Champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic lost all hope of defending their ATP World Tour Finals doubles title on Tuesday when they suffered their second successive round-robin defeat at the O2 Arena.
Pakistan tennis ace Aisam Qureshi and James Cerritani of the United States stormed into the quarter-finals of the Basel Open on Tuesday after a straight sets victory overt world No 1 Roger Federer and his Swiss compatriot Marco Chiudinelli.
Facts and figures from the men's competition at the French Open, which begins from May 25.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles' six-match winning streak ended with their semi-final loss at the ATP Cincinnati Masters event at the hands of Wimbledon champions Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic. The fourth-seed Indo-Bahamian pair lost 4-6, 3-6 to the second seeded Canadian-Serbian combination in a little over an hour match of the US$3 million hard court event.
Indian challenge ended at the ATP Paris Masters when Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edourad Roger-Vasselin lost their quarter-final against Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.
Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis advanced to the second round of the Wimbledon Championships, defeating the duo of Saisai Zheng and Zarina Diyas in the opening round on Wednesday night. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated the Chinese-Kazakh team 6-2, 6-2.
Leander Paes and Lucas Dlouhy entered the final of the men's doubles at the French Open after a thrilling victory over top seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic in the semi-finals on Thursday. The Indo-Czech pair needed two tie-breakers to quell the challenge of the Canadian-Serbian duo and emerge 7-6(4), 7-6(5) winners, and set up a meeting with South Africa's Wesley Moodie and Belgium's Dick Norman in the final.
Leander Paes kept the Indian challenge alive at the French Open. Partnering Lukas Dlouhy, he advanced to the men's doubles semi-finals on Monday after a thwarting a late challenge from fifth seeds Bruno Soares of Brazil and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe. The Indo-Czech duo won 6-2, 7-6(5) to set up a meeting with either top seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada/Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia or Russians Igor Kunitsyn/Dmitry Tursunov in the semi-finals.
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Canada named rising star and world number 69 Denis Shapovalov in its squad to take on India in the upcoming Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie, scheduled in Edmonton from September 15.
Argentina's first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in the presidential vote.
Americans Bob and Mike Bryan beat Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram 7-6, 6-3 on Sunday to win the doubles title at the ATP World Tour Finals and regain the end-of-season number one ranking.
The sixth seeds beat Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and Nicolas Kiefer of Germany 6-3, 6-4 in their second round match at the Masters Series. Leander Paes and his Australian partner Paul Hanley, seeded eighth, will take on Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia in the quarter-final on Tuesday.
Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna became the first South American pair to win a Grand Slam men's doubles title by winning the French Open.
India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna notched up contrasting victories in their respective doubles matches to reach the round of 16 at the US Open in New York on Saturday.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas stormed into the final of the $1,401,000 ATP Dubai Tennis Championships with a straight set thrashing of second seeds Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle. Bhupathi and Knowles, seeded fourth, scripted a resounding 6-2, 6-0 victory over the Swedish-Austrian combination and will now face third-seeded Czech pair of Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner.
Capping off a great day for India, Sania Mirza advanced to the third round of both the women's and mixed doubles events, while Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja also won their respective mixed doubles matches at the Wimbledon in London.
The Indo-Czech pair beat second seeds Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett in a grueling semi-final at the Dubai Open.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi could not recreate their old chemistry and crashed out of the Indianapolis tennis championship with a first round defeat. The 'Indian Express' pair failed to hold their nerve in the match tie-break and went down to the Canadian duo of Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer 4-6, 6-3, 10-12 in one hour and 25 minutes.
The ninth seeded Indo-Czech pair lost 6-7(4), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-8 to the second seeded Canadian-Serb duo, which will play Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe in Saturday's men's doubles final at Wimbledon. The eighth seeds upset top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (11-9) in the first semi-final, which was interrupted by rain, on Thursday.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were down a set at 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1, 3-3 as they battled it out in fading light against Canada's Daniel Nestor and Serb Nenad Zimonjic for a place in the final of the men's doubles at Wimbledon on Thursday night.
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi rallied to beat the Canadian duo of Aleksandra Wozniak and Daniel Nestor and seal a semi-final berth in the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Wednesday. The unseeded Indian pair overcame a first-set lapse to carve out a 3-6, 6-4, 10-5 win in one hour and 15 minutes.
Leander Paes and Paul Hanley of Australia were ousted in the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the Pacific Life Open on Tuesday. The eighth seeded Paes and Hanley lost 2-6, 1-6 to third seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia.
Cavani, 31, scored two goals in the Round of 16 win over Portugal, then limped off with a calf injury and has been fighting to get fit in time for the showdown in Nizhny Novgorod.
They shocked seventh seeds Elena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor in straight sets to advance to the second round of the US Open.
Leander Paes and his Spanish partner Tommy Robredo scored a straight set victory over Ivan Ljubicic and R Soderling to storm into the doubles semi-finals of the Euro 2,270,000 Hamburg ATP Masters Series on Friday. The unseeded Indo-Spanish pair won 6-2, 7-6 (3) to set up a semi-final clash with the second seeded duo of Canadian D Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia, who downed fifth seeded combine of S Aspelin (Sweden) and James Knowles (Austria) 6-2 5-7, 10-8.
Mahesh Bhupathi Radek Stepanek advanced to the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the French Open beating second seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi.
Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi entered the final of the men's doubles event of Sydney International tennis with a comfortable straight-set win over Lukas Rosol and Joao Sousa in Sydney.
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis eased into the mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals of the Wimbledon championships but it was curtains for Rohan Bopanna and his Spanish partner Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.
The Indo-Belarussian pair will play Wayne Black and Kevin Ulyett in the penultimate round of the BNP Paribas ATP Masters tournament.
They beat sixth seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Russian Elena Likhovsteva to win the mixed doubles title.
The Indian ace and his partner Samantha Stosur lost in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles.
The fourth seeded Indo-Czech pair was beaten by second seeds Mark Knowels of Bahamas and Daniel Nestor of Canada in the Medibank International Open.
The third seeded Indo-Czech pair beat the Belgian pair of Christophe Rochus and Kristof Vliegen to make the grade.
Swede Jonas Bjorkman and his Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi won the Masters Cup doubles title with a 6-2 6-4 victory over on Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor on Sunday.
Somdev Devvarman put up a strong fight before going down to world No 31 Fernando Verdasco, while Mahesh Bhupathi lost in the first round at the ATP China Open, in Beijing, on Thursday.
16-year-old Mexican Carlos Vela is set to join Arsenal, his present team Guadalajara informed
Video Assistant Referees (VARs) will be making their debut at the World Cup in Russia this month but the technology will not be perfect, FIFA's director of refereeing, Massimo Busacca, warned on Tuesday.
