In the women's draw, Coco Gauff will be hoping to follow up her thumping win over Raducanu by beating Mirra Andreeva, while Aryna Sabalenka faces a similarly tricky test against Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen.

Zheng, meanwhile, remained unfazed by the drama and maintained her focus, edging closer to a potential breakthrough title

Carlos Alcaraz is feeling good about his tennis after striding into the semifinals of the Italian Open on Wednesday with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Jack Draper, which he called one of his best displays of the season so far.

The world No. 1 was rusty on his first match back after three months away. His Italian Open draw means he cannot afford to be so for long.

Plastic sheets cover the field during a thunderstorm prior to the start round of sixteen match between Jannik Sinner and Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome,

Emma Raducanu was dumped out of the Italian Open on Monday after a two-set hammering at the hands of Coco Gauff. But British hopes for a title in Rome do not end there, as Jack Draper is still fighting on in the men's draw ahead of his round-of-16 meeting with Corentin Moutet.