​#ThisWeekInTennis recaps the tennis happenings of the last week via news reports, player tweets, featured articles, rankings, and podcasts.

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• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga backed up his win last week in Rotterdam with another in Marseille. Tsonga, who re-enters the top 10 at #7, attended a football match after the final with runner-up Lucas Pouille. 
• Dominic Thiem beat Pablo Carreno Busta in Rio de Janeiro for the eighth ATP title of his young career. Thiem, 23, already owns more than half as many titles as 31-year-old Tsonga (14).
• Elina Svitolina debuts inside the WTA top 10 after winning the sixth and biggest title of her career in Dubai. Svitolina's road to the title: Saisai, McHale, Davis, Kerber, and Wozniacki.
• Jack Sock benefited from a Milos Raonic walkover in the Delray Beach final to score his second title of 2017 and third of his career. The top-ranked American is now 11-1 on the season.
• Timea Babos won the inaugural Hungarian Open for the second title of her career. Babos, on home soil, beat Šafářová in a three-set final. 
• ​Caroline Wozniacki is now #5 in the Road to Singapore after finishing runner-up in Dubai, like she did the previous week in Doha. 
• A return to world #1 was within reach for Angelique Kerber in Dubai; needing to win the title to unseat Serena Williams for the top spot, Kerber lost to eventual champion Svitolina in the semis.
• Juan Martin del Potro made his 2017 debut in Delray Beach, losing to Milos Raonic in the semifinals.
• Lucie Šafářová, beaten finalist in Budapest, rises 7 spots to #40 in new WTA rankings.
• Serena Williams joins two unsuspecting strangers for a late night hit.
• 17-year-old Catherine Bellis had the biggest result of her career, reaching the quarterfinals in Dubai before losing to Caroline Wozniacki. She is now on the cusp of her debut in the top 50, rising 14 spots to #56. 
• Steve Darcis withdrew from his quarterfinal against Donald Young in Delray Beach to deal with a personal matter. 
• Andy Murray says he suffered from a bout of shingles, but has recovered and is ready to play.
• Former world #11, Shahar Pe'er, has announced her retirement from tennis. 
• Check out "My Tennis Life" from The Tennis Channel, which features Nicole Gibbs and Sam Groth giving video diaries of their lives on tour. 

#ThisWeekInTennis recaps the tennis happenings of the last week via news reports, player tweets, featured articles, rankings, and podcasts.

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• Jo-Wilfried Tsonga won his 13th career title last week in Rotterdam. The veteran Frenchman also notched his 400th career singles win in the semifinals before beating David Goffin in the final.
• Karolina Pliskova scored her second title of 2017 when she beat Caroline Wozniacki in the Doha final for the eighth WTA title of her career.
• Alexander Dolgopolov upset Kei Nishikori to win in Buenos Aires. The Ukrainian, winner of just  one of his previous 11 matches entering the tournament, strung together wins over Tipsarevic, Cuevas, Gerald Melzer, Carreno Busta, and Nishikori to claim his third ATP title.
• Ryan Harrison equals his career high ranking of #43 after winning the  first ATP title of his career, beating Nikoloz Basilashvili in Memphis. The title comes two weeks after beating Taylor Fritz to win the Dallas Challenger.
• David Goffin overcame his recent nemesis Grigor Dimitrov on his way to the Rotterdam final. Despite losing to Tsonga in the final, Goffin cracks the ATP top 10 for the first time in his career.
• Kei Nishikori suffered his 6th consecutive loss in ATP finals. The world #5, who elected not to go for a fifth consecutive title in Memphis last week, lost to Alexander Dolgopolov.
• Caroline Wozniacki reached the final in Doha, losing to Karolina Pliskova. The Danish former world number one, now ranked #15, also announced Sascha Bajin as her new hitting partner. 
• Martina Hingis has a new doubles partner: the Swiss star teamed with Yung-Jan Chan, one half of the successful Chan sisters, starting in Doha. 
• Roberto Bautista Agut continued his show of support for LGBT issues when he announced he will wear rainbow laces on his shoes in Rio to aid the International Day Against Homophobia in Sport.
• Toni Nadal announced he will no longer be a part of the week-to-week coaching staff of Rafael Nadal at the end of the 2017 season. 

