Tennis Tracker: Davis Cup returns, San Diego Open heats up

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Tennis Tracker: Davis Cup returns, San Diego Open heats up

Czech Republic's Jiri Lehecka practicing ahead of the first Davis Cup clashes
Czech Republic's Jiri Lehecka practicing ahead of the first Davis Cup clashesProfimedia
The US Open may have only just finished but there's no rest on the tennis tour, with the action already heating up again as the Davis Cup Finals begin and top WTA players take to court in San Diego.

00:00 CET - Sofia Kenin (24) has defeated Veronika Kudermetova (26) 6-4, 6-4 to also make it through to the second round in San Diego.

23:05 CET - Over in San Diego, Marta Kostyuk (21) has beaten Magda Linette (31) 6-2, 7-6(5) to march into the second round.

In the day’s first match, Danielle Collins (29) beat Louisa Chirico (27) 7-5, 6-0.

Linette - Kostyuk highlights
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22:15 CET - In the remaining doubles rubbers in the Davis Cup Finals group stage, the Netherlands beat Finland to win the tie 2-1 while Chile beat Sweden to win 3-0.

Lastly, Serbia and South Korea played out a close match but the Serbs clinched it in the third-set tiebreaker to make it a 3-0 win in the tie.

See all the day's results here.

20:17 CET - Plenty of action still to come today with the day’s play about to start at the San Diego Open.

Check out the full draw here.

19:51 CET - France scored two singles wins in their Davis Cup Finals tie with Switzerland with both Adrian Mannarino (35) and Ugo Humbert (25) winning their respective rubbers and then they made it a sweep with a doubles win as well.

Laslo Djere (28) made it two from two for Serbia against South Korea as well while Nicolas Jarry (27) did the same for Chile against Sweden.

See all the singles results here.

18:00 CET - The first group of Davis Cup ties have come to a conclusion with Finland's Otto Virtanen (22), Serbia's Dusan Lajovic (33) and Chile's Cristian Garin (27) all winning for their respective nations. 

17:53 CET - After a lengthy wait for a verdict, Simona Halep (31) has been banned from playing tennis for four years after two separate anti-doping rule violations.

12:45 CET - The first round of matches at the Japan Open in Osaka continued today with wins for Harriet Dart (27), Panna Udvardy (24) and Elizabeth Mandlik (22) amongst others.

You can check out all the results here.

10:42 CET - Novak Djokovic may be 36, but Andy Murray (36) expects the US Open champion to continue to dominate tennis for years.

"It's up to the young guys to be pushing Novak and looking to overtake him. It doesn't look like that's close to happening," Murray told the BBC on Monday.

Read the Scot's full thoughts here

10:14 CET - The tennis in San Diego started off with some big upsets.

Overnight, fifth seed Belinda Bencic (26) lost 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 to qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich (29), and former world number one Karolina Pliskova (31) has just been beaten 6-7, 6-0, 6-3 by Anhelina Kalinina (26).

In other results in California, Anastasia Potapova (22) defeated Alycia Parks (22) 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 to advance to the second round.

Parks - Potapova highlights
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Also, Emma Navarro (22) breezed past Jasmine Paolini (27) 7-5, 6-0.

Navarro - Paolini highlights
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And Camila Osorio (21) battled past Magdalena Frech (25) 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.

Osorio - Frech highlights
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07:35 CET - Hello and welcome to our coverage of today's tennis, which will include big-name clashes on both the men's and women's tours as action in the Davis Cup and San Diego Open gets underway.