Second seed Denis Istomin, third seed Marcos Baghdatis, giant-killer Oleksandr Dolgopolav Jr. and unseeded Lukas Lacko entered the semi-finals of the men' singles at the $125,000 Tashkent ATP Challenger, being played at the Olympic Tennis Stadium.
World number one Rafael Nadal was handed a place in the last four of the Barcelona Open on Thursday after David Nalbandian was forced to withdraw from their quarter-final clash with a hip injury. The Spaniard earlier thrashed unseeded Belgian Christophe Rochus 6-2 6-0 and was due to play seventh-seeded Nalbandian in the last eight on Friday as he bids for a fifth straight title.
World number one Rafael Nadal began his campaign for a fifth successive Barcelona Open title with a comfortable 6-2 6-2 victory over Portuguese qualifier Frederico Gil on Wednesday.
Top seed Andy Roddick outslugged fellow American Sam Querrey 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to advance to the semi-finals of the Memphis Championships on Friday. In a battle between two booming servers, Roddick was broken just once while his opponent surrendered serve four times, which proved to be the difference. Roddick will now face Australian Lleyton Hewitt, who beat Belgian Christophe Rochus 6-2, 6-3 in their quarter-final match.
Roger Federer will begin his bid to equal Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam titles against Italian Andreas Seppi in the first round of the Australian Open next week. Top seed Rafael Nadal, who snapped Federer's record 237-week stint as world number one last August, will meet Belgium's Christophe Rochus after the draw was made at Melbourne Park on Friday.
The American slumped to a 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 defeat by Frenchman Fabrice Santoro in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix.
Prakash Amritraj entered the main draw of the US $416,000 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships at Newport, Rhode Island.
The third seeded Indo-Czech pair beat the Belgian pair of Christophe Rochus and Kristof Vliegen to make the grade.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Morocco's Younes El Aynaoui and Sultan Khalfan of the host country.
Russia's Marat Safin knocked out Swede Robin Soderling in a second-round match at the Paris Masters.
The top seeds beat the Belgian duo of Christophe Rochus and Tom Van Houdt to progress to the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open.
The top seed breezed to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Christophe Rochus in the final.
The Spaniard will meet Belgium's Christophe Rochus in the title match at the Valencia Open.
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