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Sinner withdraws from US Open mixed doubles draw

World number one Jannik Sinner, who was forced to retire during the final of the Cincinnati Open, and playing partner Katerina Siniakova have withdrawn from the US Open mixed doubles draw, tournament organisers confirmed Tuesday."Jannik Sinner and Katerina Siniakova have withdrawn from the US Open Mixed Doubles Championship," read a statement on the US Open website.

Sara Errani serves up another tennis show at the U.S. Open mixed doubles

Sara Errani stands at the baseline and exhales deeply. She is about to hit a second serve, with Italy up match point against Poland. A place in the Billie Jean King Cup final is at stake. So Errani does what she has done many, many times before: she hits an underarm serve. The ball floats into the service box and onto the racket of Iga Świątek, one of two women’s players who can claim to be the best in the world. Świątek is on to it in a flash and hits her return deep to Errani’s forehand. Erran

Sinner pulls out of US Open mixed doubles. Collins, Harrison replace him and Siniakova

Jannik Sinner pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it began on Tuesday, a day after he quit in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final because he was feeling ill. The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to compete in mixed doubles with Katerina Siniakova. Sinner and Siniakova will be replaced by Americans Danielle Collins and Christian Harrison.

Tennis player from Kazakhstan gets 4-year ban for doping

LONDON (AP) — A 21-year-old tennis player from Kazakhstan was banned for four years for doping, the International Tennis Integrity Agency said Tuesday, including with an anabolic substance that has no legally approved use.

Arslanbek Aitkulov reached his highest men’s singles ranking of 1,250 in November 2023.

Two months later he tested positive for ligandrol and the stimulant methylhexanamine at a lower-tier event in Qatar, the ITIA said.

Ligandrol is a research chemical with muscle-building properties that is not legally approved for use in medications.

Aitkulov was provisionally suspended last year during the investigation and will stay banned until March 2028.

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