However, Somdev Dev Varman and Karan Rastogi fell in the first round of the ITF Grade I tournament.
They lost their doubles match against Japan, G K Swetha and Ashmita Easwaramurthy going down to Ayumi Morita and Emiko in straight sets. The teams were tied 1-1 after the singles.
The fifth seed will take on top seed Liza Pereira in the semi-finals of the ITF tournament.
Both romped into the second round in the third leg of the ITF tournament.
The fourth seed was beaten by sixth-seeded teen sensation Ankita Bhambri in the quarter-final of the ITF tournament.
Ankita and Sana were beaten in the first round of the ITF women's tournament.
The victory gave the Indian Davis Cupper a berth in the last four of the ITF tournament.
Unseeded Vinod Sridhar was the lone player to put up a fight before going down in the ITF tournament.
The 20-year-old Russian won the Delhi leg of the ITF Futures tournament and picked his fifth Futures title.
National hardcourt champion Vinod Sridhar, however, went down to second seed Dmitri Vlasov in the ITF Futures tournament.
India Davis Cupper Harsh Mankad beat Russia's Sergei Pozdnev to make it to the second round in the ITF men's Futures tournament.
The Indian ace won the first set but turned erratic thereafter and lost to Bulgaria's Todov Enev in the semi-finals of the ITF Futures tournament.
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The Indian lass recovered after losing the first set to get past the Indonesian in the first round of the ITF tournament.
The Indian wild card beat the Japanese in the first round of the ITF tournament in Delhi.
The Delhi girl stormed into the semifinals with a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 win over Isha Lakhani at the $10,000 ITF Women's Championship.
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The Indian wild card beat the Pakistani third seed to enter the second round in the ITF Futures tournament.
The 42-year-old Leander Paes's dream of appearing in a record seventh Olympics may remain just that if Rohan Bopanna decides to play with a player ranked lower than the world No 46.
Maldini, an ace defender, who donned the Italian national team colours 126 times, made his AC Milan debut in 1985, and played his last Serie A match in May 2009.
The captain may be loathe to the idea, but the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association defended the decision to slot the Davis Cup tie against Spain in the evening, saying the aim is to make the event more accessible to tennis fans and save Indian players from cramping.
British player Dan Evans has been provisionally suspended after admitting on Friday that he had failed a doping test for cocaine at the Barcelona Open in April.
In the boys section, Somdev Varman lost against Kasiri Miles of Britain.
Brian Hung of Hong Kong was his conqueror in the first round of the ITF Satellite tournament.
India went down to Taiwan in the third-fourth place play-off, in the Asia-Oceania junior girls' Fed Cup tennis.
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'Sharapova has been a US resident since early in her career, which does bring in a question of how or why she is using a drug that is not licensed there'
Bopanna also in reserves while four single specialists named in squad
AITA brought back old warhorse Leander Paes in the Davis Cup team despite 'reservations' from seasoned campaigner Rohan Bopanna.
Italian Bracciali banned for life, Starace for 10 years
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
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India-Pakistan peace seem like a pipe dream but it does turn into a reality at sporting events like the ongoing Asian Games
While some say the five-times Grand Slam champion, initially banned for two years after testing positive for Meldonium, has done her time some fellow players are angry the red carpet is being rolled out.
She should win her place thanks to good results, says Radwanska
Tennis great Vijay Amritraj says there should be least controversy with regards to India's doubles combination in Davis Cup since the doubles match matters only when there are 'even singles matches'.
Tennis Australia has apologised for a 'clerical error' in a media release that said estranged local player Bernard Tomic was playing in a 'Hall of Shame'.
'I'm always surprised when I walk off court after a final and I'm like 'where is anti-doping?'
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