Brad Gilbert has agreed to coach Andy Murray and assist the LTA with its performance programmes.
The total prize money for the year's final Grand Slam will be $18.5 million
Leander Paes will lead the Indian team for the Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan starting on April 29.
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.
Bhambri, ranked 200th, recovered from a set down and registered what turned to be an emphatic 6-7, 6-3, 6-1 win over Pella in a match that lasted for two hours and 10 minutes.
Sania jumped 35 places to 99 in the latest world rankings.
The Italian staged a remarkable recovery to beat Jelena Kostanic of Croatia and capture her maiden WTA singles title.
Former World No 1 Azarenka, the winner of two Australian Open titles and twice a US Open runner-up, withdrew from last year's tournament at Flushing Meadows because of a child custody battle.
All the six aspirants playing in the qualifying rounds of the Bangalore Open were eliminated.
The British number one ended association with Brad Gilbert after 17 months.
The former US Open champion has withdrawn from this year's tournament because of a lingering wrist injury.
Harsh Mankad, included as a reserve player in the squad, had earlier demanded a guarantee of him playing in the tie.
Argentina's World Cup winning captain Lionel Messi was named the Laureus Sportsman of the Year, while sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bagged the top women's honour.
If Williams is indeed 20 weeks into her term, that would mean she was approximately two months pregnant when she captured her record 23rd Grand Slam tournament singles title at the Australian Open in January.
The two are part of a five-member boys and girls' team which embarks on a six-week tour of Europe on Friday.
The AITA selection committee, on Tuesday, decided to keep veteran Leander Paes in the five-member playing squad for the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Croatia, making Divij Sharan the reserve member.
Earlier, she had filed a complaint in a Gurugram court against M/S Realtech Development and Infrastructure (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd, other developers, Sharapova and Schumacher for duping her of around Rs 80 lakh.
47-year-old Martina Navratilova and Lisa Raymond were also picked in the U.S. team for their Fed Cup first-round tie against Slovenia.
Serena Williams was unseeded at the French Open last month due to an extended absence for the birth of her first child but she is not likely to face the same problem at the US Open.
The retired American ace said women were willing to play five-set matches but used the entertainment industry to highlight her stance that athletes will get paid the same regardless of the duration of the matches.
The appointment was made after non-playing captain Ramesh Krishnan asked not to consider him for the post in 2004.\n
American Sofia Kenin counter-punched her way back from a set down against Garbine Muguruza to win her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 win in Melbourne on Saturday.
The eighth seed was beaten by qualifier Punam Reddy in the ITF tournament.
As many as 72 players have been confined to their hotel rooms for two weeks upon arrival and unable to train for the Feb. 8-21 event after passengers on three charter flights tested positive.
Prakash Amritraj bagged his third successive title, winning the ITF Masters crown.
Chatwinder Singh, Tushar Liberhan and Divij Sharan will get Rs 25,000 each for travel expenses.
The Swedish chair umpire who gave a pep talk to Australian Nick Kyrgios during a US Open match this year has been suspended without pay for two weeks, the ATP Tour said on Tuesday.
The victory earned Bopanna a meeting with Russia's Dmitri Vlasov in the f inal of the ITF Futures tournament.
It has sought the ITF's approval to field the US-born Indian.
Multiple media reports on Monday said the USTA would confirm the Grand Slam tournament would go ahead without fans despite New York City still recording hundreds of new COVID-19 cases every day.
Halep withdraws from Western & Southern Open with injury.
'Drawing Canada is golden chance for India to get into World Group'
Will Smith, who had once portrayed the irreverent Muhammad Ali with such aplomb, brings the character of Richard Williams alive. The accent, the dialect, the body-language and the ever-present chip on the shoulder, observes Deepti Patwardhan.
Ram Kumar Ramanathan will take on Seong-Chan Hong, ranked more than 200 places below him, in the first singles match of the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania group-I tie between India and South Korea starting in Chandigarh on Friday.
The April 4-6 match will be held at the lush green grass courts of the Calcutta South Club.
Former world number one Garbine Muguruza was beaten 7-5, 6-4 by Aryna Sabalenka in the China Open second round on Tuesday while an ailing Jelena Ostapenko lost 6-0, 6-0 to Wang Qiang.
'We had just kept their recognition in abeyance, pending a verification with regards to new AITA President'
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