Stan Wawrinka won again at 41, Cl\u00e9ment Chidekh moved up a level: Wednesday had the feel of a baton change, from Lyon to Brussels, and the women’s Masters field was settled along the way. The tennis day in brief.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old Swiss beat the young Spaniard Martin Landaluce to reach the last sixteen of the ATP 250 in Lyon, the penultimate tournament of a career that ends in Basel next week. \u201cWhat a thrill to play in France,\u201d said a man who remains one of the oldest players to win a match on the professional tour.<\/p>\n
In front of his home crowd, Kyrian Jacquet took out Matteo Berrettini (7-6 [4], 7-5) on Tuesday to reach the last sixteen. Born in Lyon and through qualifying, he has changed nothing about his routine: \u201cI sleep at home and I come on my scooter,\u201d said the local boy, now 79th in the live rankings.<\/p>\n
In Brussels, Cl\u00e9ment Chidekh took another step. Out of qualifying, the 25-year-old from Arles, ranked 152, beat Botic Van De Zandschulp (6-1, 6-4) on Tuesday for a first tour-level win, and a first top-50 scalp: the Dutchman is 38th and a recent US Open quarter-finalist. Jacob Fearnley (87th) followed on Wednesday, 7-6 [4], 6-2, and Francisco Cerundolo (21st) waits in Friday’s quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The same week, Brussels says goodbye to David Goffin, playing out the final tournament of his career. The 35-year-old from Li\u00e8ge, once No 7 in the world, the first Belgian to reach the top 10 and twice a Davis Cup finalist with his country, opens against the Swiss Remy Bertola, ranked 219. Belgium’s new generation has queued up to pay tribute: \u201cHe let us believe in our dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian Mannarino, 38 and ranked 79, keeps collecting big-name scalps: after Flavio Cobolli (No 6) in Shanghai on 9 October, he saw off Andrey Rublev (22nd) in the Almaty last sixteen, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, only his second win over the Russian in six meetings. \u201cHe is a better player than me, so to win I had to play a bit better than usual,\u201d the Frenchman summed up. Nikoloz Basilashvili is next in the quarters.<\/p>\n
The eight women qualified for the WTA Finals are known, after Marta Kostyuk pulled out of her last-sixteen match at the WTA 500 in Ningbo: Elena Rybakina, Aryna Sabalenka, Mirra Andreeva, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff are in the field. Among the men the race is still open, with Rafael Jodar and Novak Djokovic fighting it out.<\/p>\n
Jannik Sinner, out since his Wimbledon title on 12 July with a knee injury, will not play again before 2027. Darren Cahill, his co-coach alongside Simone Vagnozzi, is expected to retire at the end of the season, and Adriano Panatta sees what comes next: \u201cI have the feeling he could change coaches.\u201d Juan Carlos Ferrero and Magnus Norman are the early favourites to succeed him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Lyon, Stan Wawrinka and Kyrian Jacquet won their openers; in Brussels, Cl\u00e9ment Chidekh claimed a first tour win and broke into the top 50. The eight WTA Finals qualifiers are known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image-id":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image-id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ba_sport":[],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n