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BELGRADE - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic will not be competing at this season's Paris Masters.

Quoting unofficial sources, Sport klub reports Djokovic will not be defending his title at the Bercy, which almost certainly means he will not be playing at the ATP Finals in Turin either, even if he finishes the year in the Top 8 of the ATP rankings.

US credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) reaffirmed Greece's investment-grade rating of BBB- with a "Positive" outlook on Friday night.

The next review of Greece's economy by S&P is expected in spring 2025, and the rating agency may well proceed to an upgrade then, given the "Positive" outlook it maintains for the country.

Spanish tennis great Rafael Nadal announced his retirement from professional tennis at the end of the 2024 season through a social media post. The 38-year-old revealed that his final competitive event will be the Davis Cup Final, scheduled to take place in Malaga from November 19 to 24, according to the ATP.

Andrei Rublev also fell in the semi-finals and thus Novak showed once again that neither fatigue, nor a virus, nor enormous efforts in his later years - could do anything to him. Before the final with Grigor Dimitrov (Sunday, 15.00), a series of praises for Djokovic arrived from an unexpected address.

A wave of strikes that disrupted the three largest U.S. automakers for six weeks looked to have been finally resolved, as the auto workers union reached a tentative agreement with holdout General Motors.

The GM deal announced by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union comes after pacts with Stellantis and Ford, appearing to end the strike on the "Big Three" automakers.

Ford has said the need to retore manufacturing operations outweighed the additional costs to sweeten a labor contract to end a strike that has cost it some $1.3 billion.

Ford is halting work on a major battery plant in the northern U.S. state of Michigan, the automaker has said, just seven months after launching the project with a Chinese partner.

The stoppage, which a Ford a representative confirmed to AFP, comes as the company faces a major strike along with both of the other "Big Three" U.S. automakers, Stellantis and General Motors.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Novak Djokovic, the world number one in men's tennis, will play at the Paris Masters, the ATP Finals in Turin and the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga until the end of the season, according to his official website.

Djokovic will skip the Astana ATP tournament and the Shanghai Masters.

NEW YORK - Serbia's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic is through to the US Open quarter-finals after beating Croatian Borna Gojo 6-2, 7-5, 6-4.

Djokovic, who won after 146 minutes of play, has reached his 13th career US Open quarter-final and will next face American Taylor Fritz, who defeated Switzerland's Dominic Stricker 7-6 (7-2), 6-4.

CINCINNATI - Serbia's top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic will also be playing in the men's doubles event at this season's Cincinnati Masters tournament alongside compatriot Nikola Cacic, US media have reported.

Djokovic, who has previously announced he would be competing in the singles event at Cincinnati this season, won the singles title at the tournament in 2018 and 2020.