Titles for Sinner, Mboko, Tjen and Blinkova; Martina returned to Czechia to be honored by the president; plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.
Jannik Sinner defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 7-6 to win Paris, his fifth Masters 1000 trophy but the first since October last year. The victory pushes him back into the No. 1 spot, although I'm hoping a decent showing by Carlos Alcaraz in the ATP Finals will help the Spaniard claim the year-end No. 1 spot he so richly deserves.
Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten captured their first ATP Masters 1000 title on Sunday at the Paris Masters, where they defeated second seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool 6-3, 6-4.
Victoria Mboko defeated Spain's Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 6-7 (9), 6-2 to win the Hong Kong Open on Sunday. The 19-year-old from Burlington, Ontario, fired nine aces and earned her second WTA title of the season after lifting the trophy in Montreal in August. With the win Mboko breaks into the Top 20, rising from #21 to #18 -- having started the year ranked #333!
Indonesia's Janice Tjen made recent WTA Tour history on Sunday at the Chennai Open as the first player from her country to win a tour-level singles title in 23 years. In the title match at the WTA 250 stop in India, the 23-year-old former Pepperdine University star added another milestone to a season of firsts this year with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Australia's Kimberly Birrell.
Anna Blinkova captured her second career WTA Tour title (following Cluj-Napoca 2022) with a 6-3, 6-3 defeat of 17-year-old wild card Lillian Tagger in Jiujiang.
Alexander Blockx defeated Frenchman Titouan Droguet 6-4, 6-3 to win the Challenger title in Bratislava
Marcus Willis and Josh Paris lost in the Bratislava doubles final to Sem Verbeek and Sander Gille in an all-hunky matchup
Mariano Navone took home the trophy at the Challenger in Lima, beating Marco Cecchinato in three sets
Elsewhere around the net ...
I think we were all reduced to tears seeing Martina Navratilova return to her birthplace to receive its highest honor
Adam Jones makes a house call at Pam Shriver's
Quentin derriere
Robert Farah
Valentin Vacherot kept up his high level of play by reaching the quarters in Paris
Along the way he again defeated cousin Arthur Rinderknech, who still looks like this
Free foot content from Zizou Bergs
These photos of Tallon Griekspoor celebrating his 2023 win at the Libema Open in the Netherlands caught my eye ...
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I don't read French ...
but Maxence Broville pulled out the sash again over the weekend
Between a Harry Rock and a hard Conor Gannon
Marton Fucsovics shows us what he's got
Holger Rune on the mend
Flacon presents: Valentin Vacherot and Corentin Moutet star in "Serve or Receive?"
Dreamy Alejandro Moro Canas
Fans line up to ask Marcos Giron for an underwear pic
Note: Vuori has a type
Fede Coria makes a splash
Coach Rob Morgan
Mirror man Jürgen Melzer
Although I'm not comfortable with sharing since its origins may be unscrupulous, I can confirm the existence of a video of Flavio Cobolli and Francesco Maestrelli getting dressed in a locker room is making the rounds ...
Jake Fearnley hits with the GOAT
Nice to see Luciano Darderi on his knees
Gee, it must have been really hard to get Fabien Reboul to pose for a camera
Does my favorite tennis hustler have a main squeeze?
Royal pain in the ass Ryan Harrison
Nicolas Mahut called it a career, so everyone pulled out their favorite photos ... like this one with Kristina Mladenovic
The veteran Frenchman played his final match with Grigor Dimitrov in the Paris Masters doubles event, losing to Hugo Nys and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.
This week's helping of Zlatan Dzumhur
These ATP puppets are pretty great ...
especially Taylor Fritz!
28 candles for Taylor Fritz
Patrick Zahraj: Tour on film
Every member of the UT San Antonio tennis team is f**kable. That's the caption.
Dominic Thiem takes a load off
Andrea Picchione makes discount shopping look sexy
Alexandre Muller further blurs the line between tennis and sex work
Happy 89th to Roy Emerson, the only man to complete a career Grand Slam in both singles and doubles!
By the numbers
And last but certainly not least ...
Newly discovered photos like this have be rethinking where I ranked Goran Ivanisevic on my list of hottest tennis players!
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