Adelaide

ADELAIDE - Serbia's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic is through to the semi-finals of the Adelaide ATP tournament after defeating Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 on Friday.

Djokovic now has an 8-0 head-to-head record against Shapovalov.

AP/Kelly Barnes

AP/Kelly Barnes

AP/Kelly Barnes

AP/Kelly Barnes

AP/Kelly Barnes

AP/Kelly Barnes

Kyrgios was due to take part in the Adelaide tournament, which serves as a "warm-up" for the AO, but the 27-year-old pulled out with an ankle injury.

ADELAIDE - Serbia's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated Frenchman Quentin Halys 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-5) at the Adelaide ATP tournament on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals.

The Serbian will play Canadian Denis Shapovalov in a bid to reach the semi-finals.

Portorož – Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk and Czech Tereza Martincova won the WTA doubles tournament at the Slovenian seaside of Portorož on Sunday after defeating the Spanish-Slovak pair of Cristina Bucsa and Tereza Mihalikova 6:4 and 6:0 in the finals.

Lleyton Hewitt, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one, was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on July 16, a ceremony delayed from 2021 by COVID-19.

Hewitt won the 2001 U.S. Open and 2002 Wimbledon titles among 30 career ATP triumphs and helped Australia capture the Davis Cup in 1999 and 2003.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep will be in quarantine for 14 days in Adelaide, along with the other three players in the top three spots of the professional tennis world rankings, including Serbian Novak Djokovic and Spanish Rafael Nadal, before travelling to Melbourne to take part in the Australian Open, the organizers were quoted as saying by Reuters.

Voting in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies elections of December 5 and 6, 2020, began on Friday at 8 pm, Romania's time, once with the opening of the polling station in Auckland, New Zealand, informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), in a press release.

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep and German tennis player Angelique Kerber will participate in an exhibition double match, alongside special guests, in Adelaide on Sunday, informed the organisers of the WTA tournament - 2020 Adelaide International, which kicks off Monday.

Two British doctors have set a new Guinness record, cycling over 28,000 km in 218 days and 22 hours, according to UPI.

The Guinness Book of Records notes that Lloyd Collier and Louis Paul Snellgrove have improved the previous achievement for the fastest round-the-world tandem bike tour for men by 9 days.

A polling station in Germany could not open on Friday, on the first day of the presidential election for Romanians abroad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) reported on Friday.