Fernando Gonzalez came back from a set down to beat Ivan Ljubicic 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 and reach the final of the China Open.
Federer welcomed the emergence of new challengers
The Indian players received two of the allotted three wild cards for the ATP event in Mumbai.
Andy Roddick and number two Tommy Haas moved closer to a showdown at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic with third-round victories.
Leander Paes and his Spanish partner Tommy Robredo scored a straight set victory over Ivan Ljubicic and R Soderling to storm into the doubles semi-finals of the Euro 2,270,000 Hamburg ATP Masters Series on Friday. The unseeded Indo-Spanish pair won 6-2, 7-6 (3) to set up a semi-final clash with the second seeded duo of Canadian D Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia, who downed fifth seeded combine of S Aspelin (Sweden) and James Knowles (Austria) 6-2 5-7, 10-8.
top seed Tommy Robredo lost his opening match at the Swedish Open on Monday to Peruvian Luis Horna.
Haas dispatched big-serving American Sam Querrey 6-4 7-5 while Blake completed his 200th career match victory with a 6-1 6-3 demolition of compatriot Scoville Jenkins.
Tommy Haas might be forgiven if he decided to skip Wimbledon from now on as the tournament brings him nothing but bad luck.
The Chilean produced a dazzling display to reach the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time.
His opponent Tommy Haas withdrew on Sunday with an abdominal muscle strain.
A look at how Brazilian model Aline Weber took the world of fashion by storm.
The Swiss world number one needed more than 2- hours to squeeze past Czech Radek Stepanek in Melbourne.
Putin's visit comes at a time when Russia's economy is stalling as oil prices tumble
We round off the week with some good, bad and ugly looks.
The unseeded Russian beat Marcos Baghdatis to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time at the French Open.
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He beat Haas on Saturday to move within one win of equalling Bjorn Borg's record for consecutive victories on grass.
The world number two, whose victory took his winning streak on clay to 75 matches, went through to a semi-final against fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko at the Rome Masters.
The Indian golfer, playing with World No 1 Brooks Koepka (68), had 17 pars and his sole birdie was courtesy a brilliant 30-foot monster putt.
Tommy Robredo demolished fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-2, 6-2 at the Barcelona Open.
Ivo Karlovic utilised a single break of service to upset world number 10 Tommy Haas 7-6 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the US Men's Clay Court Championships on Friday.
Haas, ranked 10th in the world and the 2004 champion here, converted five of 12 break points to defeat the 19-year-old Californian for the third straight time this season.
Florian Mayer put more than a year of injury problems behind him to secure a 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 victory over teenager Alexander Zverev in an all-German final at the Halle Open on Sunday.
In the Dubai Open semis, Federer plays Tommy Haas, while Youzhny takes on Robin Soderling.
The German produced a stunning performance to win the Memphis International for the third time.
Andy Roddick has pounded down 56 aces this week, while Tommy Haas has yet to even face a single break point.
Andy Roddick and Andy Murray eased into the quarterfinal of the Memphis International.
Reader Amit Modi sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Perth, Australia.
Van Gaal also said that they gave the ball away unnecessarily after half-time, insisting that their positions in midfield were not as good as in the first half.
The 10th seed reached his first grand slam final in which he will play world number one Roger Federer on Sunday.
A misfiring Roger Federer beat Spain's Tommy Robredo 6-3, 7-6, 7-5 to enter the semi-final of the Australian Open.
Former world number one and 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya is among those who has confirmed for the event that begins on September 25.
Nadia Petrova and Dmitry Tursunov ensured a 2-0 victory over Spain in the final.
Tommy Robredo came from a set down to beat Mario Ancic and give Spain
Philipp Kohlschreiber upset world No 4 Nikolay Davydenko to put Germany level after Igor Andreev trounced Germany's No 1 Tommy Haas in the opening rubber.
