Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis scored comfortable victories in the opening singles against Britain.
Sinner is most likely to upset the applecart after the Italian's run to the Canadian Open title this month
The Indian Aces began their 2016 IPTL campaign with an easy 30-17 win over hosts Japan Warriors at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, on Friday.
Former Wimbledon champion Pat Cash predicted Australian tennis would recover from its lean spell within the next four years following injuries and dips in form for Lleyton Hewitt and Mark Philippoussis.
Rafael Nadal's hopes of completing a rare calendar year Grand Slam ended on Thursday when the Spaniard pulled out of his highly-anticipated Wimbledon semi-final showdown against Australian Nick Kyrgios with an abdominal strain.
Mavericks won the men's doubles and men's legends singles rubber, but the Slammers clinched the women's singles, mixed doubles and men's singles to come out trumps.
The former world number one was included in a four-man team along with Chris Guccione, Paul Hanley and Peter Luczak.
Australia captain John Fitzgerald says Hewitt and Philippoussis are no guarantee that Australia will breeze through the Davis Cup match with an injury-racked British team.
Australia could be in trouble for failing to field appropriate players in their two dead Davis Cup semi-final singles rubbers against Argentina in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
The Swiss ace will play David Nalbandian in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.
The move is designed to favour 2002 Wimbledon champion Lleyton Hewitt and this year's runner-up Mark Philippoussis.
Hyderabad Aces dealt a big blow to Bangalore Raptors' chances of advancing to the final of the Champions Tennis League after the visitors registered a 25-22 win in a thrilling group match in Bengaluru.
Agassi remains top of the 12-month rankings with 4,090 points followed by Ferrero and Federer.
Federer hammered Wang Yeu-tzuoo of Taiwan while second seed Nadal crushed Mark Philippoussis in the first round at the US Open.
Rafael Nadal has a tough opener against Australia's Mark Philippoussis at the US Open.
Mark Philippoussis lost 6-4, 7-5 to Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee in the first round
Tennis coach Gavin Hopper was found guilty of charges relating to a teenage girl who attended a school where he taught.
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.
The Aussie ace feels his rapid slide down the world rankings could give Australia the advantage in the Davis Cup final against Spain.
The third seed Thai was two points away from defeat against close friend Lee Hyung-taik at the Japan Open.
The top seed overcame a bad start to beat Kenneth Carlsen in the Mercedes-Benz Cup.
Federer has become the first Swiss man to win a Grand Slam singles title.
The Argentine joined third seed Rainer Schuettler, fifth seed Mark Philippoussis and sixth seed Tim Henman as a first round loser.
Sweden won both the concluding reverse singles to emerge 4-1 winners in the first round of the Davis Cup.
In the semis, Hewitt beat Nicolas Kiefer while Ferreira dumped Mark Philippoussis.
Less than 24 hours after Federer won a men's singles Grand Slam title, the enormity of his achievement was slowly sinking in.
Manila Maverics wrapped up their International Premier Tennis League campaign in style, winning all five matches in their 30-15 victory over Singapore Slammers, in Dubai.
A look at the 10 landmark matches from the 20-times Grand Slam champion's career.
The world number one, pounded out of the fourth round of this year's tournament by big-serving Australian Mark Philippoussis.
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