Neha Uberoi received a wild card for the main draw of the Sunfeast Open 2005 tennis tournament to be held in Kolkata.
Ramkumar Ramanathan proved his ascendancy in Indian tennis yet again as he knocked out Yuki Bhambri from the ATP Indore Open even as India's top player Somdev Devvarman also made an early exit, in Indore, on Thursday.
The up and coming youngster won the boys singles and doubles titles in the SAIL ITF Junior Grade 3 tennis tournament.
The stars tested negative after their urine samples were re-tested for the newly-discovered steroid THG.
Top seed Manisha Malhotra and second seed Rushmi Chakravarthi however made the grade easily, in the ITF Futures tournament.
Prakash Amritraj beat Michael Ouvarov of Britain while unseeded Rastogi sent sixth seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya packing in the MSLTA-ITF Men's Futures tournament.
Joining them in the quarter-finals of the MSLTA-ITF Futures tournament were top seed David Sherwood of Britain, Simon Greul of Germany, Vishal Uppal, Englishman Michael Ouvarov and Karan Rastogi.
Top seed Rohan Bopanna was knocked out of the ONGC-ITF Masters tennis tournament losing both his singles as well as doubles matches.
Shweta Kakhandaki/Poojashree Venkatesh and Sumit Gupta/Vivek Shokeen won their quarter-final matches in the ITF tournament in Islamabad.
The Irishman continued his dominance to win the third leg of the ITF Men's Satellite tennis circuit on Saturday.
The former got the better of Nitin Kirtane while Irishman Peter Clarke beat Vinod Sridhar in the semi-finals of the ITF Satellite tournament.
The Mumbai player was beaten by third seed Konstantin Gruber of Austria.
In a quarter-final between two qualifiers, Kirtane held his nerve to beat the United States' Nima Roshan in the ITF Satellite tournament.
Both entered the quarter-finals in the third leg of the ITF men's tennis tournament.
Second seed Vijay Kannan was thrashed by Ireland's Peter Clarke in the quarter-finals of the ITF tournament.
The Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji in the final.
The Indian youngster won the singles and doubles crown in the ITF Grade 4 Junior championship there.
The second seed demolished qualifier Minori Takemoto of Japan in the ITF Women's Futures tournament.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Chin-Wei Chan clinched the singles title in the US dollar 25,000 MSLTA ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Mumbai.
The sixth seeded Indian will take on compatriot Shruti Dhawan in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tournament in Mumbai.
The eighth seeded Indian lost to German Peter Mayer-Tischer in the ITF Futures event in Colombo.
Andrea Lipovska of Australia pulled off a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 win over a gallant Sagarika Phadke of India.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Simon Greul of Germany in the ITF Futures tournament.
The sixth seeded Indian beaten by unseeded Wing-Yau Chan in the second round of the ITF-Shivaji Park Gymkhana tournament.
Mankad progressed after his opponent Jamie Delgado of England retired due to dehydration, while Capkovic beat Karan Rastogi 6-4, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
The other semifinal match-up will be between Febi Widhiyanto of Indonesia and Malaysian Yew Ming Si.
He was included in the Davis Cup team for the Asia Oceania Group 1 tie against New Zealand from February 6 to 8.
Sania Mirza beat Tetiana Luzhanska of Belarus to make the grade at the ITF Women's World Ranking tournament.
Unseeded Karan Rastogi overcame formidable Nick Munroe of USA 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in a tight quarter-final encounter.
Prakash Amritraj made the grade after his opponent Mustafa Ghouse retired hurt.
English qualfier Daniel Kiernan and Prima Simpatiaji of Indonesia accounted for their scalps in the ITF Satellite tournament.
The Indian duo went down to top seeds Murad Inoyatov and Alexey Kedriouk 6-4, 6-2
Commitments in Italy forced the defending champion to skip the ITF women's championship.
However, second seeded Sai Jayalakshmi failed to make it in the ITF Futures tournament.
The German won the Delhi leg of the ITF Futures tournament to pick his fifth career title.
Eighth seed Vijay Kannan however failed to advance, losing to Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan, in the ITF Futures tournament.
The third seeded Pakistani upset the former India Davis Cupper and winner of the second leg in the ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
