The former Italian Davis Cup player says Indian kids are doing everything wrong to be sportspersons
Harsh Mankad staged a strong recovery after losing the first set to beat up-and-coming Navdeep Singh and enter the quarter-finals in the US $10,000 ITF Futures tournament in Mumbai on Wednesday. Mankad used his experience and Navdeep's restricted movement to clinch the second round match 6-7, 7-5, 6-2 in three hours and 16 minutes.
Croatia's Ivan Ljubicic was awarded the third wildcard at the Chennai Open.
The 19-year old, after beating some top players in the ABN Amro event last week, is hopeful of making it to India's Davis Cup squad next year.
Karan Rastogi beat Harsh Mankad 7-6 (4), 6-2 in the ABN Amro challenger final
Medvedev tames claycourt demons to advance in Madrid.
The second seeds lost to the French pair of Fabrice Santoro and Michael Llodra in the quarter-final of the men's doubles.
Nagal said he would look to play more ATP Tour events this year but for that he would have to first improve his rankings.
Leander Paes too has been offered a wild card but not yet confirmed for the January 5 to 11 event in Chennai.
World number one Novak Djokovic continued his rich vein of form as he brushed aside French opponent Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets to clinch the Shanghai Masters title on Sunday.
The duo would now take on top seeds Knowles and Nestor in the Pacific Life tennis championship.
The 18 year old captured his second ATP Tour title in as many weeks.
In the email, the WTA said it wanted to "clear up false and misleading information" about the conditions players would face at the Australian Open.
"People talk about power, power, power, but there's still more to our game," said the American.
John Tomic, father and coach of Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic, will be barred from the Australian Open as he continues his suspension from the ATP tour for assaulting his son's former training partner.
The American was beaten by world number 103 Ivo Karlovic of Croatia in the second round.
The world number one was virtually guaranteed a semi-final berth before walking on court at the O2 Arena, but made doubly sure by cruising past Tomas Berdych in little more than an hour.
The 34-year-old American is only the sixth player since men's tennis turned professional in 1968 to achieve the feat.
World number one Novak Djokovic blasted past qualifier Alexei Popyrin 6-4, 6-2 to reach the second round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships in Tokyo.
World number one Novak Djokovic shook off an eye infection to beat Kazakhstan's Aleksandr Nedovyesov 6-1 6-2 6-3 in front of a passionate home crowd to give Serbia a 1-0 lead against Kazakhstan in their Davis Cup first-round tie on Friday. Djokovic, who was forced to retire with the problem from last week's Dubai Championships quarter-final against Spaniard Feliciano Lopez, showed no sign of problems as he brushed aside his opponent in the acoustic Pionir Arena. The 28-year-old from Belgrade delighted the home fans, who enjoyed a rare opportunity to watch him live because there are no major tour events in Serbia, with a barrage of sizzling winners, including some spectacular net points.
Germany has not produced a Grand Slam winner in the men's singles since Boris Becker won the Australian Open in 1996.
Sumit Nagal was blown away by world number two Daniil Medvedev's thunderous strokes and serves in the singles second round as India's tennis challenge all but ended at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
The ITF has made a range of learning resources on its academy platform available for free during the shutdown while the ATP Tour announced an initiative this week that will give fans the chance to bid for sessions with top coaches. Funds raised from the sessions will go to the tour's Coaches Committee to support its members.
The defending champion beat Russian Igor Andreev in straight sets at the Tata Open tennis championship.
Prakash Amritraj will face Harsh Mankad in the first round of the ATP Tour Tata Open at Chennai.
The Asian number one junior player benefitted from Leander Paes's injury who withdrew from the event.
'Putting match-ups in tennis like Serena Williams and Roger Federer on the same court, it is so brilliant for our sport'
The pairs of Mahesh Bhupathi/Rohan Bopanna and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya/Vinod Sridhar easily won their semi-final matches at the Afro-Asian Games.
Harsh Mankad, the fifth seed defeated Seung Hoon Ho of Korea 6-1, 6-2.
Former world number one Andy Murray has undergone a hip resurfacing surgery in London, the 31-year-old Scot said.
As Leander Paes is down with flu, the pair was forced to pull out from the Long Island event.\n\n
The top seeds will take on seventh seeds Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley of Australia.
The extended lockdown of tennis will help Andy Murray's return from injury but it will be "a big ask" for him to add to his three Grand Slam titles, according to former British number one Greg Rusedski. Murray underwent hip re-surfacing surgery at the start of 2019 and resumed playing doubles in June before returning to singles action in August.
The second seed's career has been on an upward swing ever since he finished as the losing finalist in Chennai last year.
His dream of being inside the global top-100 has been realised but Sumit Nagal is nowhere close to being a content man as the Indian tennis ace says he now faces the challenge of improving or holding on to his standing for direct entry into Grand Slams and the Paris Olympics.
