Hull City and Swansea City earned valuable victories in their battle for Premier League survival but Middlesbrough slid further towards the drop after a 4-0 hammering at Bournemouth.
Croatian Ivan Ljubicic grabbed the last ticket to the eight-strong Masters Cup on Friday.
French Open champion Gaston Gaudio overcame a partisan crowd as he beat Chile's Fernando Gonzalez to win the BellSouth Open ATP tournament on Sunday.
They were beaten 6-2 4-6 2-6 by the Argentinean pair of Juan Ignacio Chela and Gaston Gaudio.
The French Open champion beat Gaston Gaudio 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Mercedes Cup
Gaudio has beaten Nadal three times out of four but the Spaniard won their most recent match in Monte Carlo this year.
Australia's Lleyton Hewitt dispatched Argentine Gaston Gaudio 6-2, 6-1 to clinch his place in the Masters Cup semi-finals.
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While Spanish sensation Rafael Nadal silenced a partisan crowd with a win over French number one Sebastien Grosjean
Argentine Gaston Gaudio made a comfortable start to his French Open title defence by beating Frenchman Julien Benneteau 7-5, 6-0, 6-1 on Monday.
Tommy Haas and Alexander Waske rallied the Germans to a 2-1 win over favourites Argentina.
But fellow Argentines Gaston Gaudio and the indefatigable Guillermo Coria won in straight sets as did Russian Marat Safin
It was Paes's fourth title this year, having won in Halle, Gastaad and Canada.
IMAGES from Day 8 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, on Sunday.
Last year's winner Carlos Moya was beaten 6-4, 7-6 by local wildcard Potito Starace.
The French Open champion overcame a mid-match slump to defeat Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-1, 2-6, 6-1 in the final.
Gaudio beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in a three set semi-final at the Estoril Open while Robredo advanced after Carlos Moya retired.
The former French Open champion rolled back the years as he dumped fifth seed Nicolas Massu out of the Estoril Open on Wednesday.
French Open champion Gaston Gaudio said Spanish teenager Rafael Nadal is the biggest threat to his Roland Garros crown.
The Spaniard's revival continued with an enthralling 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Argentine Gaston Gaudio to earn a place in the semis of the Barcelona Open.
The top seed was dumped out of the Barcelona Open by Argentine Jose Acasuso in straight sets.
Lionel Messi's triumphant Argentina comeback has been tempered by a hint he may not be fit to play in Tuesday's World Cup qualifier in Venezuela. Messi, who had gone back on his decision to quit the team following their Copa America final defeat in June, scored the only goal in a 1-0 home win over Uruguay on Thursday that sent Argentina to the top of the South American group. However, the Argentina captain said he had a groin pain and had to think about his fitness at the start of a busy season for his national side and his club Barcelona.
Gaston Gaudio beat Alberto Martin in straight sets to set up an all-Argentine final against wildcard Mariano Puerta in the Buenos Aires Open.
The third seeded pair registered a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win against Karsten Braasch of Germany and Sargis Sargsian of Armenia.
David Nalbandian and Gaston Gaudio must oust Russians Marat Safin and Igor Andreev in the fourth round for Argentina to have four men in the quarter-finals.
The world number one made a winning return from injury with a ruthless victory in the Masters Cup.
The Indo-Belarussian pair beat the Argentine duo of Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriguez to keep their hopes of qualifying for the semis of the ATP Masters.
The forward was again the stand-out Brazil player and he coolly side-footed home his 60th international goal in the 76th minute after Diego Laxalt brought down Danilo, although Uruguay claimed there was a handball in the build-up.
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