Harsh Mankad beat Toshihide Matsui 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the first round of the US $ 50,000 Natrel de Granby Challenger.
The 'Indo-Pak Express' defeated the French duo of David Guez and Nicolas Tourte 6-2, 7-6(1) in the quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger in Bronx.
Divij Sharan and Purav Raja had to be content with yet another runners-up finish after losing the title clash of the ATP Soweto Open to Prakash Amritraj and Rajeev Ram in Johannesburg.
The Indian youngster rallied from the brink to beat Dominik Meffert of Germany in the second round of the ATP Challenger.
Top seed Yen Hsun Lu of Taipei and seventh seeded Somdev Devvarman of India made it to the second round of the $125,000 ATP Tashkent Challenger at the Olympic Tennis Stadium in Tashkent. Lu outplayed Indian wild card Rohan Bopanna 6-4, 6-2 while Devvarman demolished 281-ranked Spaniard Guillermo Olaso 6-3, 6-2 in first round matches.
While fellow Indian Prakash Amritraj lost to Justin Gimelstob 3-6, 3-6 in the Nottingham ATP Challenger
India's top singles tennis player Somdev Devvarman has been handed a direct entry in the main draw of the ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament after Estonia's Jurgen Zopp pulled out of the event due to a back injury.
The Indian Davis Cup ace beat Joshua Goodall of Britain in a keen final, played on grasscourt.
On a day of upsets in the ATP Challenger, the Indian ace lost to Chinese Taipei qualifier Ti Chen.
The Indian Davis Cupper battled for 172 minutes to get the better of Slovakia's Michal Mertinek in the ATP Challenger.
The Indian challenge ended at the ATP Legg Mason Classic after the opening round defeat of Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi in the doubles event in Washington.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by second seeded Frenchman Gregory Carraz in the ATP Challenger.
Djokovic's official website also confirmed his participation in the Dubai tournament.
Images from Day 1 of the 2024 Australian Open in Melbourne on Sunday.
Prakash Amritraj was upset 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-1 by Phillip King of USA in the second round of the Dharwad Challenger
Pune is likely to grab the hosting rights of India's only ATP 250 event, Chennai Open, from next year with the backing of the Maharashtra state government.
The Russian will meet Germany's Dieter Kindlmann in the final of the Belgaum ATP Challenger.
The fourth seeded South African advanced to the semis of the Belgaum ATP Challenger, beating Russia's Dmitry Vlasov.
With their exit the Indian singles challenge ended in the Belgaum Open ATP Challenger.
The Indian Davis Cupper beat Austria's Zbynek Mlynarik in the quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger.
The duo beat the Taipei pair of Ti Chen and Tzuoo Yeu in the ATP Challenger.
The Indian singles challenge in the ATP Challenger ended, with Harsh Mankad losing to Marco Baghdatis.
Leander Paes, named a reserve in India's Davis Cup team for the Uzbekistan tie, is in line to win his first title of the season, albeit on the Challenger Tour, with Canadian partner Adil Shamasdin.
'To win a medal, the players will have to play a couple of tough rounds. The draws are fine, and balanced and give us the opportunity to go deep.'
The fifth seed will play Thailand's Danai Udomchoke in the final of the ATP Challenger.
They suffered first round defeats in the ATP Challenger.
The 16-year-old battled over three rounds to make the main draw in the ATP Challenger.
There is no let-up for Roger Federer as he prepares for his 12th consecutive appearance at the ATP's season-ending extravaganza.
Spectators were on their feet cheering Leander Paes who in all probability is playing his last ATP event on Indian soil.
Somdev Devvarman extended his excellent run at the ATP Shanghai Challenger by reaching the singles finals with a hard-fought win over Italy's Luca Vanni.
Yuki Bhambri beat Croatia's Matija Ecotic in straight sets to advance to the second round in the US $50,000 ATP Lexington Challenger on Wednesday. Returning to complete Tuesday's unfinished rain-hit match, the Indian youngster conceded only two games, after the match resumed at 4-4, to win 7-5, 6-1.
Six-time champion Roger Federer survived a late-night Swiss semi-final thriller against Stanislas Wawrinka on Saturday to set up an ATP World Tour Finals showdown against Novak Djokovic.
Sania Mirza and her doubles partner Martina Hingis were ousted from the Rogers Cup after the top seeds suffered a straight sets loss to Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik in Toronto on Saturday.
The Indian Davis Cupper beat 156-ranked Frenchman to make the second round in the ATP Challenger.
Gunning for a record seventh appearance at the Olympics this year, one more milestone beckons veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes which is a testament to his longevity on the professional circuit. If the 42-year-old veteran manages to win 11 more matches on the ATP doubles tour this season, he will displace American Sherwood Stewart in the list of players with most number of doubles wins. Stewart is sitting sixth in the table with 728 wins while Paes, a winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, has taken his number to 718 after reaching the third round of the ongoing French Open in Paris. These staggering statistics do not include Paes' victories in the mixed doubles event and the ones on the ATP Challenger Tour. Last year when Paes recorded his last win of the season, he overtook Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman (712), ending 2015 with 713 wins.
Reigning Paris Masters champion Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in a three-set epic on Saturday to set up a title clash with Holger Rune, who reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final after a comfortable win over Felix Auger-Aliassime.
The Indian challenge in the doubles event of the ATP Chennai Open ended on Friday when top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas were shocked by the unseeded Swiss duo of Jean Claude Scherrer and Stanislas Wawrinka 3-6, 6-3, 8-10 in the quarter-finals.
India's leading players Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Sumit Nagal lost in the pre-quarter-finals, ending India's challenge in the men's singles, of the Bengaluru Open, in Bengaluru, on Thursday.
Indian challenge ended at the ATP Paris Masters when Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edourad Roger-Vasselin lost their quarter-final against Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.
The Maharashtra Open in Pune and the Rio Open in Brazil, that precedes the Australian Open, will be rescheduled.
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