Italian star Sinner won the US Open by beating Taylor Fritz in September and shared a kiss in front of the New York crowd with Kalinskaya, the women's world No 14.
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: The 22-time Grand Slam champion is playing his final event before retirement here in Malaga but there was uncertainty over his role for Spain.
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: The irrepressible Emma Raducanu beat Slovakia's Viktoria Hruncakova to put Great Britain one win away from their first Billie Jean King Cup final since 1981.
The Spaniard is set to take to the court for the final time this week as Spain take on the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, with his fitness still a doubt.
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: GB have now reached two semi-finals in three years. With Slovakia up next on Tuesday they are strong favourites to make the final.
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: 'Gracias Rafa' is written in 50metre-high letters next door to the Palacio de Deportes where the Davis Cup Finals, Nadal's last event, will be played this week.
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: Rafa fever is fully endemic here and the hosts' pre-event press conference had to be moved to Spain's team hotel to accommodate the demand.
MATTHEW LAMBERT: A strange year for Jannik Sinner had a fairytale ending as he won the ATP Finals in Turin, serenaded to the title by his adoring Italian fans.
MATTHEW LABERT IN MALAGA: Gangs of Brits have been known to do some damage on the Costa del Sol and the carnage continued as Emma Raducanu within a match of the semi-finals.
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: If Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu continue to play as good a game as their captain is talking, Canada had better be worried.
King - for whom the Billie Jean King Cup is named in honour of - won 39 Grand Slam titles in a 22 year professional career including 12 singles titles, 16 in women's doubles and 11 in mixed doubles.
When Nick Kyrgios, still reeling from a messy break-up, announced in late 2021 he was dating unknown uni student Costeen Hatzi, most of us - myself included - assumed it wouldn't last.
MATTHEW LAMBERT: Raducanu, now 22, took care of Germany's Jule Niemeier 6-4, 6-4 to put GB 1-0 up in the tie, leaving Katie Boulter the task of beating Laura Siegemund/
MATTHEW LAMBERT IN MALAGA: The British No2 is here with team GB for the Billie Jean King Cup finals, her first outing since twisting ligaments in her left foot in Seoul almost two months ago.
The Russian star had vented his fury by smashing his racket on the ground and throwing it into the air during his straight-sets defeat by Taylor Fritz earlier in the week.
The two-time Wimbledon champion will take to the stage for four nights in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London, fittingly concluding the show, called 'Centre Stage' in south London.
The 29-year-old is due to make his return to the court at the World Tennis League in December, having only played one game of professional tennis in two years.
His rage would take a peculiar turn in the second set, with the 2021 US Open Champion trading his racquet-smashing attitude for a more blase throwing technique.
Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova has slammed tennis commentator Jon Wertheim whose remarks about her physical appearance saw him axed by a TV network.
20-year-old Coco Gauff won the WTA Finals for the first time by rallying to beat Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) in the season-ending final on Saturday.
The British No 2 will take much succour from making his first final since February 2023 but it was French qualifier Benjamin Bonzi who won his maiden tour-level title.
Norrie has struggled with fitness this year and is playing only his third event since July, after a three-month lay-off with an arm injury saw him miss the Olympics and US Open.
Former Australian tennis champion Jelena Dokic's awful relationship with her father is well documented - and now she has opened up about the hole on her tennis resume that bothers her to this day.
MATTHEW LAMBERT: Katie Boulter was crushed by Russian rising star Diana Shnaider in the Hong Kong Open final, a damp squib after some fireworks over the last couple of weeks.
Riddle, who has dated the American tennis star since 2020, opened up on the terrifying ordeal in a series of posts on her Instagram story after a burglar tried to get into their Airbnb accommodation.