroom! Benjamin Lock
Leg day with Andrea Vavassori
Matteo Arnaldi goes all out
Lorenzo Musetti and a friend
Selfie-assured Pedro Martinez
Juan Betancourt only knows attractive people
Benoit Paire basking in the glory of losing a match in record time
Hugo Gaston for Laroche Posay
Why we keep Borna around
Same
Justin and Tommy
Smokin' in the grass
Liam Broady for Dunlop
Jan-Michael & Co.
Nice to see that someone in the Adam Jones family actually wins matches
Balkan beef
Cooking with Fabien Reboul
Arthur Cazaux gets a hand from Oliver Marach
Just one question about this beautiful wedding Arthur Borges posted about
Is there any chance Garbine Muguruza's husband is straight?
Oktoberfest with Kevin Krawietz
Luke Johnson and Sander Arends win in St. Tropez
... but how about that runner-up?
Hello, Arthur Bouquier!
Argentine Juampi Ficovich wins in Cali, Colombia
I still can't believe the FCC didn't object to Alibek Kachmazov or ...
Yannick Hanfmann's bodies on television
Neal Skupski shows you ...
what you're working with
Enter a Tommy Paul giveaway that sadly isn't a pair of his boxer-briefs
Hubert Hurkacz is big in Japan ... and anywhere else he visits
Still waiting for Cristian Garin to post something naughty
Musetti is now 0-5 and finals this year
Rubin Statham and Gonzalo Oliveira get chummy
Thomas Enqvist instills daddy issues
German Elmar Ejupovic is lucky I didn't ask him what I wanted to ...
6-4, 202 pounds ...
and he's a cat dad!
(With wire services)
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Alacaraz has some hunky male "friends"
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