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Carlos Alcaraz believes tennis’ relentless schedule is “going in the wrong direction” and feels players are being “pushed” to feature in too many tournaments.The world No 3, who will play his Shanghai Masters opener on Saturday, was speaking two days after successfully defending the Japan Open for his third title of an injury-hit year which saw him miss four and a half months between April and August with a wrist issue. World No 1 Jannik Sinner announced this week that he has ended his season early due to a knee problem. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video…

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Coco Gauff said she had been left drained by the racist abuse she experienced during the China Open after suffering a shock defeat by Elise Mertens as Iga Swiatek reached the quarter-finals.Mertens snapped her losing streak against Gauff to record her first win in six matches 6-3 6-3 to reach the quarter-finals in Beijing on Wednesday. Gauff’s defeat came after she received what she described as an “insane” amount of racist comments on social media following a controversial point in the preceding round. When trailing 6-3 4-1 to Mertens, Gauff told her box: “I have no energy. I’m trying, I…

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Daniil Medvedev was defaulted for hitting a spectator with the ball during his semi-final with Novak Djokovic at the China Open, but was it the correct decision or should he have been able to continue playing?Medvedev was trailing Djokovic 7-5 5-3 and had lost a point when he hit the ball coming off the wall. The spectator, who was ​sitting in the first row behind Medvedev, clutched his left eye and appeared to ‌be in pain as he walked out of the gallery, assisted by stadium staff. Medvedev did not protest the umpire’s decision to disqualify him. Monterosa This content…

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