ROME, Italy—This ain’t Texas, but the United Kingdom is shaping up to be the perfect place for Coco Gauff to catch Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour, which kicked off earlier this month in Los Angeles.

“I tried to find a way to fight,” Arthur Fils said after his comeback win over Stefanos Tsitsipas in Rome on Sunday. “So I found this, this kind of excuse to go ahead and fight.” ...

“I’m from Czech Republic,” the Prostejov-born Mensik reminded me. “I’ve been playing my whole life on the clay courts. When I was a kid, I was practicing seven-eight months during the year on clay.