Britain's Andy Murray knocked out top-seeded Russian Nikolay Davydenko 7-5 6-2 on Friday to set up a final meeting with Croatian Ivan Ljubicic at the $1 million Qatar Open.
Arsenal's captain will miss next week's Champions League qualifier due to a lack of pre-season training, while keeper Jens Lehmann is suspended for the third round, first leg tie.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna won the decisive mixed doubles to snatch a 2-1 victory in the Hopman Cup.
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Roger Federer described his Wimbledon draw as one of the toughest of his career.
Call it sacrifice or compromise but Coric is ditching the sinful tiramisu.
Police said an unidentified 25-year-old South Korean fan climbed up a road sign amid wild celebrations after watching his team fight back to win their opening finals match 2-1 over Togo.
Rattled by embarrassing domestic defeats, Chelsea looked jittery before Olivier Giroud settled their nerves with a close range tap-in shortly after halftime at StamfordBridge following good work by N'Golo Kante and Willian in the build-up.
Ivan Ljubicic said he was reserving judgement on proposed round robin play at ATP tournaments next year.
World number 30 Berrettini saved five points in the marathon second set tiebreak and held on to win it 13-11 for his third ATP crown in last 11 months.
Benoit Paire made a remarkable Davis Cup debut for France, outplaying Pablo Carreno-Busta 7-5, 6-1, 6-0 in the opening rubber of the World Group semi-final tie against Spain at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on Friday.
Mario Ancic's defeat left only two players, American James Blake and German Tommy Haas, in contention for the last remaining slot at the season-ending Masters Cup.
He went on a road trip from Dharamsala to Kaza.
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Images from Day 9 of the French Open in Paris on Monday.
New AC Milan coach Sinisa Mihajlovic is known for his hot temper and iron will and fans will hope those traits inspire rather than alienate his players as he bids to turn around the fortunes of Italy's fallen giants.
Top seed Ivan Ljubicic won his third title of the year by beating fifth seed Fernando Gonzalez of Chile 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 in the Vienna Open final on Sunday.
"Various factors led to it, things were adding up," said Bhupathi.
The top seed proved too good for Croatian baseliner Karolina Sprem in the Family Circle Cup.
The world No 8 said he hopes to continue teaming with the Indian ace even after the Mumbai Open.
They routed Michael Berrer of Germany and Kenneth Carlsen of Denmark on Sunday.
Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis won his first ATP title with a 6-4 6-0 victory over Croatian Mario Ancic at the China Open on Sunday.
Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea on Saturday made it to the final of the men's doubles event at the ATP World Tour Finals, in London, after registering a straight-set victory against Croatian Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo of Brazil.
Both players were taken to three sets by lesser-fancied opponents in the semi-finals.
Ivan Ljubicic and Nikolay Davydenko advanced to the quarterfinals of the China Open.
The Indo-Croatian pair beat the third seeded American duo of Eric Butorac and Travis Parrott at the China Open.
VfL Wolfsburg ended Arminia Bielefeld's sensational German Cup run, crushing the third division club 4-0 on Wednesday to book a spot in their first Cup final in 20 years where they will face Borussia Dortmund.
Levante were relegated from La Liga after a six-season stay in the Spanish top flight as two late goals condemned them to a 3-1 defeat at Malaga on Monday.
Round-up of the Rolland Garros tournament being played in Paris.
IMAGES from Day 5 of the 2020 US Open in New York on Friday.
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Roger Federer will hope the past does not come back to haunt him on Wednesday when he faces Mario Ancic in the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
Both players registered convincing victories to move into the second round of Wimbledon.
The 2001 champion beat Italy's Filippo Volandri to set up a third-round showdown with Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon.
The 16-year-old backed his aggressive backhand throughout the contest and went on to win 17 of his 23 points at the net to seal victory in 61 minutes.
"As it seems now, I'm likely to take over as the team captain from Pilic, who will stay on as my adviser," the 34-year-old told a local newspaper.
Korean qualifier Hyeon Chung produced the first upset of the ATP Chennai Open by ousting last year's finalist Borna Coric with a straight-set win in the opening round of the $505730 hard court event in Chennai on Monday.
Croatia have set a simple target of qualifying for the knockout phase from a group expected to be dominated by holders Brazil.
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