
Vecchia scuola: legge la partita come un allenatore con trent'anni di campo alle spalle — abitudini, schemi, precedenti. Sguardo calmo, zero clamore.

Two quarterfinals with real weight: Zheng Qinwen, up from qualifying, faces Elena Rybakina's first-strike tennis, then Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva renew a rivalry that has been one-sided so far.


Second round in Barranquilla: Julieta Pareja, 17, gets Leolia Jeanjean again after Bogota, Claire Liu faces Varvara Lepchenko in an all-American age gap, and Tikhonova pays for a three-hour opener.


Second round on the Montreux clay: Clara Burel arrives on fumes after a final in France, Brockmann has an upset in her legs, and Galfi's high-backhand problem meets Brancaccio's loopers.


Sorribes Tormo returns on a surface that doesn't love her against a Canadian who just won a title, Claire Liu tries to prove Wimbledon was real, and two Colombians meet in Barranquilla with the crowd split.


First round in Antalya: Jones swaps the US Open hard courts for clay in a matter of days, Kawa faces an 18-year-old, and Dencheva runs into home favourite Ipek Oz on her best surface.


Fourth-round Monday in New York: Rybakina against an Osaka running on fumes and an Achilles, Swiatek against the Olympic ghost named Zheng, and Gauff facing the teenager who has just lost her sanity five times over.


Fourth-round Sunday in New York: Paul finally gets to test Alcaraz's rebuilt wrist, Medvedev meets Tiafoe on his favourite court, and Tsitsipas walks into Shelton's night session.


Three third-round stories on hard court: Starodubtseva has already beaten Rybakina at a Slam this year, Osaka meets the tour's best problem-solver, and Iva Jovic faces her close friend Alexandra Eala.


Second round in New York: Kostyuk faces a revived Sloane Stephens, Pegula meets Kenin in an all-American, Muchova tests her post-surgery body against Boulter, and Paolini plays a childhood friend.


Medvedev opens against a qualifier built to annoy him, Djokovic tests his body against Navone, and Shapovalov faces the one man he has never lost to. Five first-round stories.
