British no.2 Aljaz Bedene is into the semi-finals of the Chennai Open and Laura Deas earns a second skeleton World Cup medal of her career in Lake Placid. Here's our review of the last 24 hours.
Aljaz Bedene produced a gritty fightback to down Ramkumar Ramanathan in three sets and move into the semi-finals of the Chennai Open.
Bedene lost the first set on a tiebreak but dug deep to emerge a 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 winner in two hours and 18 minutes.
The British number two – currently ranked at a career-high 45 in the world – will now face Croatia’s Borna Coric in the last four of the tournament that he finished as runner-up in 12 months ago.
However, there was disappointment for Andy Murray and Heather Watson as they exited the Hopman Cup despite a convincing win over Germany.
The Brits whitewashed the Germans 3-0 in Perth but needed France to beat Australia Green in order to advance to Saturday’s final.
And that was not to be the case as Australian duo Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova held their nerve to win a mixed doubles third set tiebreak to book their place in the showpiece.
Laura Deas picked up her second skeleton World Cup medal of the season after coming third at the event in Lake Placid.
The 27-year-old won a maiden World Cup gold in Altenberg back in November and looked on course for a second victory of the season when she finished her first run in 55.16 seconds, equal first with Switzerland’s Marina Gilardoni.
However on the second run, Anne O’Shea of the USA stunned everyone with a time of 55.08, to claim victory over Gilardoni by 0.09 seconds with Deas a further 0.16 seconds back in third.
Fellow Brit Donna Creighton came home in tenth place, her best World Cup performance so far this season.
Read a full recap of the event here
The Olympic Games may be Richard Kilty's main target this season but the sprinter claims his first order of business is retaining his World Indoor title.
At the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Kilty clocked a personal best time of 6.49 seconds to claim 60m gold ahead of USA's Marvin Bracy and Qatar's Femi Ogunode.
This year's event takes place in Portland, Oregon starting on March 17 and the Brit is keen to emulate Canada's Bruny Surin by clinching a second world title.
The 26-year-old is also the current European Indoor 60m champion and although August's Olympics are weighing heavily on his mind, he is also set on making history indoors.
"Bruny Surin won the world title twice. But I don't think anyone's gone back to back with the Europeans in the middle," Kilty told the Daily Record.
"At the minute I hold every major title over 60 metres. So to do it again would be massive.
"But I'm going to take each race step by step. The main thing this year is the Olympics. I want to break the 10-second barrier over 100m.
"If I qualify from the first two or three races we'll see what I can do at the World Indoors."
Murray Cochrane is finding his feet at the highest level of short track speed skating and admits clocking a new British record has him full of confidence heading into 2016.
After being the overall 2015 Star Class Series winner, Cochrane has stepped up to World Cup level this season and is already looking at home.
He reached the semi-finals of the 1500m at the World Cup event in Shanghai – ultimately finishing 17th out of 47 – but perhaps more impressively knocked almost a second off Jack Whelbourne’s British record.
And the 22-year-old admits he is now dreaming big after seeing all his hard work pay off in such style.
“I never expected the British record, so it’s always good to have things like that pay off,” he said. “You try so hard in training every day so to be rewarded with something like that means a lot.
“In the back of my mind, the next Winter Olympics has always been a target but I can see it being a lot more realistic and achievable with the direction I’m going and the belief I have with the British record and whatnot.”
Read more from Murray here
Kian Emadi has been brought into the Great Britain squad for the final round of the Track Cycling World Cup series in Hong Kong following Matt Gibson’s withdrawal.
Gibson was forced to pull out through illness, enabling Emadi – who has recently transferred to the endurance squad from the sprint team – to step up.
The event takes place at the Hong Kong Velodrome from 16-17 January and is the final major event before the Track Cycling World Championships in London in March.