ATP rankings Two places. That is how far both Valentin Vacherot and Luciano Darderi climbed this week, enough to put each into the ATP top 20, at 19 and 20, while the top 10 above them did not move at all. Vacherot's rise makes him the first man from Monaco ranked in the top 20.
Ranking tale Anti-doping Four. That is how many matches Nick Kyrgios has played in 2026, and the last of them, a first-round loss in Mallorca on a wildcard, is where he gave the sample that has now suspended him. The International Tennis Integrity Agency provisionally suspended the 31-year-old Australian on 4 August, after a WADA-accredited laboratory found benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine, in a sample collected on 22 June. Kyrgios made it public himself on Wednesday: “I made a huge mistake and I take full responsibility for it.”
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