• Linda Pearce

Novak Djokovic plans to celebrate his son Stefan's second birthday on Friday and focus on his life off the court rather than tweak his late-season schedule to fortify his threatened No.1 ranking against Andy Murray's year-end assault.

• Linda Pearce

Shanghai: A shirt-ripping, racquet-destroying, umpire-damning Novak Djokovic has suffered another setback in his quest to hold off Andy Murray's challenge for the year-end No.1 ranking, beaten 6-4, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the Shanghai Rolex Masters by Spanish 15th seed Roberto Bautista Agut.

Shanghai Novak Djokovic suffered his first loss at the Masters 1000 level since 2014 as the top seed went down to Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4 6-4 on Saturday in Shanghai.

• Linda Pearce

What will the new generation of tennis stars achieve? And how long will it take?

Daria Gavrilova has produced one of the best performances of her career to send world No.1 Angelique Kerber crashing out of the Hong Kong Open.

• Linda Pearce

Novak Djokovic arrived at the Shanghai Masters seeking to rediscover his "inner joy" for the game.

• Linda Pearce

Not enough went wrong for Novak Djokovic against German qualifier Mischa Zverev on Friday night to deny the world No.1 a place in his seventh Shanghai Masters semi-final in as many attempts.

• Linda Pearce

The 21-year-old Australian was still not out of pocket after the tournament, taking home more than half of his second round loser's prizemoney.

• Linda Pearce

While Andy Murray says he and Nick Kyrgios share locker-room chat about various  things - tennis, basketball, sport in general - the world No.2 has offered himself as a willing sounding board for far more substantial issues. "You don't want to see young guys who are in the spotlight struggling and making mistakes," Murray says. "Doing things that ultimately hurt them."

• Phil Lutton

Nick Kyrgios doesn't need to tone it right down. Like McEnroe and Ivanisevic before him, he needs to find a way to turn it up when the moment arrives.

• Chris Dutton

A leading sports psychologist says Nick Kyrgios' China meltdown is just part of being a "rollercoaster athlete".

• COMMENT
• Linda Pearce

Among all the bad decisions Nick Kyrgios made on Wednesday in Shanghai (not trying, or even pretending to, verbally brawling with the crowd, et al), the last was to be unapologetic about the effort he had just not made. It was hard to know what was worse: the on-court non-performance, or what followed in the interview room.

• Linda Pearce

Australian tennis player refuses to acknowledge any responsibility to the paying public after failing to 'show up' for unedifying debacle. 

• Linda Pearce

Another outrageous chapter has been written in the turbulent career of Nick Kyrgios.

• Linda Pearce

Painfully, in several respects, Bernard Tomic has retired mid-match for the fourth time this season. The 40 minutes he played against Spanish 15th seed Roberto Bautista Agut  may also  be the Queenslander's last in what has been a slightly below-expectations year.

• Linda Pearce

The new Nick Kyrgios headed straight from the court to the gym after his 6-4, 6-4 Shanghai Masters defeat of Sam Querrey for some injury-prevention and strengthening work with fitness coach Martin Skinner. The old Nick Kyrgios might have done, well ... not that.

Next year's Brisbane International will boast a star-studded field, with Milos Raonic, Kei Nishikori and Dominic Thiem locked in to contest the January tournament.

• Linda Pearce

Something happened to Nick Kyrgios at the US Open, and not just a tearful third round injury retirement against Illya Marchenko.

• David Polkinghorne

Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt says Nick Kyrgios is in the "next group" of players who can step up to win a grand slam.

• Linda Pearce

For Kyrgios, an impressive, demanding, and sometimes difficult tennis season is almost over.

• ANALYSIS
• Phil Lutton

Nick Kyrgios has shot up the world rankings with his Japan Open triumph. And the Australian summer is closing in.

Third-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska defeats Britain's Johanna Konta in straight sets to win the China Open.

Nick Kyrgios has won the biggest title of his fledgling career.

Tennis fans will pay about the same for 2017 Australian Open tickets as the did in 2016, according to tournament organisers.

Tokyo: Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios is into the final of the Japan Open after beating Frenchman Gael Monfils 6-4 6-4 in their seim-final in Tokyo on Saturday.

Australian sixth seed Nick Kyrgios is on track for his third title of the year, winning through to the semi-finals of the Japan Open with a 6-4 6-2 win over Gilles Muller of Luxembourg.

Nick Kyrgios will face Luxembourg's Gilles Muller in the Japan Open quarter-finals after the Australian was gifted a run into the final eight.

• Simon Briggs

Maria Sharapova can expect a spree of wild cards when she returns to the game at the end of next April, according to Steve Simon, the head of the Women's Tennis Association.

Bernard Tomic has been thrashed in the opening round of the Beijing Open, going down to Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta in straight sets.