| Davis Cup: Serbia v Great Britain |
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| Venue: Tasmajdan Stadium, Belgrade Dates: 15-17 July |
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Kyle Edmund and James Ward are expected to play singles for Great Britain in this week’s Davis Cup quarter-final against Serbia.
Andy Murray said it is “unlikely” he will play after winning Wimbledon for the second time on Sunday. But the world number two will travel to Belgrade as a spectator.
Britain’s world number 73 Dan Evans will miss out with a shoulder problem.
Edmund is 67 in the world rankings, but Ward has fallen to number 240.
Murray won all eight of his singles rubbers during Great Britain’s Davis Cup victory last year and contributed to 11 of their 12 points.
Edmund made his debut in last year’s final against Belgium, while Ward earned a crucial win against American John Isner in the first round last year.
World number one Novak Djokovic, beaten in the third round at Wimbledon, has already withdrawn from the Serbia team.
Americans Kozlov, Baker also advance on Tuesday
Sixth seed Adrian Mannarino won 122 points in his first-round match at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport on Tuesday. His opponent, Aussie wild card James Duckworth, won 124.
But in tennis, not all points are created equal, and it was the 28-year-old Frenchman who won the biggest points to move into the second round 6-7(3), 7-6(5), 7-6(4).
The two-hour and 35-minute match was about as close as they come. Both players lost their serve exactly four times. But in the two set tie-breaks that Mannarino won, he suffered exactly one less mini-break than Duckworth. The left-handed Mannarino also took full advantage of the two opportunities he had to serve out the tie-breaks.
He next will face Aussie Sam Groth, who hit 23 aces to beat Polish qualifier Michal Przysiezny 7-6(2), 6-4.
American wild card Stefan Kozlov earned his third ATP World Tour match win with a 6-1, 6-2 triumph over German veteran Benjamin Becker. The 17 year old next will face countryman Donald Young.
Canadian qualifier Frank Dancevic swept American Ryan Harrison 6-4, 6-4. Dancevic’s reward for winning three consecutive matches, including qualifying? A second-round match-up with big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic, a two-time Newport finalist.
In a battle of Aussies, John-Patrick Smith got the better of Jordan Thompson 6-4, 6-4. In the second round, Smith will face 34-year-old Swiss Marco Chiudinelli, who prevailed against American qualifier Alex Kuznetsov 6-4, 7-6(6).
Brian Baker won the all-American battle against Austin Krajicek 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. “It’s just one of those matches where you just have to compete pretty hard and take advantage of some break points when you get them,” said Baker, who saved five of six break points and converted three.
The 31-year-old qualifier, who’s had 11 surgeries since 1999, will face fourth seed Marcos Baghdatis in the second round for the first time. Baghdatis, who made the quarter-finals on the grass in Halle and Nottingham, is making his Newport debut.
In doubles, Baker teamed up with Wimbledon doubles semi-finalist Rajeev Ram to sweep Young and South African Dean O’Brien 6-3, 7-5 in 62 minutes. Fourth seeds Purav Raja and Divij Sharan, both of India, advanced with a 2-6, 6-3 10-6 win against Victor Estrella Burgos of the Dominican Republic and American John Paul Fruttero.
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The richest purse in the history of tennis will be on offer at this year’s US Open.
Prize money for the event will be $46.3m (£35m) – an increase of $4m (£3m) on the 2015 event.
Both the men’s and women’s singles champions will earn $3.5m (£2.6m) – a record payout for the tournament, which runs from 29 August to 11 September.
The average increase per round for the singles competition is 10% above the 2015 US Open.
World No. 156 Daniel Gimeno Traver caused an upset on Tuesday in Hamburg in the first round of the German Tennis Championships 2016 as he defeated second seed Benoit Paire 7-5, 3-6, 6-4.
The Spaniard recorded his first tour-level win since April and sixth of the season as he saved 14 of the 21 break points he faced to topple Paire in two hours and nine minutes on centre court.
Seventh seed Martin Klizan avoided an upset as he rallied from the loss of the second set to beat Igor Sijsling 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 in one hour and 44 minutes. After struggling with injuries to his right foot and neck, the No. 47-ranked Klizan claimed his first tour-level win since capturing the biggest title of his career at the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in Rotterdam (d. Monfils).
Stephane Robert ousted 2014 Hamburg champion Leonardo Mayer 7-6(3), 6-4 in one hour and 38 minutes. But there was success for Argentine Mayer’s countryman, Renzo Olivo, who defeated Mikhail Youzhny 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-1 in two hours and 14 minutes.
Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Heather Watson says she is keen to team up with partner Henri Kontinen again after the Olympic Games in Rio.
The 24-year-old won the title with Finn Kontinen, 26, on Sunday having not played together before the event.
“I loved every second of playing with him and we just gel and get along so well,” Watson told BBC Radio Guernsey.
“The only thing that would really stop us is the rankings, in being able to get into the draw.”
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Watson went out in the first round of the singles to Annika Beck after failing to convert three match points in a dramatic final set.
In the mixed doubles the pair received two walkovers before beating defending champions Martina Hingis and Leander Paes in round three.
“I had great partners in both doubles and mixed doubles to lift me up and I ended up playing really well in both, so I’m glad I stuck with it,” she added.
“Henri said as soon as we won our first match he thought we’d win it and I thought, ‘you know what, me too.”
Next up for the Guernsey player is the Olympics in August with Watson one of four players confirmed to represent Great Britain in Brazil.
“It’s been a big goal of mine and I’ve been talking about it a lot,” she said.
“It was big for me to make the cut to get in and be able to play in Rio, so now that I’m going I can’t wait.”
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