In a battle of two prodigies, Italy's 10th seed Jannik Sinner advanced to the quarter-finals in four entertaining sets against Spanish fifth seed Carlos Alcaraz 6-1, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 at Wimbledon in the men's singles.

The past and the present stood together on Centre Court at Wimbledon today to celebrate the centenary of the most famous lawn in tennis prior to the start of this year's fourth round matches.

Third seed Casper Ruud was knocked out of Wimbledon by Ugo Humbert - despite the Frenchman arriving on the grass court without a racquet - while two-time champion Sir Andy Murray is also out.

Reigning US Open champion Emma Raducanu and two-time Wimbledon champion Sir Andy Murray are both through to the second round at the grass-court Grand Slam, which began today without banned Russian players in attendance and lacking its usual ranking points.

So many enduring traditions are being observed as the Wimbledon Championships - or, to give them their traditional and very English title, The Championships, Wimbledon - get underway in south-west London on what promises to be a, traditionally, mixed day of weather.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia has reiterated his opposition to Wimbledon’s blanket ban of players from Russia and Belarus before he attempts to win a seventh men's singles title in London.

This year’s total prize money for Wimbledon will be a record £40.3 million ($50.3 million/ €47.4 million) with the men’s and women’s singles champions set to earn £2 million ($2.49 million/ €2.35 million) each.

The big names in the men’s singles draw at the French Open tennis enjoyed comfortable victories in their third round matches at Roland Garros today.

Rising star Carlos Alcaraz and Olympic champion Alexander Zverev both faced match points in round two of the French Open, but had enough to earn five-set, come-from-behind victories.

Rafael Nadal dismissed injury concerns by cruising to a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 win over Australian Jordan Thompson in the first round of the French Open.

Novak Djokovic and Iga Świątek continue to impress in the build-up to the French Open, with the men’s and women’s world number ones claiming dominant wins in the Italian Open.