Pope Leo XIV has made peace with Jannik Sinner. The top-ranked tennis player visited the new pope, gave him a tennis racket and offered to play.

In the women's draw, Coco Gauff will be hoping to follow up her thumping win over Raducanu by beating Mirra Andreeva, while Aryna Sabalenka faces a similarly tricky test against Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen.

This was Jannik Sinner's 50th victory as the ATP's top-ranked player, in just his 53rd outing as the world number one. Since the ATP rankings were first published in 1973, that is the joint-fewest matches required to reach 50 wins as the world number one,

ROME (AP) — Coco Gauff extended her unbeaten streak against Mirra Andreeva to reach the Italian Open semifinals on Wednesday. Gauff played aggressively throughout to advance to the last four at the clay-court tournament for the third time with a 6-4, 7-6 (5) win.

Janik Sinner continued his bid to win his first Italian Open in front of his home crowd by qualifying for the quarterfinals.It was a third consecutive straight-set victory for the Sinner who defeated Francisco Cerundolo 7-6,

A spate of matches have been disrupted by gamblers hoping to put players off. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Plastic sheets cover the field during a thunderstorm prior to the start round of sixteen match between Jannik Sinner and Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome,

Jack Draper admitted that he was left "dizzy" and "bamboozled" by Corentin Moutet as he addressed their incident-filled last-16 clash at the Italian Open. The Brit won 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 after his opponent called for a VAR review to overturn a point awarded to Draper in the second set.