Sports

In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Holger Rune at the Shanghai Masters to become the lowest ranked player on the ATP rankings to reach a Masters 1000 semi-final in 26 years and the first in the 21st century. (The Independent) (ATP)

• https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/valentin-vacherot-holger-rune-shanghai-masters-result-b2842380.html
• https://www.atptour.com/en/news/rune-vacherot-shanghai-2025-qf

Arts and culture

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art". (CNN)

• https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/09/style/laszlo-krasznahorkai-nobel-prize-literature-intl