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Medvedev clinched his seventh career Nitto ATP Finals berth by beating Adrian Mannarino in the Vienna quarterfinals, booking a return to Turin a year after missing the season finale for the first time since 2018.

Vacherot dropped the opening set before beating eighth seed Jiri Lehecka 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the Basel final, a year after his Shanghai Masters breakthrough, becoming only the third man this century to win titles in both cities.

Tennisnerd looks past this year's launches to what's already shaping up for 2027 — a reworked Dunlop CX, an early hit with the next HEAD Radical, and an update to Tecnifibre's control-leaning T-Fight — and argues the coming season reads as a control-racquet cycle after a run of spin-and-power frames.

Wawrinka's 24-year career closed with a 7-5, 7-6(2) first-round loss to Jiri Lehecka at his hometown Swiss Indoors, a day after Basel marked his tournament-record-tying 19th main-draw appearance there with a farewell ceremony; he has one more sendoff planned, a December exhibition in Geneva alongside Federer and Murray.

Weighs Yonex's two flagship lines against each other — the plush, comfort-first Muse built for recreational players versus the stiffer, harder-hitting EZONE aimed at 4.0-and-up players chasing more pace — with a suggested hybrid string job to round out the EZONE's stiffer feel.

Djokovic dropped the first set before beating Ugo Humbert 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in his first Basel appearance since 2011, a win that returns him to the Top 10 and keeps his bid for a Nitto ATP Finals berth alive.

Returning from a 373-day layoff after Achilles surgery, Rune erased a 5-1 deficit in the deciding-set tiebreak to beat Quentin Halys 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-6(5) in the Basel first round, his first ATP Tour match win since the injury.

Griekspoor rallied from a set down for the third match in a row, beating Jan-Lennard Struff 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the Brussels European Open final for his fourth career ATP title and first of the season, the first indoor tour-level trophy for a Dutch player since Martin Verkerk in 2003.

Marta Kostyuk retired down a set to Ekaterina Alexandrova in the Ningbo second round with an apparent wrist injury, eliminating the last player who could deny Karolina Muchova the final direct berth in the WTA Finals field — Muchova's first career trip to the season-ending event, which runs November 8-15 in Indian Wells.

Medvedev dropped the opening-set tiebreak to qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili before closing out a 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-3 comeback for his 25th career title and fourth of the season, becoming the first man to win the Almaty Open twice and boosting his push for a Nitto ATP Finals berth.

Rybakina beat Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 in just over an hour to defend her Ningbo title, her 15th career trophy and a tour-leading fourth of the season, and her first since clinching the world No. 1 ranking at the US Open.

Tennisnerd spots Corentin Moutet and Hamad Medjedovic both testing blacked-out HEAD Speed frames in practice — a possible switch for Medjedovic away from his longtime Babolat Pure Strike — alongside a wider look at ATP players trending toward lower string tensions heading into the indoor season.