Rohan Bopanna's fine showing in the opening singles could see him partner Mahesh Bhupathi in Saturday's crucial doubles, in the Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan.
Top seed Mara Santangelo of Italy, ranked 36, is potentially the only player who can stop the Indian ace from winning the Bangalore Open.
The second seeds beat the Russia's Elena Vesnina and Anastassia Rodionova in the final of the WTA Bangalore Open.
The 32-million-pound National Tennis Centre is aiming to provide everything necessary to aspiring world number ones on a single site.
Swiss champion Patty Schnyder has confirmed her participation in the Bangalore Open this year.
The WTA Bangalore Open is now a Tier II event and will offer the highest prize money for a tennis event in India.
In the semi-finals of the ITF tournament, unseeded Ashutosh beat Chinese Davis Cupper Yu Jr Wang, while Sun accounted for top seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan.
He will also officiate at Wimbledon along with woman umpire Payal Jain and Ritu Sharma.
'I LOVE YOU, Roger. Thank you for everything you've done in tennis and with myself. Tennis world will never be the same without you.'
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj beat Jasper Smit of The Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinal.
Birbal Wadhera, a tennis umpire from Chandigarh, has been selected for umpiring at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London.
Australia's John Blom is the neutral umpire and India's Punit Gupta the chair umpire for the April 7-9 Davis Cup zonal play-off encounter.
Brad Gilbert has agreed to coach Andy Murray and assist the LTA with its performance programmes.
Raghbir Singh Mhajan was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to tennis.
However, his compatriots Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar and Rohan Bopanna were eliminated from the ITF Futures Tennis Championship.
Promising Indian tennis ace Karan Rastogi says though he didn't play a game in the Davis Cup match against New Zealand, all the same it was a great learning experience.
The British number one ended association with Brad Gilbert after 17 months.
The Italian staged a remarkable recovery to beat Jelena Kostanic of Croatia and capture her maiden WTA singles title.
All the six aspirants playing in the qualifying rounds of the Bangalore Open were eliminated.
Former British No 1 Elena Baltacha has been diagnosed with liver cancer, the Scot said on Friday.
US WNBA All-Star Griner's detention in Russia extended
With British tennis enduring a terrible slump that shows no sign of ending, the sport's officials have turned to him for inspiration.
Kannamwar has also officiated as a chair umpire in the Australian, US, French Open and the Olympic Games.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Simon Greul of Germany in the ITF Futures tournament.
The eighth seed was beaten by qualifier Punam Reddy in the ITF tournament.
Prakash Amritraj bagged his third successive title, winning the ITF Masters crown.
The US-based Indian demolished national hardcourt champion Vinod Sridhar in the ITF Satellite tournament
The fifth seed Swiss, Ivo Heuberger, defeated Thailand's Danai Udomchoke 6-2, 6-3 to win the singles crown
The victory earned Bopanna a meeting with Russia's Dmitri Vlasov in the f inal of the ITF Futures tournament.
National hardcourt champion Vinod Sridhar, however, went down to second seed Dmitri Vlasov in the ITF Futures tournament.
Rohan Bopanna, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, Manoj Mahadevan and Vinod Sridhar made it to the second round in the Delhi leg of the tournament.\n\n
Former world number one Maria Sharapova will compete at the Birmingham Classic grasscourt event in the lead-up to Wimbledon, Britain's Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) announced.
Britain No 1 Andy Murray's agent has confirmed that the tennis ace has got engaged to his long-term girlfriend Kim Sears.
The All India Tennis Association has decided to invite India's top players for a training camp at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association in New Delhi with an aim to provide a platform for their return to competitive action from next year.
Rohit Rajpal will continue as India's non-playing captain. He took over as captain last year after the country's top players and then captain Mahesh Bhupathi refused to travel to Pakistan in November. India is scheduled to travel to Croatia for their next tie on March 6 and 7.
India were today drawn to play New Zealand at home in their next Davis Cup tie in the Asia/Oceania Group I competition, which is scheduled for February 3-5. It was after beating New Zealand 3-2 in an away tie that India qualified for the World Group Play-offs in 2015 season. India are back in the Asia Oceania zone after being whitewashed by five-time champions Spain in the World Group play-off tie.
With Yuki Bhambri and Somdev Devvarman still recovering from their respective injuries, India is set to field same set to players in the upcoming Davis Cup World Group Play-off against Spain, that beat South Korea 4-1 in July.
The level of media coverage surrounding Maria Sharapova's return to tennis from a doping suspension has been a key factor in the five-time Grand Slam winner being offered wildcards to events, men's world number one Andy Murray has said.
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