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Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime is through to the final of the Cologne Open after posting a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 win over Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut in a semifinal match Saturday in Germany.

Former champion Jelena Ostapenko ousted second seed Karolina Pliskova from the French Open with a 6-4 6-2 win in the second round of the French Open on Thursday after an error-ridden performance from the Czech player.

Serena Williams withdrew from the French Open with an Achilles tendon injury on Wednesday shortly before she was supposed to face Tsvetana Pironkova in the second round on Wednesday.

Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil is out of the French Open after a first-round loss on Tuesday. The 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 defeat to No. 7 seed Matteo Berrettini of Italy dropped Pospisil's career record to 0-7 in singles play at the clay-court Grand Slam.

Andrey Rublev charged back from 5-3 down in the deciding set of the Hamburg Open final to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas on Sunday and head to the French Open with his third title of 2020.

Stefanos Tsitsipas continued his impressive tune-up for the French Open by beating clay-court specialist Christian Garin in the Hamburg Open semifinals on Saturday to set up a final against Andrey Rublev.

Top seed Novak Djokovic beat Diego Schwartzman 7-5, 6-3 Monday to win his fifth Italian Open title. As a result, Canada's Denis Shapovalov climbed to 10th in the ATP rankings after dropping a three-set match to Schwartzman in Sunday's semifinals.

Two weeks after he was defaulted from the U.S. Open and a day after he was warned by the chair umpire for breaking his racket, Novak Djokovic received an obscenity warning midway through a 7-5, 6-3 win over Casper Ruud in the Italian Open semifinals Sunday.

Less than two weeks after getting defaulted from the U.S. Open, Novak Djokovic lost his cool again midway through a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over German qualifier Dominik Koepfer in the Italian Open quarter-finals Saturday.

No. 12 seed Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., rallied to beat world No. 47 Ugo Humbert of France 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4 in the third round of the Italian Open in Rome on Friday.