The Indian ace has won six titles in 2004 and looks set for a successful transition from a promising potential to a true champion.
\n\nNo. 6 seed Sonal Phadke was shocked in the first round in the Mother's Recipe-ITF Women's Futures tournament.
The Indian ace scored a grand double winning the singles and doubles titles at the US $25,000 ITF women's tournament in Nigeria.
The 17-year-old beat Sherry Stevens of New Zealand 6-2, 6-2 in the quarter-final of the US $25,000 ITF women's tournament in Lagos, Nigeria.
The victory gave the former Junior National champion a place in the semi-finals of the ONGC ITF Futures tennis tournament.
The Indian wild card beat the sixth seeded Indonesian to enter the quarter-finals in the ITF Futures tournament.
The United States-based players displaces Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna.
The unseeded Tamil Nadu player shocked fifth seed Vindo Sridhar in the final of the ITF Futures tournament.
Vinod Sridhar upset second seed Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, while Vijay Kannan beat Chris Kwon of the US at the ITF Men's Futures tennis tournament.
The unseeded Indian will clash with Chris Kwon in the semi-finals of the ITF Men's Futures tournament.
Two of India's leading players were shown the door in the first round of the ITF men's Futures tournament in Delhi.
The victory earned the eighth seed a final meeting with top seed Rushmi Chakravarthi in the ITF women's tournament in Chennai.
Kannamwar has also officiated as a chair umpire in the Australian, US, French Open and the Olympic Games.
Ankita Bhambri registered an easy\n\nwin against Koreas's Eun-Hye Cho in the first round of the USD\n\n10,000 ITF Women's Circuit on Monday.
The Wimbledon girls' doubles champion beat Jenni Lee Heinser and Jenifer Stevens in the pre-quarterfinals of the ITF World Ranking Tennis tournament.
The Indian ace made the last 16 in the Chris Evert ITF women's tournament in the US.
The Indian girl suffered an ankle injury and conceded the match while trailing 3-6, 0-3 the ITF women's tournament.
Takeshi Itho of Japan accounted for the former while Mustafa Ghouse beat Stephen Amritraj in the ITF men's Satellite tournament.
The Kolkata-based lad beat Yew-Ming Si of Malaysia to enter the second round in the MSLTA-ITF Satellite tournament.
A new brand of tennis will make its debut in the country as international stars along with India's top players will come together to compete in the inaugural Champions Tennis League, where matches will be a one-set affair in an exciting format.
Both made it to the third round in the ITF tournament.
Archana Venkataraman, Sheethal Goutham, Liza Pereira and Isha Lakhani sailed into the 2nd round in ITF tournament.
The other semi-final in the ITF Futures tournament will pit Pakistan's Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi and qualifier Sergei Krotiouk of Russia.
The top two seeds cruised into the last eight in the Bhavana Swarup ITF tournament.
The seventh and eighth seeds were beaten by Manoj Mahadevan and Vinod Sridhar respectively in the ITF Futures tournament.
The duo will meet in the semis in the ITF Futures tournament.
The sixth seeded Indian was beaten by unseeded Diana Julianto of Indonesia in the first round in the ITF Futures tournament.
The Indian girls will be looking to avenge last week's defeat against the 20-year-old Uzbek.\n
The unseeded Thai beat the eighth seeded Bulgarian to enter the quarter-finals in the NECC-ITF women's tournament.
The Karnataka lass beat the top seed to enter the pre-quarter-finals in NECC-ITF women's tournament.
The Indian youngster beat unseeded Thai girl Chattida Thimjapo 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the ITF tournament in Mumbai.
They lost to Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriquez of Argentina in the Tennis Masters Cup.
According to the latest rankings issued on Monday, the left-handed Sharan is ranked 50th after gaining a place. He had reached the final of the last three tournaments he participated in, winning the ATP 250 European Open, while ending runner-up at Challenger events in Brest and Tashkent with different partners.
The unseeded Indian ace will meet eighth seed Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan for the NSCI-ITF title.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday.
Sania Mirza beat Petra Russegier of Austria to enter the final of the US $10,000 Regione House ITF clay tournament in Italy.
They made the grade with contrasting victories in the ITF Futures tennis tournament.
The unseeded Indian rallied after dropping the first set to make the second round in the ITF Futures tournament.
He beat second seed Sumit Gupta to win the ITF Pakistan International Junior Tennis championship.
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