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.
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.
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.
Kannamwar has also officiated as a chair umpire in the Australian, US, French Open and the Olympic Games.
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.
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.
They lost to Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriquez of Argentina in the Tennis Masters Cup.
The Indian youngster beat unseeded Thai girl Chattida Thimjapo 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the ITF tournament in Mumbai.
The unseeded Indian ace will meet eighth seed Akgul Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan for the NSCI-ITF title.
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.
Parul Goswami beat the eighth seed to enter the second round of the Gujarat NRE Coke-ITF Women's Circuit 2005.
The Swedes will be the seeded team while India has the right to decide on the surface for the September 23 - 25 tie.
It has sought the ITF's approval to field the US-born Indian.
The Indian lass was beaten by top seed Suchanan Viratprasert of Thailand in the quarter-finals of the \n\nITF tournament.
The top seed beat Ankita Bhambri 7-6, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the ITF women's tennis tournament in New Delhi.
Ankita Bhambri had an easy outing as her opponent Shikha Uberoi of USA, retired due to a back spasm in the ITF Women's Tennis Championship.
Third seed Chin Bee Khoo went down to unseeded Wilawan Choptang, while eighth seed Sonal Phadke was beaten by Jie Hao of China in the ITF Women's Tennis tournament.
The eighth seed was beaten by qualifier Punam Reddy in the ITF tournament.
The Indian ace upset third seed Carla Tiene of Brazil 6-2, 6-1 to enter the finals of the US $10,000 Rabat ITF Women's world ranking tournament.
The Indian ace beat the No. 1 seed to enter the semis in the Rabat ITF women's world ranking tournament.
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