Buy the latest gear from the top players from the Pro:Direct Tennis Shop and check out their 80% off sale on selected tennis equipment now on Emily Arbuthnott teamed up with Chelsea Vanhoutte for the ITF event in Belgium and were seeded second Their first round opponents were Laure Line Glaude & Marte Lambrecht The Belgians were no match for the Brit/Belgian as the seeds dominated the match Arbuthnott & Vanhoutte lost only two games to move into the quarter-final 6-2 The quarter-final saw the Brit/Belgian against Anastasia Shaulskaya & Sevil Yuldasheva The Russian/Uzbekistani  stayed with the seeds at the start before Arbuthnott & Vanhoutte broke serve From this point the Brit/Belgian didn’t look back and dominated the rest of the match to move into the semi-final 6-4 In the semi-final the second seeds were against the fourth seeds Amanda Carreras & Linnea Malmqvist The Brit/Swede were unable to do much in the first set as Arbuthnott & Vanhoutte dominated and lost only one game however the second seeds managed a break of serve to move into the final in straight sets 6-1 The final saw the second seeds against third seeds Cemre Anıl & Marina Yudanov The Brit/Belgian were surprised by Turk/Swede pairing and were broken in the first set Arbuthnott & Vanhoutte re-grouped in the second set and forced a break of serve right at the end to level the match In the match tiebreak it was the Brit/Belgian that edged ahead and won the title 3-6 Search Viagogo for tennis tickets for upcoming tournaments Jamie Murray & Neal Skuspki were defeated by Łukasz Kubot & Marcelo Melo in the semi-final in Winston-Salem 6-2 Ken Skupski with Marcus Daniell were defeated by Dan Evans & Jonny O’Mara in the first round in Winston-Salem 6-4 Dom Inglot with Marcelo Demoliner were defeated by Łukasz Kubot & Marcelo Melo in the first round in Winston-Salem 6-4 Dan Evans & Jonny O’Mara were defeated by Łukasz Kubot & Marcelo Melo in the quarter-final in Winston-Salem 6-2 Luke Bambridge with Ben McLachlan were defeated by Sander Gille & Joran Vliegen in the quarter-final in Winston-Salem 2-6 Joe Salisbury with Rajeev Ram were defeated by Nicholas Monroe & Tennys Sandgren in the quarter-final in Winston-Salem 6-3 Ben Jones & James Mackinlay were defeated by Sagadat Ayap & George Tsivadze in the quarter-final in Belarus 7-5 Michael Shaw with Bart Van Den Berg were defeated by Max Houkes & Colin Van Beem in the quarter-final in Belgium 7-5 Jack Findel-Hawkins & Isaac Stoute were defeated by Brandon Perez & Ricardo Rodríguez in the first round in Mexico 7-5 Jack Gibbens with Charles Force were defeated by Jaimee Angele & Ronan Joncour in the first round in Mexico 6-3 Eliz Maloney with Shatoo Mohamad were defeated by Ingrid Gamarra Martins & Melissa Morales in the first round in Mexico 6-2 Emilie Lindh with Madeleine Kobelt were defeated by Anastasia Sysoeva & Melis Yasar in the quarter-final in Mexico 6-4 Aleksandra Pitak & Katarzyna Pitak were defeated by Fernanda Contreras Gómez & Ana Paula De La Peña in the quarter-final in Mexico 6-4 Jonathan Gray with Jumpei Yamasaki were defeated by Hiroyasu Ehara & Sho Shimabukuro in the final in Indonesia 6-1 Alexis Canter with Constantin Bittoun Kouzmine were defeated by Skyler Butts & Markus Schultz in the quarter-final in Israel 6-2 Llewelyn Bevan & Sizya Kivanda were defeated by Manuel Goncalves & Hugo Maia in the first round in Portugal 6-1 Adam Jones & Ewen Lumsden were defeated by Antoine Escoffier & Maxime Tchoutakian in the quarter-final in Portugal 4-1 RET Stuart Parker with Julius Tverijonas were defeated by Bernardo Azevedo Pereira Oliveira & Peter Bothwell in the semi-final in Portugal 6-3 Ryan Peniston with Cameron Green were defeated by Kittirat Kerdlaphee & Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul in the quarter-final in Thailand 5-7 Samantha Murray with Aleksandrina Naydenova were defeated by Xinyu Jiang & Tang Qianhui in the semi-final in China 6-3 Emily Appleton with Carolina Meligeni Alves were defeated by Anna Klasen & Romy Koelzer in the quarter-final in Germany 6-4 Shop at Connected Clubs for a vast range in tennis equipment and training aids to help improve your tennis Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" document.getElementById('newsnowlogo').onclick=function(){ window.open('http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport','newsnow'); 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It was a fourth tour-level quarterfinal appearance of the season for Hijikata, who saved two match points against former world No.12 Borna Coric in the third round Aleksandar Vukic: The 28-year-old scored his sixth top-50 singles win of the season beating world No.42 Adrian Mannarino to reach the third round at the ATP 250 tournament in Winston-Salem Tristan Schoolkate: The 23-year-old continued his breakout season qualifying for a tour-level hard-court tournament for the first time at the ATP 250 event in Winston-Salem Edward Winter: The 19-year-old featured in his first doubles final at ATP Challenger level finishing runners-up at a tournament in Jinan (China) alongside Japan’s Rio Noguchi Jacob Bradshaw: The 21-year-old scored his first main-draw singles win at an ATP Challenger in memorable fashion saving a match point to reach the second round as a qualifier at the tournament in Jinan Tina Nadine Smith: