The world number one repeated his Australian Open final victory over Marat Safin with a 7-6, 7-6 win to reach the second round of the Dubai Open.
Mexico, needing only a draw to reach the World Cup round of 16, were level 0-0 with Sweden at half-time in their Group F match on Wednesday, after surviving an aerial bombardment and a VAR review.
Argentine Guillermo Canas crushed Germany's Lars Burgsmuller 6-1, 6-0 to win the Shanghai Open on Sunday.
A stunning Andre Carrillo volley gave Peru their first World Cup goal in 36 years before captain Paolo Guerrero grabbed a second as the Andean nation condemned Australia to a 2-0 defeat in Sochi on Tuesday and an early exit from Russia.
India's Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea began their campaign at the Wimbledon championships with a hard-fought win over over Tim Smyczek and Jiri Vesley in the men's doubles.
The Argentine reached the second round at Wimbledon, overcoming Wesley Moodie in a match that spanned four days due to bad weather.
Unseeded Gaston Gaudio fought back from two sets down and saved two match points to win the French Open.
The French Open men's singles finalist says it is his dream to give Argentina its first Olympic tennis gold medal.
The Indian Davis Cupper battled for 172 minutes to get the better of Slovakia's Michal Mertinek in the ATP Challenger.
David Nalbandian won his delayed singles match and then teamed up with Mariano Puerta to win the doubles.
The former overpowered Alberto Martin while Coria beat David Nalbandian at the Monte Carlo Masters.
Andy Roddick beat Vince Spadea 6-1, 6-3, while Guillermo Coria beat Fernando Gonzalez 4-6, 7-6, 6-1 in the semi-finals of the Nasdaq-100 Open.
The 24-year-old was staring at defeat while down a set and a break but dug deep to prevail in two hours 24 minutes for his 200th tour match victory and his 10th ATP title.
The Argentine joined third seed Rainer Schuettler, fifth seed Mark Philippoussis and sixth seed Tim Henman as a first round loser.
The Dutchman Martin soared up the ATP Tour rankings to 15th from 46th place after reaching the French Open final. \n\n
The world number five went down 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 to Cyril Saulnier in the first round.
Andy Roddick battled past feisty Argentine Guillermo Coria to book the last semi-final berth at the ATP Masters Cup.
Defending champion David Nalbandian beat top seed Andy Roddick 7-5 7-5 in the Swiss Indoors semi-finals.
The British ace was beaten by defending champion David Nalbandian in the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors.
The second seed displayed the ruthless form that took him up 110 places in the world rankings last year.
Argentine clay court specialist Coria failed to make an impression on grass and was dumped in the first round at Wimbledon.
The Spanish claycourt maestro won his first Grand Slam title when he beat unseeded Dutchman Martin Verkerk 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.
Coria overcame compatriot Mariano Zabaleta in five sets to set up a French Open quarter-final with the US ace.\n\n
They beat Joshua Eagle and Jared Palmer in the quarter-final of the Italia Masters. \n\n
Spanish top seed Juan-Carlos Ferrero retained his crown at the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Argentina's Guillermo Coria.
The Spaniard outgunned Argentine Guillermo Coria to win the Buenos Aires Open.
The fourth seeded Brazilian had to move indoors to finally win his stop-start second round clash with American Michael Russell in the rain-interrupted Auckland Open.
They posted comfortable semi-final victories over Jean Rene Lisnard of France and Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina respectively in the Tata Open tennis tournament.
Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick stayed on course for an all-American U.S. Open final.
With Argentina looking dysfunctional and under-performing throughout the qualifiers, Messi's dream of matching Maradona in Russia always looked a tall order.
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