Argentine Guillermo Canas crushed Germany's Lars Burgsmuller 6-1, 6-0 to win the Shanghai Open on Sunday.
The Argentine reached the second round at Wimbledon, overcoming Wesley Moodie in a match that spanned four days due to bad weather.
Unseeded Gaston Gaudio fought back from two sets down and saved two match points to win the French Open.
The French Open men's singles finalist says it is his dream to give Argentina its first Olympic tennis gold medal.
David Nalbandian won his delayed singles match and then teamed up with Mariano Puerta to win the doubles.
The Indian Davis Cupper battled for 172 minutes to get the better of Slovakia's Michal Mertinek in the ATP Challenger.
The former overpowered Alberto Martin while Coria beat David Nalbandian at the Monte Carlo Masters.
Andy Roddick beat Vince Spadea 6-1, 6-3, while Guillermo Coria beat Fernando Gonzalez 4-6, 7-6, 6-1 in the semi-finals of the Nasdaq-100 Open.
The Argentine joined third seed Rainer Schuettler, fifth seed Mark Philippoussis and sixth seed Tim Henman as a first round loser.
The Dutchman Martin soared up the ATP Tour rankings to 15th from 46th place after reaching the French Open final. \n\n
The world number five went down 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Cyril Saulnier in the first round.
Andy Roddick battled past feisty Argentine Guillermo Coria to book the last semi-final berth at the ATP Masters Cup.
Defending champion David Nalbandian beat top seed Andy Roddick 7-5 7-5 in the Swiss Indoors semi-finals.
The British ace was beaten by defending champion David Nalbandian in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors.
The second seed displayed the ruthless form that took him up 110 places in the world rankings last year.
Argentine clay court specialist Coria failed to make an impression on grass and was dumped in the first round at Wimbledon.
The Spanish claycourt maestro won his first Grand Slam title when he beat unseeded Dutchman Martin Verkerk 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.
Coria overcame compatriot Mariano Zabaleta in five sets to set up a French Open quarter-final with the US ace.\n\n
They beat Joshua Eagle and Jared Palmer in the quarter-final of the Italia Masters. \n\n
Spanish top seed Juan-Carlos Ferrero retained his crown at the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Argentina's Guillermo Coria.
The Spaniard outgunned Argentine Guillermo Coria to win the Buenos Aires Open.
With Argentina looking dysfunctional and under-performing throughout the qualifiers, Messi's dream of matching Maradona in Russia always looked a tall order.
The fourth seeded Brazilian had to move indoors to finally win his stop-start second round clash with American Michael Russell in the rain-interrupted Auckland Open.
They posted comfortable semi-final victories over Jean Rene Lisnard of France and Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina respectively in the Tata Open tennis tournament.
Champions Barcelona moved five points clear at the top of La Liga with a 2-1 win at Getafe, while Real Madrid fell to a 2-0 defeat by Real Sociedad.
Barca are now second on 66 points, two behind Real who have a game in hand as they chase a first title triumph since 2012.
Somdev Devvarman joined compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the singles main draw of the ATP Chennai Open with a come-from-behind victory over Briton James Ward in the final qualifying round in Chennai on Sunday.
Two-time Grand Slam winner Victoria Azarenka crashed out of the French Open in the first round losing 5-7, 5-7 to Katerina Siniakova on Monday, playing only her fifth tournament of the year after a legal battle over the custody of her son.
Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick stayed on course for an all-American U.S. Open final.
For all his renowned mental strength it was psychological exhaustion that made Rafael Nadal consider skipping the season-ending ATP World Tour finals this year, the 14-times grand slam champion said on Tuesday.
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