The doubles experts survived Djokovic’s powerful serves with crisp volleying as their quick court coverage overwhelmed the Serbian pair’s bold shots. read more

The young Australian defeated the former world number one 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 and will play fourth seed Borna Coric from Croatia on Friday in the last eight. read more

The world number one impressed in a highly-entertaining quarter-final that saw her fire 39 winners en route to a 7-6 (8\/6), 3-6, 6-3 win against Martic. read more

Karolina Pliskova won 74% of her first service points, fired seven aces and broke the Croatian four times in a rain-interrupted match that was initially delayed by more than five hours due to heavy rain. read more

Modric’s injury takes Madrid’s list of injured players up to eight ahead of Saturday’s game at home to Levante, while Gareth Bale is also suspended after getting sent off in last week’s 2-2 draw at Villarreal. read more

Joachim Loew’s side lost in Hamburg after debutant Donyell Malen’s late effort for the visitors as the home side failed to pick up a point for the first time in the campaign read more

Current India head coach Igor Stimac and NorthEast Untied FC coach Robert Jarni go back a long way. They were Croatia teammates during 1998 World Cup. read more

Bencic will play Thursday against the winner of a later quarter-final between Canadian 15th seed Bianca Andreescu and Belgian 25th seed Elise Mertens. read more

Serena Williams, a six-time US Open champion, will play for a semi-final berth on Tuesday against China’s 18th-seeded Wang Qiang, who upset French Open champion Ashleigh Barty, the second seed from Australia. read more

Needing to finish above any one of two competitors to secure India’s ninth Tokyo Olympic quota place, Deepak could not make the cut after making the finals. read more

The 38-year-old shot 462.0 in the eight-man finals to finish second on the podium behind Petar Gorsa of Croatia (462.2). read more

Philippe Coutinho, 27, has been the talk of Germany since joining Bayern on a one-year loan deal from Barcelona earlier this week. read more

A 2018 World Cup finalist, Perisic, who also played for Borussia Dortmund and VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga between 2011 and 2015, will play for Bayern starting on Friday. read more

Atletico said on their website they had signed a “fantastic and experienced player from the Champions League runner up” and added Trippier had agreed a three-year deal. read more

In her first match since winning her maiden Grand Slam title by beating Marketa Vondrousova at Roland Garros little more than a week ago, the 23-year-old began sluggishly but quickly found her rhythm to move through to the second round. read more