Somdev Devvarman lost the first reverse singles in the Davis Cup World Group tie against Serbia, 4-6, 2-6, 5-7, to world No 18 Viktor Troicki, as India conceded an unredeemable 1-3 lead against the top seeds and defending champions.
Leander Paes and his Italian partner Daniele Bracciali stormed into the semi-finals of the Thailand Open, in Bangkok, defeating the Colombian pair of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah on Thursday.
Second seed Somdev Devvarman and qualifier Yuki Bhambri advanced to the second round of the $50,000 ATP Challenger event with contrasting wins in Charlottesville.
India's ever-improving singles tennis player Somdev Devvarman on Monday gained two positions to jump to a career best 94 in the latest ATP rankings chart.
Somdev Devvarman learnt a good tennis lesson from Mikhail Youzhny and was outclassed 2-6, 1-6, 3-6 in the first reverse singles, resulting in India's ouster from the elite World Group of the Davis Cup tournament in Moscow on Sunday.
Mahesh Bhupathi is the lone Indian survivor at the ATP Rogers Cup as Somdev Devvarman, Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the Masters Series event following defeats in their respective draws.
Somdev Devvarman's stay in the top-100 lasted just a week, as the Indian suffered a huge loss of 15 positions to find himself at 111th spot in the latest ATP rankings. In the WTA rankings, Sania Mirza's slide continued, The Indian ace found herself at No 153 after a loss of 15 places.
Somdev Devvarman suffered a second successive defeat against Serbia's Janko Tipsaveric to crash out of the ATP Farmers Classic.
Somdev Devvarman's good run at the ATP Challenger event in Aptos, USA, came to an end after a semi-final defeat against American Donald Young.
Indian Davis Cupper Somdev Devvarman slumped to his second successive defeat against Mardy Fish and crashed out of the singles event of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport.
Somdev Devvarman overcame an indifferent start to beat Jiri Vanek in a fierce three-set battle and progress to the second round of the French Open qualifying event in Paris on Tuesday.
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.
Somdev Devvarman failed to move beyond the quarter-final stage of the ATP Challenger event in Seoul, Korea after losing his last-eight stage match in straight sets to Dusan Lojda of Czech Republic.
Disappointed with Somdev Devvarman's tame defeat against Mikhail Youzhny, India's Davis Cup captain S P Misra advised the youngster to add some more weapons to his game, saying mere a baseline approach would not win him matches against top players.
India's Somdev Devvarman cruised into the quarterfinals of the South Africa Open after defeating Brazilian Thiago Alves in straight sets in Johannesburg on Thursday.
Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj fought their way into the second round of the men's doubles event of the Australian Open but Rohan Bopanna's challenge came to an end with a first round defeat in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Somdev Devvarman fought an intense battle against Australian qualifier Samuel Groth but eventually lost 6-7(4), 7-6(10), 4-6 in the first round of the Nottingham Challenger. Rohan Bopanna, who entered the main draw via the qualifying event, beat Russian Alexandre Kudryavtsev 2-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Yuki Bhambri avenged his last week's defeat against James Duckworth by knocking out the home favourite Australian from the Traralgon event and earned himself a shot at his second title on the Challenger Tour on Saturday.
India challenge ended in the singles event of the Tashkent ATP Challenger with the straight set defeat of Somdev Devvarman even as Rohan Bopanna advanced to the doubles semi-finals along with partner Yen Hsun Lu.
Somdev Devvarman's quest to win back to back ATP Challenger tournaments remained unfulfilled as he crashed out of the Vancouver Open with a straight sets defeat in the quarter-finals. Somdev went down fighting 4-6, 6-7 (6) against sixth seed Japanese Go Soeda in the last-eight clash in the US $ 1,00,000 hard-court event.
Somdev Devvarman made a shocking first round exit from the ATP Challenger tennis event in Binghamton following a straight sets defeat at the hands of Sergei Bubka even as Prakash Amritraj made a brilliant comeback to advance to the next level. In the doubles event, fourth seeds Harsh Mankad and his American partner David Martin advanced to the quarter-finals after a hard-earned win over wild card pair of Laurynas Grigelis and Andrea Stoppini.
