National women's champion Aparna Popat moved into the second round of the tournament.
U.S. captain Billie Jean King called up the big guns for the tie against the Czech Republic.
The 13th seeded Czech proved too strong for Serb, who lifted the Suzanne Lenglen Cup in 2008, winning 7-5, 6-4.
The Indians pairing with David Rikl and Max Mirnyi respectively scored contrasting wins in the first round doubles at Wimbledon.\n\n
Paes and Nenad Zimonjic entered the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters beating Mahesh Bhupathi and Martin Damm on Friday.
Yuki Bhambri geared up for India's Davis Cup tie against Czech Republic by annexing his first Challenger level singles title of the season as he defeated local favourite Di Wu in the final of the $50,000 tournament, in Shanghai on Sunday.
Organisers are confident a rain-hit opening day will not hold up the tournament.
Olympic champion Neeraj admitted that his comeback from outside the medal position midway into World Athletics javelin throw final was 'challenging, but he knew that a good throw was around the corner.
Czech Tomas Berdych claimed his first ATP singles title in over a year with a comprehensive 6-4, 6-2 victory over Croatia's Marin Cilic at the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Sunday.
IMAGES from the Australian Open matches played on Thursday
Serbia's world number one Novak Djokovic will return to Davis Cup action after a season's absence when he leads his country against Croatia in the first round in March, he said on Wednesday.
The top seeds eaily beat the Russian pair of Denis Golovanov and Andrei Olhovskiy in a quarter-final match at the Moscow ATP event.
Neeraj Chopra beat a star-studded field with a best throw of 88.67m to begin his season in style.
Neeraj Chopra said the challenge throughout the season was how to keep his mind away from the injury and focus more on his game.
Bhupathi and Paes are in the separate half of the draw and may face each other in the final.
But Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic failed to make it to the second round in the Nasdaq Open tennis tournament.
The Indian girl and Alisa Kleybanova defeated Emma Laine of Finland and Nadja Pavic of Crotia 6-1, 6-2 in the quarters.
The fifth seeded pair defeated Spaniards Juan Ignacio Carrasco and Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
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Former champion Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand overwhelmed Belgian Kristof Vliegen in the ATP Chennai Open.
They beat the third seeded pair of Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia 6-2, 6-4 in a second round match.
A summary of Friday's Euro 2020 qualifying matches.
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.
The Indian pair went down to Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Daniel Nestor of Canada at the ATP Tennis Masters in Cincinnati.
Morten Olsen felt his team's inability to take their chances was their biggest problem.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis saw off the challenge of Australian team of Casey Dellacqua and Samantha Stosur to move to the second round of the BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated their rivals 6-3 7-5 in just 68 minutes in their opening round of the USD 6,844,139 hard court event. Sania and Martina saved four of the six breakpoints they faced in the match and broke their rivals five times in the tight contest. They next face local girl Vania King and Russia's Alla Kudryavtseva, who beat Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Czech Republic's Barbora Strycova 4-6 6-3 10-5. In the men's event, Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea, seeded fifth, are up against Spanish team of Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lpez in their first round of the USD 7,037,595 event.
India's Leander Paes and his partner Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic were knocked out in the men's doubles quarter-finals of BMW Open by the Austrian-Brazilian combine of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in Munich, on Thursday.
Germany went down 2-0 in their final warm-up match for Euro 2004.
The Indo-Belarussian pair lost to Arnaud Clement and Sebastian Grosjean in the second round at the Miami Masters.
Bhupathi and partner Max Mirnyi advanced to the second round in the ATP Tennis Masters while Paes and Divid Rikl lost in the first.
A summary of Friday night's action in the season-opening leg of the Diamond League in Doha on Friday.
The Indian tennis ace will team up with Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic, while Martina to pair with Coco Vandeweghe of the United States.
Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka won a battle of former girls' champions at the Australian Open by easing past Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to advance to the fourth round at Melbourne Park.
The Briton inflicted the American his first defeat since he became world No. 1, winning their Paris Masters semi-final.\n\n
Divij Sharan and Purav Raja moved within a victory from qualifying for the Wimbledon men's doubles event after recording a comfortable straight sets win in London.
Aditi qualified in 45th place and will now play in her second Olympics.
They meet Mark Knowles-Daniel Nestor in the quarters of the ATP Tennis Masters.
The US faces the Czech Republic in the first round from April 26-27.
Top-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, wearing her national colors of blue and yellow, won on "a special night for me," beating Russia's Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday in the first round of the Abierto GNP Seguros in Monterrey, Mexico.
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