Teenagers Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez have served noticed they are the faces of a new women's tennis generation, yet only one gets a fairytale ending in Saturday's US Open final.

The 37-year-old kept his unbeaten record this week intact against the 15th-ranked Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Martina Hingis, who is married to a former sports physician Harald Leemann, wrote that by her next birthday the couple would become a family of three.

South Africa won by 20 runs after scoring 195 for four but opening batsman Soumya Sarkar went on a ferocious assault at the start of the Bangladesh innings before falling to Phehlukwayo for 47.

Swiss tennis great Martina Hingis announced her "definite" retirement on Thursday, signalling the end of a career which took her from 1990s teenage superstar to doubles world number one some 20 years later.

Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan, who shared a USD 675,000 top prize, made only two unforced errors in the match while the Czech duo made 18.

Despite the loss, it was season's best performance for Sania Mirza at the Majors as she fell in the third rounds of the Australian Open and the Wimbledon while at the French Open she had made a first round exit.

Sania Mirza-Shuai Peng knocked out of the US Open 2017 after losing 4-6, 4-6 to Martina Hingis-Yung-Jan Chan in the women's doubles semi-final.

India's Sania Mirza reached her first Grand Slam semifinal of the 2017 season with Shuai Peng after edging past Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova in a close two-set battle at the US Open

Sania and Barbora lost the opening set of their semi-final clash on Saturday before staging a brilliant comeback to script a 6-7 6-1 10-4 against their fifth-seeded opponents.