Somdev Devvarman's brilliant run at the USD 75,000 ATP Challenger event was halted by Australian Chris Guccione, who outplayed the Indian in the straight sets.
Harsh Mankad reached the men's doubles finals of the USD 50,000 ATP Challenger tournament in the United States but it was curtains for Somdev Devvarman, who lost the semi-finals along with Treat Conrad Huey.
India's Somdev Devvarman won the ATP Challenger in Lexington after crushing third-seeded Robert Kendrick in straight sets in the final on Sunday. Double NCAA champion Somdev cruised to an emphatic 6-3, 6-3 victory over his Californian opponent to extend his unbeaten streak to 15 since stepping on the tour.
Somdev Devvarman's sensational run at the Chennai Open met with an anti-climactic end as the Indian lost the fiercely fought singles final to world number 27 and third seed Marin Cilic of Croatia 4-6, 6-7 (3) in Chennai on Sunday.
Spain's veteran Carlos Moya, who was stunned by Somdev Devvarman in the Chennai Open on Thursday, says India's rising star is armed with a strong game and predicted that he will soon break into the top 100. Somdev defeated the two-time champion in the second round to set up a quarter-final clash against big serving Croat Ivo Karlovic.
Indian Davis Cupper Somdev Devvarman defeated American qualifier Travis Rettenmaier 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the US $75,000 ATP Challenger in Nashville, US. He next plays American Sam Warburg, who ousted eighth seed Amer Delic 6-3, 7-6(8).
The Indo-Australian pair was beaten by the second-seeded Serbian pair of Llia Bozoljac and Dusan Vemic 6-1, 3-6, 11-13.
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Ammritraj put up a valiant fight before losing to top seed Vincent Spadea in the quarter-finals of the US $50,000 Calabasas Challenger event in California, US. Amritraj, ranked 227 in the ATP charts, lost 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (4) to his formidable American opponent, who is ranked as high as 89 in the list.
India's Somdev Devvarman qualified for the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington DC with a straight sets victory over Japan's Go Soeda on Sunday. The 23-year-old beat second seed Soeda 7-5, 7-5 in the final qualifying round to set up a first round clash with American wildcard Taylor Dent.
Seeded 26th, the Indian Davis Cupper was beaten 0-6, 1-6 by third seed Marcos Daniel of Brazil in the final round of qualifiers, in Paris, on Friday.
Somdev Devvarman recorded his first Davis Cup win to keep India afloat in the second round tie against Chinese Taipei as both the teams were locked 1-1 on the opening day of the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I tie in Kaohsiung (Chinese Taipei) on Friday.
Rohan Bopanna and Saketh Myneni were done in by some 'flawless' tennis played by the Kiwi players according to India coach Zeeshan Ali.
Somdev Devvarman suffered yet another early defeat but Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni continued their impressive run by storming into the singles quarter-finals of the ATP Pune Challenger tournament.
The Indian Davis Cup team was staring at defeat at the zonal level for the first time in five years following shock defeats of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal on the opening day of the second round tie against China, in Tianjin, on Friday.
Leander Paes, partnering Rohan Bopanna, suffered a rare doubles defeat in the Davis Cup as Radek Stepanek and Adam Pavlasek gave Czech Republic a 2-1 lead over India in the World Group play-off tie, in New Delhi, on Saturday.
Second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi survived a scare before diffusing the challenge of Mahesh Bhupathi and Denis Istomin in the quarter-finals of the ATP 500 Dubai Duty Free Championships on Thursday.
Indian players enjoyed a good day on the ATP Challenger tour as Yuki Bhambri reached the singles semifinals of the Traralgon event in Australia while Somdev Devvarman and Saketh Myneni reached the quarter-finals of the Charlottesville event in the United States.
Somdev Devverman kept India's hopes alive in the Davis Cup World Group play-off tie with a 7-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic, in Delhi, on Friday.
Bopanna and Sharan defeated Kazakhstan's Aleksander Bublik and Denis Yevseyev 6-3, 6-4 in 52 minutes.
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