Serbia reached the Davis Cup semi-finals for the first time when they completed a 4-1 victory over Croatia in Split Sunday. World number two Novak Djokovic silenced a partisan crowd with a straight-sets win over Marin Cilic to give Serbia an unassailable 3-1 lead and set up a home tie against the Czech Republic, who dispatched Chile 4-1.
The Indo-Zimbabwe pair, who were runners-up in the tournament last year and have the 2008 US Open and the 2010 Australian Open crowns to their name, will take on 11th seeds Wesley Moodie/Lisa Raymond (South Africa/United States) in the final.
Italy is one of 12 host nations across Europe, and plans for the month-long tournament to go ahead as originally planned have been questioned as COVID-19 continues to spread.
World number one Roger Federer advanced to the quarter-finals of the Halle Open on Thursday with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Jan Vacek of the Czech Republic.
One of the planes involved in the incident was being flown by Radka Machova, the 65-year-old leader of the four-member team.
Former world record holder Asafa Powell clocked the fastest time of the year when winning the 100 metres in 9.83 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on Thursday.
Somdev Devvarman has been seeded sixth in the French Open qualifying event and has got an easy opener against Jiri Vanek of Czech Republic.
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis produced a sublime performance as they marched into the quarter-finals of the women's doubles event at Rogers Cup in Toronto on Friday.
Somdev Devvarman's struggle on the ATP circuit continued as the fifth seed Indian crashed out of the Zagreb Challenger event after suffering a first round defeat against unseeded Yuri Schukin.
After losing out to Bangalore-based GMR group for the controversial Delhi airport modernisation contract, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group is now set to battle it in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, for which bids are shortly to be invited. Late last week, ADAG company Reliance Airport Developers Private Limited submitted an expression of interest to the Prague airport authorities. the ADAG company is willing to take a 100 per cent stake in the airport.
Fixtures from the US Open Women's Singles Round 1 matches
Suranjoy Singh clinched the lone gold as Indian boxers rounded off their campaign at the European Grand Prix event in Usti Nad Labem, Czech Republic with four medals. Suranjoy bagged the flyweight gold after beating Armenia's H Danielyan 4-1 on Saturday night.
Fed Cup holders Italy reached their second straight final after Flavia Pennetta overcame Czech Petra Kvitova to seal an unassailable 3-0 lead on Sunday.
India's Sania Mirza continued to stay on top of the WTA women's doubles ranking following her recent victory in the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
American Andy Roddick defeated the Czech Republic's Tomas Berdych 7-5, 6-4 to win the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday after an enthralling final.
And, since, pictures speak more than words, Rediff.com brings you images from these sporting events and others that made headlines in the week gone by.
"I feel very good now, because everyone is a little tired after the World Championships. We gave our 100 per cent there (in Budapest), but for this competition here my focus was to just stay healthy, and we have to focus now for Eugene (Diamond League finals on September 17) and then the (Hangzhou) Asian Games (from September 23).
Sania Mirza and Chinese Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang overcame a late fightback from second seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain to storm into the semi-finals of the $4,500,000 Sony Ericsson Open tennis tournament in Miami on Wednesday. The Indo-Taiwanese pair won 6-3, 7-6(4).
Ruthless Nadal fires Spain World number one Rafael Nadal wasted little time steering Spain into the Davis Cup quarter-finals with a crushing win over Serbia's Novak Djokovic on Sunday. After a 4-1 victory condensed into two days because of weather problems in Benidorm, Spain will take on former champions Germany in the quarter-finals.
Images from the US Open women's semi-finals on Thursday.
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi moved through to the Australian Open mixed doubles final after a comfortable 6-4, 6-1 win over the Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova and Lukas Dlouhy in Melbourne on Friday.
England's miserable week took another turn for the worse on Friday with the publication of the FIFA world rankings
World No 2 Rafael Nadal believes he is in better shape for the start of the 2010 tennis season than he was this year despite having a relatively short time to prepare.
50 million people are not connected to the cyber world in the US.
Rafael Nadal thanked his team-mates for giving him the chance to end a troubled season on a sweet note after Spain sealed victory in the Davis Cup final against Czech Republic on Saturday.
Spain playing Davis Cup tennis on clay in front of a home crowd is about as close to a sure thing as sport provides, and just because Rafael Nadal suddenly looks vulnerable the Czech Republic are not about to forget it.
India's top ranked player Somdev Devvarman and number two Prakash Amritraj have been awarded wildcards for the men's singles main draw at the $ 450,000 ATP Chennai Open to be held at the SDAT, Nungambakkam Stadium, from January 5-11 next year.
The Indian men's and women's teams registered identical 3-1 victories over Czech Republic and Slovenia respectively, in the 10th and penultimate round of the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, on Monday. The women's team, with 14 points, improved to joint-seventh while the men's team moved to joint-ninth place.
Top 10 duo Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco have returned to the Spain side for next month's Davis Cup final against Czech Republic, captain Albert Costa said on Monday.
Rain caused two hours of play to be lost at the French Open on Thursday.
Spain striker Diego Costa could miss next month's European Championship finals due to his latest hamstring injury, Chelsea's interim manager Guus Hiddink said on Friday.
Petra Kvitova will start the defence of her Wimbledon title next week with no competitive grasscourt practice after pulling out of the Aegon International at Eastbourne where she was top seed.
World number one Novak Djokovic received a free pass into the third round of the U.S. Open when Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic withdrew from their match on Wednesday due to a left forearm injury. The walkover provided the top-seeded defending champion with an extended break to improve his niggling left wrist injury before his next match against either Guido Pella of Argentina or Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.
The 19-year old Indian and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Tathiana Garbin at the Nasdaq 100 Open.
Seven-times European champions AC Milan eased some of the pressure on coach Carlo Ancelotti with a 3-1 UEFA Cup win at home to FC Zurich on Thursday.
Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer could go head to head in the first round of next year's Davis Cup after Spain were drawn to face Switzerland in the first round of the World Group on Wednesday.
Spain's Davis Cup captain Albert Costa has a difficult task ahead of him in whittling down the nation's embarrassment of tennis riches to a team of four for December's final against Czech Republic.
They beat David Skoch of Czech Republic and Janette Husarova of Slovakia in their first round match at Wimbledon.
Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles entered the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the US Open after beating Ivan Ljubicic from Croatia and Michael Llodra from France in the quarter-finals of the tournament.Earlier, Fourth seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy entered the semi-finals, beating seventh seeds Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Dick Norman of Belgium 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Tuesday.
