The Indo-Czech duo was beaten by fifth seeds Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in the second round of the Barcelona Open.
Andy Murray feels he let playing partner Laura Robson down by not delivering victory for Britain over Spain in the Hopman Cup final on Saturday.
Spain eased past Australia to book their place in the final of the Hopman Cup on Thursday, dashing any hopes the hosts had of advancing with an emphatic 3-0 whitewash.
Talismanic Indonesian shuttler Taufik Hidayat kept the spectators hooked on to their seats as he dispatched compatriot Tommy Sugiarto in straight games to storm into the men's singles final of the Yonex Sunrise Indian Open in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Rafael Nadal kept winning the hard way at the Paris Masters on Thursday, overcoming fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals. Nadal, who saved five match points before taming Nicolas Almagro in another all-Spanish battle on Wednesday, needed two hours and 20 minutes to shrug off a brave challenge from Robredo, seeded 14th in the indoor event.
Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan has pulled out of the first Test against Pakistan with a knee injury. The ace spinner, who holds the record for the most Test wickets, injured his patella tendon.
World number three and defending champion Roger Federer suffered a surprise defeat in the second round of the Shangahi Masters on Tuesday, losing 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-3 to Spain's Albert Ramos-Vinolas.
Tommy Robredo and Feliciano Lopez upset Israeli doubles specialists Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 to put champions Spain through to their fifth Davis Cup final in 10 years.
Sindhu, who had finished runner-up at the last edition in Dubai, dished out a superb game, mixing with patience with aggression, to edging the Japanese 24-22, 21-15.
Federer had no regrets about missing the French Open to focus on Wimbledon but said it was a move he was unlikely to repeat.
Rafael Nadal's unprecedented 10th French Open title on Sunday drew praise from across the tennis and sporting community: Here is a selection of what was said:
Sam Querrey reached his third consecutive ATP final by upsetting top-seeded German Tommy Haas 6-3 7-5 at the LA Open on Saturday.
The pairings were announced at Thursday's opening ceremony in bright, late afternoon sunshine at the course just outside Paris as France proudly hosts the event for the first time.
The Frenchman, seeded five, had no answer to left-hander Muller's swinging serve as he bowed out 6-4, 6-4.
Roger Federer is one match away from a record 15th Grand Slam title after easily beating Germany's Tommy Haas in the semi-finals.
Germany's Tommy Haas reached his first Wimbledon semi-final at the age of 31 on Wednesday, outclassing a tentative Novak Djokovic 7-5, 7-6, 4-6, 6-3.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Wednesday
Tommy Haas won his first title in more than two years when he beat world number four Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-7 6-1 in the Halle tournament final on Sunday. Haas, a former world number two who had not won a title since Memphis in 2007 after being plagued by a shoulder injury, was the more consistent in a baseline encounter that lasted two hours 12 minutes.
Novak Djokovic had to work hard against Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus to reach the Halle tournament final with a 7-6, 6-4 win on Saturday. The Serbian world number four will play Germany's Tommy Haas, who earlier beat Philipp Kohlschreiber in three sets.
World number four Novak Djokovic eased past Austrian Juergen Melzer 6-1, 6-4 at the Halle tournamenton Friday to set up a semi-final clash with Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus.
Germany's Tommy Haas beat world number nine Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 7-6 on Wednesday to book his spot in the grasscourt Halle tournament quarter-finals.
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi moved through to the Australian Open mixed doubles final after a comfortable 6-4, 6-1 win over the Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova and Lukas Dlouhy in Melbourne on Friday.
India's newest airline-Vistara is bullish on growth prospects.
Tommy Robredo was the driving force as Spain came from behind to beat Britain 2-1 on Saturday to win the Hopman Cup for a third time.
World number one Rafael Nadal was handed a walkover into the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open on Thursday when his third-round opponent Philipp Kohlschreiber was forced out of the claycourt event with a left leg injury. Nadal was joined in the last eight by world number two Roger Federer, a 6-2, 6-4 winner over James Blake, and Andy Murray, who coped well with blustery conditions in the Magic Box stadium to dispatch Spanish 16th seed Tommy Robredo 7-5, 6-1.
Tommy Robredo proved size is not everything in tennis, cutting towering American John Isner down to size to give Spain a 3-0 victory in their opening Hopman Cup encounter on Sunday.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic breezed past misfiring Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-1, 6-1 to reach the Rome Masters quarter-finals on Thursday. World number two Roger Federer had to work only slightly harder to progress with a 6-4, 6-1 win over 16th seed Radek Stepanek and avenge the quarter-final defeat he suffered against the Czech here last year.
More shocking than his departure was the manner of the 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 7-6,(3) loss to the Australian, with Federer simply wilting in the suffocating humidity and exiting a Grand Slam before the quarter-finals for just the fifth time since 2004.
Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy entered the quarterfinals of the euro 2,750,000 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in Monaco, defeating unseeded Spaniard duo of Albert Montanes and Tommy Robredo in a match tie-breaker.
Six-time national rally champion Naren Kumar will debut for an Indian team, 'Team Sidvin India', in the 2008 FIA World Rally Championship, in the Production Class in June, in Greece.
World number one Rafael Nadal continued his smooth progress at the ATP event in Indian Wells on Tuesday, easing past Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-3, 6-3 to reach the fourth round. Champion Novak Djokovic though survived a testing second set to beat German Tommy Haas 6-2, 7-6.
At a time when priapic sex comedies are ruling the roost in Bollywood, Udta Punjab is nothing less than a fresh blast of oxygen!
Spain's Tommy Robredo won his second successive tournament on Sunday when he beat Argentina's Juan Monaco 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 in the final of the Buenos Aires Open.
They will take on Nathalie Dechy of France and Andy Ram of Israel, who shocked the seventh seeded Spanish combination of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Tommy Robredo 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 in the other semi-final.
World number one Rafael Nadal gave another powerful statement of his Australian Open intentions by crushing Croatia's Roko Karanusic 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round on Thursday. Andy Murray maintained his unbeaten run this year when he crushed Spain's Marcel Granollers 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.
Andy Roddick marched into the quarter-finals of the US Open with an easy 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Chilean 11th seed Fernando Gonzalez.
Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh's fourth professional bout was on Tuesday rescheduled from February 13 to March 12.
Denmark's Mathias Boe is extremely annoyed. And in his anger this shuttler from Denmark has vowed to not visit India after appearing in Thomas Cup next year.
Three-time champion Andy Roddick defeated bullet-serving Ivo Karlovic 7-6, 7-6 on Friday to book a spot in the semi-finals of the Washington Classic. Roddick won the tiebreakers 7-4 and 7-5 to set up an all-American affair with John Isner, who beat Czech Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-7, 6-2 at the $1.4 million hardcourt event.
Big-serving American Sam Querrey shrugged off a nervous second set to clinch his second ATP title with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Australian qualifier Carsten Ball at the LA Open on Sunday.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances