Last year’s runners-up Croatia were defeated in their opening match of the Davis Cup Finals group stage against Italy.

doubles rubber, with the US pair of Rajeev Ram and Jack Sock coming from a set down to beat Britain's Sir Andy

Murray and Joe Salisbury, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in another lengthy contest, that took two hours and 50 minutes

Fitness platform Zwift has become an official partner for the 2023 International Cycling Union (UCI) Cycling World Championships in Scotland, as organisers of the event have rallied for volunteers through a campaign with famous faces.

pic.twitter.com/qwHKI9REkw— judy murray (@JudyMurray) August 26, 2022Mother and former coach of British

tennis great Andy Murray, Judy Murray has been playing her part in the recruitment drive for the Cycling

sport - tennis throughout Scotland is underpinned by a dedicated network of coaching volunteers," said Murray

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reaching round four of the US Open by beating compatriot Madison Keys ©Getty Images2012 champion Sir Andy

Murray bowed out in the third-round at the hands of Matteo Berrettini ©Getty Images2017 runner-up Keys

beating Dalma Galfi ©Getty ImagesMatteo Berrettini lets out a roar on his way to a four-set win over Sir Andy

Murray ©Getty ImagesCrowds clamour to take photos of Serena Williams as she walks on to court for her

Serena Williams may have played her last professional tennis match, bowing out of the US Open in the third round of the women's singles following a three-set defeat to Ajla Tomljanović.

to make it into the fourth round too.In the men's singles draw, three-time Grand Slam champion Sir Andy

Murray, champion in New York City in 2012, was beaten in four sets by Italy’s Matteo Berrettini.Last

year's Wimbledon runner-up Berrettini battled his way to a 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 win, making Murray pay

Third seed Maria Sakkari of Greece was on the end of the biggest upset during the third day at the US Open while Serena Williams continued her journey into the third round  in New York.

American number 144 Elizabeth Mandlik, winning 7-5, 6-2.In the men’s draw, 2012 US Open champion Sir Andy

Murray of Britain recovered from a set down to overcome American Emilio Nava, world number 203, in four

sets.Sir Andy Murray recovered from a set down to beat American Emilio Nava in four sets at the US Open

©Getty Images Nava claimed an 84-minute opening set 7-5, before Sir Andy showed all his experience

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third seed Maria Sakkari got the better of Germany’s Tatjana Maria in three sets ©Getty ImagesBritain’s Andy

Murray started with a win on the 10th anniversary of his US Open victory ©Getty ImagesMatteo Berretini

Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep of Romania suffered a shock first round exit as Britain's Sir Andy

Murray started with a win on the 10th anniversary of his US Open victory and Serena Williams also tasted

is playing as a neutral, having been prevented from competing at Wimbledon.Former world number one Murray

English gold medallists at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games are being invited to become part of a "Golden Gateway" to celebrate their successes on home soil at the multi-sport event.

to choose a location.After the London 2012 Olympics, the achievements of gold medallists such as Sir Andy

Murray were recognised with a gold postbox ©Getty ImagesAlice Kinsella, who won gold in the floor exercises

Australia's Nick Kyrgios and Spaniard Rafael Nadal have decided not to play in the Davis Cup while Sir Andy

Murray has been selected for the British team for the first time since 2019.

Sir Andy, who was part of the 2015 Davis Cup-winning side, joins Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans and world

It's always special playing in a Davis Cup tie in front of a home crowd," Sir Andy said, as reported

Anyone for tennis? Just about everyone it seems - certainly in Britain and much of the world one suspects - with Wimbledon well underway in that rather precious corner of London SW19 that is quintessentially English.

round KO of our two home-grown heavyweights, teen queen Emma Raducanu and two-times Wimbledon winner Andy

Murray.

Poland’s Iga Świątek, compatriot Agnieszka Radwańska and Ukrainian Elina Svitolina have come together for an exhibition match set be played in Kraków on July 23 to support humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine.

war...MORE ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/3MeOI3d1W1— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) June 29, 2022Earlier, Britain’s Andy

Murray had vowed to donate his earnings from Wimbledon to those affected by the war in Ukraine.The United

There are families and children trying to leave the country," Murray had said."

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time out ©Getty ImagesBig-serving American John Isner, left, beat Britain's two-time Wimbledon winner Andy

Murray ©Getty ImagesFrenchman Ugo Humbert claimed the biggest scalp in the men's singles so far, eliminating

- despite the Frenchman arriving on the grass court without a racquet - while two-time champion Sir Andy

Murray is also out.

before this week, however, so a second-round exit still represents a modicum of progress.Home favourite Murray

@JohnIsner secures a superb Centre Court victory, defeating Andy Murray 6-4, 7-6(4), 6-7(3), 6-4#Wimbledon

Reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu and two-time Wimbledon champion Sir Andy Murray are both through

Murray, Wimbledon champion in 2013 and 2016 as well as winning an Olympic gold medal at the same venue

set to miss next year's Australian Open as well as the 2022 US Open.Ninth seed Cameron Norrie joins Murray

So many enduring traditions are being observed as the Wimbledon Championships - or, to give them their traditional and very English title, The Championships, Wimbledon - get underway in south-west London on what promises to be a, traditionally, mixed day of weather.

And what about Andy Murray, whose wins at SW19 in 2013 and 2016 are legend?

Her view was rebutted strongly by Murray, who tweeted: "I'd hazard a guess that most people watching