National champion Ashutosh Singh tamed the ill-tempered Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the first round of the ATP Challenger in New Delhi.
India's numero uno tennis player Somdev Devvarman and US-based Prakash Amritraj crashed out out in the opening round of the $ 50,000 ATP Challenger, while compatriot Rohan Bopanna entered the second round of the hard court event in Bangkok on Tuesday.
India's second seeds Purav Raja and Divij Sharan were upset in straight sets in the final of the Tashkent Challenger by the unseeded Russian pairing of Mikhail Elgin and Teymuraz Gabashvili, in Tashkent, on Saturday.
Indian players made a positive start at the ATP Nottingham Challenger event as Somdev Devvarman recorded victory in singles while Divij Sharan and Purav Raja advanced to the doubles quarter-finals in Nottingham.
It will be the second consecutive final for Paes and Angel, who also reached the final at Montrrey Challenger last week, ending runners-up to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Marcelo Arevalo.
Andy Murray knows his way around the All England Club better than any player and can give most top seeds a run for their money.
India's Davis Cup coach Nandan Bal says despite losing in both his matches, Somdev Devvarman was the find of the tie against Romania.
India's tennis icon Sania Mirza, who played her last Grand Slam at the Australian Open last month, was roped in by the Royal Challengers Bangalore team as their mentor in the inaugural Women's Premier League.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya was the only Indian player to advance to the second round of the $ 50,000 ATP challenger tournament in New Delhi on Monday as his compatriots Ashutosh Singh and Yuki Bhambri failed to cross the first hurdle.
Somdev Devvarman entered the final of the Lexington Challenger after Xavier Malisse retired from the semi-final with an injury.
Somdev Devvarman beat USA's Bobby Reynolds 6-7, 7-5, 6-4 in the second round at the Lexington Challenger.
The Indo-Pak combo have decided to extend their partnership till the year's last Grand Slam event.
He was beaten by Arvind Parmar of Great Britain in the
The top seeded pair was shocked by Americans Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in the first round of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.
Rohan Bopanna and Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas lost to Raemon Sluiter and Peter Wessels in the final of the Siemens Open on Sunday.
The Indian pair of Harsh Mankad and Ashutosh Singh pulled off an upset and tamed second seeds Adam Feeney and Purav Raja in straight sets to move into the final of the men's doubles event in the ATP Challenger tennis tournament in New Delhi on Thursday
Yuki Bhambri went down fighting to top seed Australia's Jordan Thompson 5-7, 6-3, 5-7 in the singles final of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger, in Chennai, on Saturday.
Indian Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan squandered a set lead to go down fighting against Denys Mulchanov of Ukraine in the pre-quarterfinals of the $125000 Tashkent Challenger on Wednesday.
India's top two singles players Sumit Nagal and Sasi Kumar Mukund have conveyed to the national tennis federation that they won't travel to Pakistan for the next Davis Cup tie.
The India-Pakistan pair beat Adrian Cruciat of Romania and Adrian Menendez of Spain to make the grade in the ONGC ATP Challenger.
The Indo-Pakistani duo lost to the top seeded Australian-South African pair of Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie 7-6(10), 6-3 at the $150,000 Malaysian Open ATP Challenger tournament in Kuala Lumpur .
For the first time since 2004, neither Novak Djokovic nor the injured Rafael Nadal will be in the Rome final.
Nagal's court coverage and solid defence in long drawn points was the highlight of his win.
The Indian Davis Cupper lost 2-6, 4-6 to Janko Tipsarevic in the final of the Bukhara Challenger.
The Indian Davis Cupper made it to the quarter-finals in the singles and doubles. In singles he beat Ivan Miranda of Peru 6-4, 6-3, while in doubles he teamed with Alex Kuznetsov to defeat Colin Ebelthite of Australia and Peter Polansky of Canada 6-2, 4-6, 11-9.
The Indian went down fighting 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3) to Czech Republic's seventh seed Jan Hernych.
The Indo-Pak Express knocked out Algerian Ouahab and Spaniard Vicente 6-3 6-4 in the semifinals.
Michel Kratochvil beat him in the USD 125,000 ATP Challenger Series in Segovia, Spain.
The Indian youngster shocked the Pakistani second seed in the US $25,000 ATP Challenger.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi entered the doubles semi-finals, beating Dominiq Meffert and Simon Stadler of Germany in the US $25,000 ATP Challenger in Manchester.
While Karan Rastogi was beaten 6-2, 6-2 by Lukasz Kubot in the first round of the Dharwad ATP Challenger
India's Prakash Amritraj, Rohan Bopanna and Karan Rastogi advanced to the second round of the Chikmagalur Challenger
'The Laver Cup next week in London will be my final ATP event. I will play more tennis in the future, of course, but just not in Grand Slams or on the tour.'
Karan Rastogi upset fourth seed Lukasz Kubot of Poland 6-4, 6-1 to storm into the quarter-finals Chikmagalur Challenger
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Jan Masik of the Czech Republic in the second round of the Cafe Cup ATP Challenger.
All the four Indian players were knocked in the first round of the qualifying event at the Chennai Open.
World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz defeated Tsitsipas in the 2021 US Open and in last year's Miami Masters and Barcelona Open.
Indians failed to impress on day one of the ONGC ATP Challenger tournament as all four of them in singles action lost in New Delhi
The trio will be in action at the $25,000 ATP Challenger, beginning in Bangalore on Monday.\n\n
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