Top seed Sania Mirza inched closer to her second consecutive ITF singles title, advancing to the semi-finals of the US $75,000 tournament in Vancouver but not before facing a spirited fight from unseeded Rebecca Marino. Sania had to dig deep into her reserves to edge past the local favourite 7-6(2), 6-7(3) 6-4 in the quarter-final of the hard-court tournament.
The International Tennis Federation has rejected an appeal by Pakistan to host its Davis Cup tie against Lebanon next year, the Pakistan Tennis Federation has said.
Unseeded Seo-Kyung Kang of Korea fashioned a shock 6-1, 6-0 victory over No 8 seed Chun-Yan He of China to clinch the title in the Mother's Recipe US $10,000 ITF Women's Futures Tennis Tournament, in Mumbai, on Saturday.
The 17-year-old easily beat Indian ace Rushmi Chakravarthy in the final of the women's TIF tournament.\n\n
American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan were named ITF men's doubles champions.
Melanie South of Great Britain overcame a strong challenge from Yang Chen of China before coasting to a 6-4, 6-4 victory to win the Women's Futures Tennis tournament.
The India Davis Cupper beat Jasper Smit of The Netherlands in the final.
The Pakistani won his third singles title in a row defeating top seed Harsh Mankad in straight sets.
The Indian challenge in the men's singles ended with the ouster of Punna Vishal.
Giant-killer Divij Sharan continued his fine form at Nigeria ITF event and the unseeded Indian accounted for third seed Andreas Haider-Maurer in straight sets to reach the final even as Isha Lakhani bowed out of the women's event after losing the semifinal tie.
Jannik Sinner won his maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open on Sunday.
The fifth seeded Bulgarian scored an upset straight-set victory over third seed Satoshi Iwabuchi of Japan in the final.
Three Indians, including top seed Rohan Bopanna, stormed into the singles semifinals of the $ 10,000 India F5 Futures ITF Men's Circuit being played at the CLTA Stadium in Chandigarh on Thursday.
The Indian ace rallied splendidly to beat Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan in the final.
Rohan Bopanna, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, Manoj Mahadevan and Vinod Sridhar made it to the second round in the Delhi leg of the tournament.\n\n
Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad set up a final clash against each other in the $ 10,000 ITF event after winning their respective singles semi-finals in Chandigarh on Friday.
The top seeded Indo-Pak duo rallied from a first set deficit to beat Asian Games bronze medallists Vishal Uppal and Mustafa Ghouse in the final.
The victory earned the 19-year old a berth in the second round of the ITF Futures tournament.
Unseeded Rohan Gajjar of India caused the first upset in the CCI-ITF US$15,000 men's Futures tennis tournament when he stunned fifth seed Gerald Melzer of Austria in the first round at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The second-seeded Indian Ashutosh Singh went down fighting against top seed Czech Adam Vejmelka 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6) in the final of the USD 10,000 grass court event in Lahore on Saturday.
Divij Sharan, Vivek Shokeen, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and National champion Ashutosh Singh advanced to the last eight stage in the US $10,000 grass court tournament.
Jeevan, 24, who came into the tournament ranked 400th in the world and soon after becoming the national men's singles champion, outlasted compatriot Purav Raja in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 in 90 minutes at the Cricket Club of India.
Former National champion Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan is going through a torrid time in Senegal as the airline on which he travelled there has misplaced his bag.
Prakash Amritraj and Saketh Myneni set up the men's singles title clash in the US $15,000 ITF Futures tournament after comfortable semi-final victories in Pune on Friday.
After mauling lower-ranked opponents all through the week, Sania Mirza lost the title clash of the Wrexham ITF event 2-6, 4-6 to local favourite Heather Watson on Sunday.
Sanam Singh and Vijayant Mailk raised hopes of an all-Indian final at the US $15,000 ITF men's singles Futures tournament in Toronto, Canada, after winning their respective quarter-finals. Second seed Sanam beat Canadia's Braydenx Schnur 7-5, 6-1 while fourth seed Vijayant got the better of eighth seed Fritz Wolmarans of South Africa 7-6(3), 6-2.
With the Australian Open currently on, defending champion Novak Djokovic has once again been dubbed as a favourite to retain the title, and former world No. 17 Bernard Tomic of Australia firmly believes there will be no one to challenge the great Serbian.
They won their semifinal matches in contrasting fashion today to set up the title clash in the Bhavana Swarup ITF Women's tennis tournament.
Australia's Hewitt earned the accolade for the second year running, while American Williams was honoured for the first time.
He will open his campaign against world number 47, Australian Hayden Jones.
Turkey's Basak Eraydin and Israel's Karen Shlomo continued their dream run, making it to the semi-finals of the NECC ITF women's $25,000 tennis tournament, in Pune.
Sunitha Rao shrugged off a poor start to beat Kristina Kuvoca of Slovakia in a tough three-setter and advance to the singles second round of the US $50,000 ITF women's tennis tournament in Boston, USA. The United States-based Indian, seeded fifth, rallied to beat her Slovakian opponent 1-6 6-4 7-6(4) in the first round of the hardcourt event.
The top seeded Indian will meet second seed Ditthim Punjaporn of Thailand in the final of the under-18 event.
unseeded Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the World junior tennis Asia/Oceania qualifying tournament
The Indian youngsters were rewarded for their good form as they were named in India's Billie Jean King Cup squad.
Coco Gauff became the first American to win a US Open singles title since Sloane Stephens in 2017.
Davis Cup: Strong Indian team is firm favourite against Pakistan in historic clash
Hauling itself up from World Group II should not be a complicated task for India when it takes on an unostentatious Morocco in the home tie, which will be more of a celebration of Rohan Bopanna's Davis Cup career.
Sanam Singh enjoyed a good day in office, reaching the men'[s singles quarter-finals and doubles semi-finals in the US $15,000 ITF men's Futures tournament in Toronto, Canada.
'They should come to Pakistan. It's not fair that they do not come to Pakistan. The Indian team is much better than us. We have a beautiful hotel just across the stadium. If Indians come it will send a good message that we are good neighbours.'
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