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Former top-10 player Fabio Fognini has announced his retirement from professional tennis. He held a news conference Wednesday at Wimbledon, where he lost to Carlos Alcaraz in a five-setter on Day 1 of the tournament last week.

The action at Wimbledon didn’t seem to entertain Hugh Grant. The 64-year-old actor will likely receive the meme treatment after ESPN cameras caught him dozing off in the Royal Box, where he watched the quarterfinal clash between Serbia’s Novak Djokovic and Italian Flavio Cobolli on Wednesday.

Strawberries and cream has a long association with Wimbledon. Even before lawn tennis was added to its activities, the All England Croquet Club (now the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club) was serving strawberries and cream to visitors. They would have expected no less.

Taylor Fritz has recovered from a mid-match lull during which he was treated by a trainer for a foot problem and reached the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time with a 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4) victory over Karen Khachanov.

The world No. 1 made it clear that she didn’t call Laura Siegemund’s game “annoying” after defeating the 104th-ranked German to reach the Wimbledon semifinals on Tuesday.

Wimbledon's plans to expand the grounds for the world's oldest and most prestigious Grand Slam in tennis came under scrutiny on Tuesday as campaigners' challenge to the expansion began at the High Court in London.