Peter Luczak and Anastasia Rodionova will spearhead Australia's challenge at the tennis event of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in Delhi as Tennis Australia on Wednesday named its squad, sans Lleyton Hewitt and Samatha Stosur.
Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza breezed into the quarter-finals after easy victories but Rohan Bopanna bowed out of the men's singles competition at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Up against second seed and world number 133 Australian Peter Luczak, Bopanna went down fighting 2-6, 6-7(5) in 97 minutes in the second round, at the R K Khanna Tennis stadium.
Two-time US Open champion Pat Rafter is to present Tennis Australia with plans to stop the national men's game from sliding into oblivion.
The former Wimbledon and US Open runner-up was given a free-ride into the first Grand Slam of the year.
Top seed Indian men's doubles pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have been handed out an easy draw but Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman were not as lucky and the duo will have to toil hard when the Commonwealth Games gets underway on Sunday.
Roger Federer did little to dampen the soaring temperatures at the French Open with a red-hot display of shot making that brought the year's second Grand Slam bursting into life on Monday.
The former world number one was included in a four-man team along with Chris Guccione, Paul Hanley and Peter Luczak.
Rohan Bopanna and his partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi have advanced to the semi-finals of the ATP Tour event in Casablanca, Morocco after scoring an easy straight-set win over Simon Greul and Peter Luczak.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi advanced to the semi-finals of the ATP Tour event in Casablanca, Morocco, after a straight sets win over Simon Greul and Peter Luczak. The Indo-Pak pair beat the German-Australian pair 6-3, 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the euro 450,000 clay-court tournament.
World number one Roger Federer will start his bid for a 16th grand slam title against 36th-ranked Russian Igor Andreev in the first round of the Australian Open next week.
The 28-year-old hasn't recovered from an ankle tendon injury and will miss the Davis Cup quarter-final against Argentina.
The seventh seeds beat Australia's Peter Luczak and Shannon Nettle in the first round of the Australian Open men's doubles.
The United States booked their place in the Hopman Cup final by moving into an unassailable 2-0 lead over Australia in their Group B match.
The Indian pair maintained their unbeaten run to tame Australia's Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak in the mixed doubles encounter to pull off their first win in group 'A' of the Hopman Cup in Perth on Wednesday.
Lleyton Hewitt was recalled to Australia's Davis Cup team to play Belarus in next week's quarter-final.
Carlos Moya enjoyed a straight-sets win over qualifier Peter Luczak in the first round of the $380,000 Buenos Aires Open.
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