Grigor Dimitrov and Alexander Zverev built on their strong showings at the Australian Open with a pair of titles over the weekend. Dimitrov won on home soil for his second trophy of the young season, while Zverev's was the second overall of his young career. Elsewhere, Victor Estrella Burgos won the Ecuador Open for a third successive year, catapulting him back inside the ATP top 100 (#93). But, the most sensational headlines came out of Hawaii, where the U.S.T.A. had to issue an apology to their German Fed Cup opponents after playing an outdated Nazi-era version of their anthem. 

​#ThisWeekInTennis recaps the tennis happenings of the last week via news reports, player tweets, featured articles, rankings, and podcasts.

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• Grigor Dimitrov continued his fast start to the 2017 season, winning his second title on the year, this time on home turf at the Sofia Open. Dimitrov added to his Brisbane title when he beat David Goffin in the final, and is now 14-1 in 2017.
• Victor Estrella Burgos completed a three-peat at the Ecuador Open in Quito, beating Paolo Lorenzi in a third set tiebreak.  
• Alex Zverev scored the second ATP Tour title of his career, winning in Montpellier. The young German cracks the ATP top 20 for the first time, landing at #18 in this week's rankings; he also paired with his brother to win the doubles title. 
• Richard Gasquet, aiming for a three-peat in Montpellier, fell one match short losing to Alex Zverev in the final.  
• The ​Fed Cup semifinals are set: Czech Republic d. Spain, U.S.A. d. Germany, Belarus d. Netherlands & Switzerland d. France.

• As with Davis Cup last week, the Fed Cup action produced a shocking moment when the host U.S.A. team played an outdated version of the German National Anthem. Worse yet, the version played was one used during Nazi-era Germany. The U.S.T.A. promptly issued an apology for the debacle, while Andrea Petkovic termed the fiasco "the epitome of ignorance."
• Not long after Denis Shapovalov was fined $7,000 for hitting an umpire in the eye at Davis Cup last week, came the news that Arnaud Gabas underwent surgery as a result of the accident.
• Sloane Stephens announced that she had successful foot surgery, and hopes to be back on the WTA Tour by the summer. 
• Absent in Rotterdam: Top seeds Stan Wawrinka and Rafael Nadal both announced their withdrawals from the event.
• WATCH: A python eats a tennis ball, has to have it removed.

With the 2017 Australian Open completed, WTA players turned to events in St. Petersburg and Taipei, while the men traveled all over to begin their countries' quests for Davis Cup glory. Kristina Mladenovic won the first WTA title of her career in St. Petersburg, while world #13 Elina Svitolina took home the trophy in Taipei City. Elsewhere, defending Davis Cup champions Argentina (without Juan Martin del Potro) lost 3-2 to Italy. But, the biggest news of the week came out of Ottawa where Canadian Denis Shapovalov was defaulted in the deciding rubber versus Great Britan, after a ball he hit in frustration struck the chair umpire in the eye.

​ #ThisWeekInTennis recaps the tennis happenings of the last week via news reports, player tweets, featured articles, rankings, and podcasts.

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• Kristina Mladenovic won the first title of her career, defeating Yulia Putintseva in St. Petersburg. On her way to the title, Mladenovic beat Venus Williams 6-3 6-1, and defending Champion Roberta Vinci in the quarterfinals, before saving four match points in the final against Putintseva. 
• Elina Svitolina won the title in Taipei, the fifth her career. She scored identical 6-3 6-2 wins over Mandy Minella in the semifinals and Peng Shuai in the final. 
• After opening round action of Davis Cup this weekend, the Quarterfinals (April 7-9) are all set and the draw is as follows: Italy vs Belgium, United States vs Australia, France vs Great Britain, and Spain vs Serbia. 

• Denis Shapovalov was defaulted from the deciding match in the Canada vs Britain tie after inadvertently hitting the chair umpire with a ball. The Canadian was fined $7,000 and issued an apology.
• Daniel Nestor competed in his 50th Davis Cup tie, exactly 25 years after his first.
• The defending Davis Cup champions, Argentina, were bounced by Italy in the opening round of the 2017 event. 
• ATP Challenger winners: R. Harrison (Dallas), O. Jasika (Burnie), A. Mannarino (Quimper).
• Not surprisingly after her 23rd Slam title in Australia, Serena Williams was name WTA Player of the Month for January.
• Venus Williams lost her opening match in St. Petersburg, but the Australian Open finalist stuck around to take in some of the sights. 
• Former top 10 player and French Open finalist, Lucie  Šafářová, re-enters the WTA top 50 after making the semifinals in Taipei.
• After Gaël Monfils was left off the French team's roster for Davis Cup, the top ranked Frenchman tried his hand at a new sport.