MEN’S TENNIS: Jack Draper has been added to Britain’s Davis Cup team for next week’s matches in Manchester following his run to the fourth round of the US Open.

The 21-year-old again showed his huge potential by outperforming the rest of Britain’s singles players in New York, pushing eighth seed Andrey Rublev to four sets before bowing out on Monday.

He joins Cameron Norrie, Dan Evans, Andy Murray and Neal Skupski in the side for matches against Australia, Switzerland and France beginning next Wednesday.

SWIMMING: Three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty sustained a facial injury in a scuffle with fellow Team GB athlete Luke Greenbank, the PA news agency reported today.

Peaty, 28, got involved in a fracas with Greenbank at the British Swimming training centre in Loughborough last Friday. The incident is understood to have occurred following a comment Peaty made to Greenbank.

Peaty did not require any stitches for the injury he suffered, with sources close to the matter describing it as “something and nothing.”

WOMEN’S CRICKET: England spinner Sophie Ecclestone faces a spell on the sidelines following an operation on her shoulder.

Ecclestone suffered a dislocated shoulder while playing for Manchester Originals in The Hundred during August.

Ranked as the world’s top-ranked T20 bowler, Ecclestone had already seen her workload managed before picking up her latest injury and was rested from England’s current white-ball series against Sri Lanka.

MEN’S RUGBY UNION: England are ready to start Tom Curry in Saturday’s seismic World Cup opener against Argentina if there are no setbacks in his recovery from an ankle injury.

Curry missed all four warm-up Tests after spraining the joint during training in early August, but is now poised to make his first appearance since the Premiership final in May.