France's Richard Gasquet has been provisionally suspended from tennis after testing positive for cocaine, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Monday. Gasquet confirmed on Sunday he had failed the test at last month's Miami tournament but has denied any wrongdoing.
An angry Lleyton Hewitt labelled the ITF's actions a disgrace after the tennis governing body fined Australia $10,000 over their decision to boycott a Davis Cup zonal tie in India because of security concerns. Tennis Australia had asked the International Tennis Federation to move the May 8-10 Asia/Oceania tie out of the southern Indian city of Chennai but the request was rejected and the 28-times champions forfeited the contest.
Factbox on Italy's Jannik Sinner, who beat Germany's Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6(4), 6-3 in the Australian Open final
When contacted, AITA Secretary General Anil Dhupar said he does not have any objection to Bopanna playing with Balaji, ranked 84, at the Paris Olympics.
Novak Djokovic was seriously rattled early on by inspired American teenager Nishesh Basavareddy but rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory on Monday.
Former Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj outplayed Saketh Myneni in straight sets to lift the Men's singles title at the $ 15,000 Solaris ITF Future Tennis Championships in Pune on Saturday.
Five-times Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has criticised the International Tennis Federation (ITF) for not doing enough to make her aware that meldonium had been added to the list of banned substances last year.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) have rejected Pakistan's appeal against the awarding of their Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group II tie to New Zealand, the governing body said on Wednesday.
Briton Andy Murray and Germany's Angelique Kerber were named ITF World Champions on Tuesday, capping stellar years for the men's and women's world number ones. Murray, whose brother Jamie was named doubles World Champion along with Brazil's Bruno Soares, won Wimbledon in July before becoming the first player to win two Olympic singles gold medals when he retained his crown in Rio de Janeiro in August.
Meanwhile, fourth seed Divij Sharan pipped American George Barth 6-4, 6-4 to advance into the second round.
Caroline Wozniacki has become the first Danish player to win the International Tennis Federation's World Champion award, even though she has never won a Grand Slam. Spain's Rafael Nadal took the men's award for the second time after winning three of the year's four Grand Slam titles.
Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic took the men's prize for the fourth time, having won seven titles this season and the year-end top ranking for the third time in four years, while Serena Williams won the award for the fifth time in a career that has brought her 18 Grand Slam singles titles -- the most recent at this year's US Open.
Prakash Amritraj beat Karan Rastogi in the final to win the USD 10,000 ITF Futures men's tennis tournament.
It was a bad day for Indians at the $ 10,000 ITF men's event as all of them bowed out of the singles event after losing their second round matches.
Davis Cup: Ramkumar to lead Indian challenge against Pakistan on grass courts
Karan Rastogi went down to Todor Enev 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the semifinals of the ITF Futures.
AITA President Anil Jain, who was accused of using his position for personal gains, avoided facing a no-confidence motion from the state associations only after he agreed to step aside.
Two tennis umpires were banned, one for life, last year for breaches of the sport's code of conduct for officials, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Tuesday. Four other umpires are under investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), the London-based world ruling body for the sport said in a statement. In January, tennis was rocked by a report by the BBC and online BuzzFeed News that said 16 players who have been ranked in the top 50 had been repeatedly flagged to the TIU over suspicions they had thrown matches in the past decade. Tennis authorities rejected allegations that evidence of match-fixing had been suppressed or had not been properly investigated.
The Davis Cup final between Belgium and Britain will go ahead despite Brussels being placed on maximum alert over the threat of an imminent attack, local organisers and the International Tennis Federation said on Monday.
Top seed Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei beat second seed Montinee Tangphong of Thailand 6-2, 6-3.
The second seeded Irishman beat Mohammad Salifu of Ghana in a keen final.
The top seed halted eighth seed Sai Jayalakshmi's winning run to clinch the single's title in the $10,000 ITF women's tennis tournament.
The fourth seed Thai beat top seed Isha Lakhani 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the ITF women's tennis tournament.
The ITF tribunal has rejected AITA's contention that its Davis Cup team could face security concerns during the World Group I Play-off tie in Islamabad, paving the way for an Indian tennis team's visit to Pakistan for the first time in 60 years.
Karan Rastogi booked a berth in the semi-finals of the US $15,000 ITF tournament in Meshref, Kuwait, on Thursday after his opponent, Navdeep Singh, retired midway through the quarter-final clash. Fifth-seeded Rastogi was leading 6-2, 4-2 when his unseeded compatriot decided to concede the match.
Karan Rastogi failed to put up a fight against top seed Matwe Middelkoop as he lost his quarterfinal encounter of the $ 15,000 ITF men's event at Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in straight sets, on Friday.
The Indian tennis ace won the US $10,000 Regione House ITF clay tournament in Italy beating Mihalache Magda of Romania 6-3, 6-4 in the final.
The unseeded Indian pair of Harsh Mankad and Vishal Uppal won the doubles title.
A report in a French newspaper earlier this week said leading tennis and soccer players were part of an investigation named Operation Puerto.
Wild card Harsh Mankad won the US $10,000 ITF singles event in Chandigarh after his opponent in the final, Rohan Bopanna, pulled out due to a knee injury. The victory gave Mankad his second crown, having won the doubles title along with Rupesh Roy at the CLTA Complex on Friday.
Saketh Myneni and Prakash Amritraj kept the Indian flag flying by reaching the men's singles semi-finals in the US $15,000 ITF men's Future Tennis tournament, in Pune, on Thursday. Fourth seed Myneni accounted for fifth seed, National champion Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 7-6(5), 6-2 in 86 minutes while giant-killer and comeback man Amritraj upset third seed Liang-Chi Huang of Taipei 7-6(4) 6-1 in 78 minutes in the quarter-finals.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran marched into the quarterfinals of the $ 15,000 ITF tournament, outplaying compatriot Ronak Manuja even as reigning national grass court champion Vishnu Vardhan made exit after losing his second round match in New Delhi on Wednesday.
India's Isha Lakhani bowed out in the first round of the $ 25,000 Greater Noida ITF women's circuit tournament in Noida on Monday.
Sunitha Rao quelled the challenge of American Gail Brodsky in straights sets to storm into the quarter-finals of the US $50,000 ITF women's hardcourt tennis tournament in Boston. The fifth seeded Indian won the second round match 6-3, 7-5.
Amid increasing speculation surrounding his participation at the Rio Olympics, the Spanish Olympic Committee chief has confirmed that 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal will represent his nation at the global spectacle.
The Indian challenge ended in the $ 15000 ITF Futures men's singles event with the straight sets defeat of unseeded Rohan Gajjar in a semifinal in New Delhi on Friday.
Indian youngsters Vivek Shokeen and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya advanced to the second round of the ITF event in Lahore.
A rusty Sunitha Rao ovecame a jittery start while Isha Lakhani and Ankita Bhambri benefitted from the retirement of their opponents to advance to the second round of the $ 50,000 ITF women's tennis event in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Qualifier Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan shocked third seeded Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan in the final of the US $15,000 Solaris Futures event to win his maiden ITF men's singles title in Pune on Saturday. The 22-year-old Jeevan, playing just his third professional tennis tournament, won 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 28 minutes.
The International Tennis Federation will consider an appeal from India seeking a heavier penalty on Australia for forfeiting last month's Davis Cup tie in Chennai due to security concerns. The ITF said on Friday it had received an appeal from the All India Tennis Association which would be discussed at a board meeting on July 15.
