Tennis Tracker: All the latest news plus all of today's action from Lyon and the Davis Cup

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Tennis Tracker: All the latest news plus all of today's action from Lyon and the Davis Cup

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Garcia takes on Paolini in the quarter-finals at Lyon
Garcia takes on Paolini in the quarter-finals at LyonProfimedia
The Australian Open is over but the ATP and WTA tours go on. What's more, Flashscore's tennis coverage keeps moving forward at full steam. In our daily Tennis Tracker, we bring you the most interesting news, video highlights, reactions and social media posts that you should not miss from the wide world of tennis.

20:59 CET: Ukraine's Elina Svitolina (28) said on Friday that the ban on Russian and Belarusian players competing at Wimbledon must continue after they were excluded from last year's championships. Read the full story with Flashscore.

19:30 CET: Caroline Garcia is into the semi-finals in Lyon, after battling past Jasmine Paolini 7-5 7-5. She will face the winner of Camila Osorio vs Linda Noskova which is up next, and you can follow right HERE.

Garcia vs Paolini highlights
WTA

16:15 CET: No.1 seed Bianca Andreescu overcomes a second set wobble to beat Marta Kostyuk 6-0 7-6(3) and reach the semi-finals in Thailand. She will meet Lesia Tsurenko tomorrow, who beat Tatjana Maria 6-1 6-1.

The other semi-final will feature Xinyu Wang and Lin Zhu.

Andreescu vs Kostyuk highlights
WTA

13:37 CET: Mackenzie McDonald and Tommy Paul have given the United States a 2-0 lead in their Davis Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan, winning their singles rubbers in straight sets in Tashkent.

McDonald cruised past Sergey Fomin 6-4 6-1 in little over an hour, sealing the match with an ace, while Australian Open semi-finalist, Paul, claimed a 6-1 7-6(6) victory over Khumoyun Sultanov, who is ranked 461 places below the American. The tie will continue on Saturday.

12:06 CET: In the first quarter-final in Hua Hin, China's Xinyu Wang has beaten Brit Heather Watson 6-3 6-7(6) 6-4 to book her place in the last four.

11:56 CET: The Davis Cup qualifiers get underway today, which will see 12 nations join last year's winners Canada, runners-up Australia, and wild cards Spain and Italy in the group stage in September.

The teams will battle it out over the next three days, with Great Britain's Cameron Norrie, Germany's Alexander Zverev and the USA's Tommy Paul all in action today.

8:40 CET: News in overnight: Nick Kyrgios' assault charge has been dismissed despite the Australian's guilty plea. Read more about it HERE.

7:46 CET - Welcome to our daily Tennis Tracker for the 3rd of February. We will be posting all the major updates from the WTA Opens in Hua Hin and Lyon throughout the day here plus any breaking news from the world of tennis.