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Australia's Alex de Minaur has taken down Jaume Munar for the second time in a major this year to reach the third round of Wimbledon, while Daria Saville lost a thrilling and heartbreaking match to 18th seed Marta Kostyuk. Just as he did in the second round at Roland Garros, de Minaur easily handled Munar, who was once a junior …

Top seed Casper Ruud of Norway suffered a shock defeat to Spain’s Jaume Munar in the first round of the ATP Japan Open on Tuesday. In other matches, South Korea’s Kwon Soon Woo produced another upset by eliminating sixth seed Alex de Minaur of Australia 6-3, 6-2. reports Xinhua. Fifth seed Nick Kyrgios of Australia breezed past Chun Hsin Tseng …

Russian third seed Daniil Medvedev faced little resistance from Federico Delbonis of Argentina in a 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 win on Tuesday to ease into the second round of the US Open. - Thiem through as Munar retires - Austrian second seed Dominic Thiem advanced to the second round of the US Open when Spaniard Jaume Munar retired after dropping the …

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alex de Minaur moved into the semi-finals at the Next Gen Finals in Milan after victories on Wednesday. Top seed Tsitsipas was in dominant form against Frances Tiafoe, beating the American, who had also prevailed in his opening contest, 4-3, 4-3, 4-2. "I never dropped my performance, I always stayed at 100 per cent almost, so I …