Uruguayan will compete in Challenger doubles eventPlayer will team up with Federico Coria of ArgentinaThe former Uruguay footballer Diego Forlán, who played for Manchester United and Atlético Madrid among others, will compete in doubles at the professional Uruguay Open tennis tournament in November, organisers said on Tuesday.The 45-year-old former...

Sport at any age | The north’s broader cultural offering | Changing passwords | British summers | Guinness shandyTom Garry speaks for the many of every age who play tennis for love of the game (Jack Draper, I’m coming for you: how I became British tennis’s No 5,936, 14 October). At 76, I still play league matches, and haven’t given up running. Tennis...

Collins postpones previously announced retirementAmerican is currently at ninth in WTA Tour rankingsDanielle Collins says she’s changed her mind about retiring from the WTA Tour at the end of this year and will be back in 2025.The 30-year-old American said on her Instagram account on Thursday that after dealing with hurricanes in her home state of Florida...

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Former world No 1 says she is recovering well Biopsy on cyst came back negative for cancerSerena Williams says she had a benign branchial cyst “the size of a small grapefruit” removed from her neck and “all is OK”.On Wednesday the retired tennis star, who turned 43 last month, said on social media that she found a lump on her neck in May and had an...

A decision to return to recreational tennis brought me a couple of wins, a couple of losses – and an actual official rankingThe moment when a lad half my age sent his second consecutive ace flying past my racket was probably the moment when I wondered if it had been a mistake to rekindle my tennis career for the first time in a decade.Before anyone...