The 22-year-old advanced to her second singles final of the season at an ITF 35 tournament in Verbier (Switzerland) Smith was also a doubles semifinalist alongside Switzerland’s Fiona Ganz Matthew Dellavedova: The 24-year-old was a singles semifinalist at an ITF 25 tournament in Lesa (Italy) This was Dellavedova’s fourth semifinal appearance of the season Jake Delaney: The 27-year-old reached the singles semifinals at an ITF 15 tournament in Nakhon Si Thammarat (Thailand) It was Delaney’s third singles semifinal appearance this year He also progressed to the doubles semifinals alongside his 25-year-old brother Jesse Delaney Ella Simmons: The 20-year-old was a doubles finalist at an ITF 15 tournament in Wanfercee-Baulet (Belgium) with Indonesia’s Janice Tjen This was Simmons’ fourth career appearance in an ITF doubles final and her second this season Hayden Jones: The 17-year-old advanced to the quarterfinals in both the boys’ singles and doubles (partnering American Jagger Leach) events at an ITF J300 tournament in College Park (USA) Emerson Jones: The 16-year-old teamed with Serbian Teodora Kostovic to reach the girls’ doubles semifinals at the ITF J300 tournament in College Park Bryan Dickson: The 16-year-old won his first ITF boys’ doubles title at a J30 tournament in Singapore with Chen Kuan-Ting from Chinese Taipei Dickson was also a singles quarterfinalist Find your way to play: Visit play.tennis.com.au to get out on court and have some fun Ryan Peniston entered the ATP Challenger event in Prague and was unseeded In the first round Peniston drew eighth seed Jiljan Zekic The Serbian was the favourite for the match however the Brit got off to a flying start Peniston broke at will in the first set as Zekic struggled with their game In the second set Peniston continued the form from the first set The Serbian was clearly struggling and retired from the match In the second round the Brit was against the qualifier Uladzimir Ignatik The Brit dominated the first set as the Ignatik struggled with serve the Belarussian fought back in the second set to level up the match The final set saw Peniston re-group and break serve of Ignatik to move into the quarter final 6-2 The quarter-final saw the Brit against Facundo Diaz Acosta The Argentine tried to stay with the Brit in the first set Peniston got the break of serve needed to move ahead This seemed to break the spirit of the Argentine as the Brit dominated the second set and moved into the semi-final in straight sets 6-3 In the semi-final Peniston was against Genaro Alberto Olivieri The Argentine was no match for Pensiton in the first set as the Brit dominated losing only one game Olivieri stayed with the Brit until right at the end of the set where Peniston secured the break and moved into the final 6-1 The final saw the Brit against Italian Franco Agamenone The Italian broke the serve of Peniston in the first set and although the Brit tried The second set was dominated by Agamenone who broke the Brit several times to lift the title 6-3 Jack Draper was defeated by Aziz Dougaz in the first round in Barletta 6-3 Jay Clarke was defeated by Andrea Vavassori in the first round in Barletta 6-3 Harry Wendelken was defeated by Felix Gill in the second round in Poznan 6-1 Felix Gill was defeated by Shintaro Mochizuki in the quarter-final in Poznan 7-6(3) Freya Christie was defeated by Conny Perrin in the first round in Vigo 6-2 Alicia Barnett was defeated by Julita Saner in the first round in Vigo 1-6 Arthur Fery was defeated by Raphael Collignon in the quarter-final in Huy 6-3 Emily Arbuthnott was defeated by Silvia Ambrosio in the quarter-final in Wanfercee-Baulet 6-2 Sarah Beth Grey was defeated by Sara Bejlek in the second round in Prerov 7-6(5) Several tennis fans were left bewildered when Anna Chakvetadze's name appeared in the draw of an event 10 years after her retirement with some even joking that a Martina Navratilova comeback might be on the cards too in the draw of three separate events has sparked speculations about a potential return to the court for the Russian Her name has been mentioned in the brackets of ITF's Flanders Ladies Trophy Koksijde The 36-year-old played in the semifinal of the US Open and quarterfinals of the Australian Open and the French Open back in 2007 Chakvetadze announced her retirement in 2013 Surprised at the news of her possible return tennis fans came up with a variety of strong comments on social media Another fan recalled Navratilova's successful US Open mixed doubles campaign in 2006 and tweeted: One user backed Navratilova to win matches despite her age Another user proposed a team-up between the 18-time Grand Slam winner and any WTA player for guaranteed victories Martina Navratilova finished her competitive career on a high in 2006 winning the mixed-doubles title at the US Open The Czech-American joined forces with Bob Bryan at the tournament and defeated Kveta Peshcke and Martin Damm 6-2 After receiving the trophy in New York's Arthur Ashe Stadium Navratilova retired in 1994 but made a comeback in 2000 the 18-time Grand Slam singles winner enjoyed great success in the mixed-doubles category She secured two titles in 2003 — Australian Open and Wimbledon — with India's Leander Paes by her side the Czech-American finally called it a day Your perspective matters!Start the conversation