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Watch as Zhizhen Zhang, a 20-year-old Shanghai native, fires the Hot Shot of the week at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Chengdu.

There were plenty of keenly contested first-round encounters on Tuesday at the Generali Open, in the medieval ski resort town of Kitzbühel. Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo extended his perfect record to 4-0 against 2011 and 2012 titlist Robin Haase mid-afternoon in a 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-4 win over two hours and 13 minutes. Fifth seed Haase hit 19 aces, but, having managed to save two set points at 5-6 in the first set, could not convert his lone opportunity at 6/5 in the tie-break. Giraldo now challenges Austrian wild card and last year’s semi-finalist Gerald Melzer, who advanced with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win over Carlos Berlocq of Argentina. German and Kitzbühel resident Philipp Kohlschreiber, who captured the 2015 title (d....

Frenchman Jerome Golmard, a winner of two ATP World Tour titles, passed away on Monday aged 43 following a battle with Motor Neurone Disease (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was first diagnosed with the disease in January 2014 and soon established Association Jerome Golmard, Combattre la maladie de Charcot. Golmard, who, for much of his career had a residence in Boca Raton, Florida, where a number of French players made their home, first began playing tennis aged six with his parents by hitting against the wall of his local club. In a 14-season injury-plagued professional career, Golmard reached a career-high No. 22 on 22 April 1999, shortly after capturing his first ATP World Tour title at...

See the latest Emirates ATP Rankings as of 31 July 2017, after the German Tennis Championships 2017 in Hamburg, BB&T Atlanta Open and the J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad.

ATP World Tour Uncovered presented by Peugeot goes behind the scenes at the German Tennis Championships 2017, including interviews with Gilles Simon, #NextGenATP Karen Khachanov, Albert Ramos-Vinolas and Pablo Cuevas.