The WTA Bangalore Open is now a Tier II event and will offer the highest prize money for a tennis event in India.
With British tennis enduring a terrible slump that shows no sign of ending, the sport's officials have turned to him for inspiration.
Kannamwar has also officiated as a chair umpire in the Australian, US, French Open and the Olympic Games.
Top seed Mara Santangelo of Italy, ranked 36, is potentially the only player who can stop the Indian ace from winning the Bangalore Open.
He will also officiate at Wimbledon along with woman umpire Payal Jain and Ritu Sharma.
India's number one singles player will open the country's campaign against Wisnu Adi Nugroho in the Asia/Oceania Group I first round relegation play-off against Indonesia, beginning in Bangalore on Friday. No 2 Yuki Bhambri will lock horns with Indonesia No 1 Christopher Rungkat in the second singles.
SPS Rathore's counsel on Wednesday told a court in Chandigarh hearing his plea challenging his conviction in the Ruchika molestation case that Aradhana, the prime witness in the case, was planted against the former Haryana director general of police due to rivalry between two lawn tennis associations of Panchkula.
Indian Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj beat Jasper Smit of The Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in the quarterfinal.
The tournament will see the Williams sisters appearing together for the first time outside the Grand Slams.
Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri posted straight-set wins in their respective reverse singles as India completed a 5-0 whitewash of Indonesia in the Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup relegation play-off tie, in Bangalore on Sunday.
Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri scored straight-set victories to put India 2-0 ahead in the Asia-Oceanic Davis Cup Group I first-round relegation play-off tie against Indonesia in Bangalore on Friday. Somdev defeated Wisnu Adi Nugroho 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 before Yuki saw off Christopher Rungkat 6-3, 6-2, 6-3, at the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association stadium.
Swiss champion Patty Schnyder has confirmed her participation in the Bangalore Open this year.
Former Wimbledon champion, Goran Ivanisevic, former Britain No 1, Tim Henman and Dan Bloxham, Head Coach at The All England Lawn tennis Club, Wimbledon, mentored a group of 25 budding tennis talents at a coaching camp in New Delhi on Thursday.
However, his compatriots Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar and Rohan Bopanna were eliminated from the ITF Futures Tennis Championship.
Andy Murray has withdrawn from Britain's Davis Cup match against Ukraine this weekend after failing to recover from a virus, officials said on Monday.
The US-based Indian demolished national hardcourt champion Vinod Sridhar in the ITF Satellite tournament
The fifth seed Swiss, Ivo Heuberger, defeated Thailand's Danai Udomchoke 6-2, 6-3 to win the singles crown
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten by Simon Greul of Germany in the ITF Futures tournament.
World number four Andy Murray has withdrawn from Britain's Davis Cup tie against Lithuania in March and will in future discuss his participation with the Lawn Tennis Association before every match.
The second seeds beat the Russia's Elena Vesnina and Anastassia Rodionova in the final of the WTA Bangalore Open.
National hardcourt champion Vinod Sridhar, however, went down to second seed Dmitri Vlasov in the ITF Futures tournament.
Rohan Bopanna, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, Manoj Mahadevan and Vinod Sridhar made it to the second round in the Delhi leg of the tournament.\n\n
Promising Indian tennis ace Karan Rastogi says though he didn't play a game in the Davis Cup match against New Zealand, all the same it was a great learning experience.
Australia's John Blom is the neutral umpire and India's Punit Gupta the chair umpire for the April 7-9 Davis Cup zonal play-off encounter.
In the semi-finals of the ITF tournament, unseeded Ashutosh beat Chinese Davis Cupper Yu Jr Wang, while Sun accounted for top seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan.
'I LOVE YOU, Roger. Thank you for everything you've done in tennis and with myself. Tennis world will never be the same without you.'
Andy Murray, who put Britain on top of the tennis world with victory in the Davis Cup at the weekend, says he has given up talking to the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) about the future of the game back home as it is a waste of time.
Brad Gilbert has agreed to coach Andy Murray and assist the LTA with its performance programmes.
The eighth seed was beaten by qualifier Punam Reddy in the ITF tournament.
The Italian staged a remarkable recovery to beat Jelena Kostanic of Croatia and capture her maiden WTA singles title.
All the six aspirants playing in the qualifying rounds of the Bangalore Open were eliminated.
Prakash Amritraj bagged his third successive title, winning the ITF Masters crown.
The victory earned Bopanna a meeting with Russia's Dmitri Vlasov in the f inal of the ITF Futures tournament.
Former British No 1 Elena Baltacha has been diagnosed with liver cancer, the Scot said on Friday.
The British number one ended association with Brad Gilbert after 17 months.
Rohan Bopanna has set his sight on the Paris Olympics 2024 starting July 26 after winning his maiden men's doubles grand slam.
The Wimbledon Championships will become a 14-day tournament from 2022, with matches set to be played on Middle Sunday, traditionally a day off at the grasscourt Grand Slam.
India will host its first WTA tournament in five years when the city of Mumbai stages a $ 125,000 event in November, giving home players an opportunity to compete with the world's top-50.
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