Dustin Brown's audacious attempt to unseat defending Wimbledon champion Andy Murray with a show-boating brand of serve and volley tennis was always likely to end in failure.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday.
Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes and doubles partner Czech Radek Stepanek entered the US Open men's doubles pre-quarterfinals with a straight-set victory in the second round in New York.
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Real Madrid's unbeaten start to the La Liga season came to an abrupt and surprising end as Real Mallorca claimed a stunning 1-0 victory at a rocking Son Moix on Saturday to climb out of the relegation zone.
South Korea's Chung Hyeon said he hopes the shot clock being tested out at the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan will become a regular feature on the Tour because it allows him to clean his spectacles without worrying.
Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna's challenge at the Australian Open ended, on Wednesday, with a shock defeat in the mixed doubles quarterfinals with partner Yung-Jan Chan.
The Indian ace and Anna Chakvetadze of Russia will take on Alina Jidkova of Russia and Tatiana Perebiynis of Ukraine in their opening match of the women's doubles at Wimbledon.
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Mahesh Bhupathi, Prakash Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna have been included in the original squad, announced last week.
Shweta Kakhandaki/Poojashree Venkatesh and Sumit Gupta/Vivek Shokeen won their quarter-final matches in the ITF tournament in Islamabad.
The Indian youngster won the singles and doubles crown in the ITF Grade 4 Junior championship there.
Nick Kyrgios has split with a second coach in a year after deciding to part ways with Todd Larkham just days before the start of Wimbledon.
Both the girls teams booked their berth in the semi-finals of the World Junior Circuit Table Tennis championship.
Their boys and girls' teams proved too good for Korea in the finals.
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The unseeded Indian pair registered a comfortable 6-4, 6-2 victory over Phillip Simmonds of the United States and Fritz Wolmarans of South Africa.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
The two are part of a five-member boys and girls' team which embarks on a six-week tour of Europe on Friday.
Indian colts blanked top seeds Australia 2-0 in the final of the Junior Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone tennis championship.
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Archana Venkataraman, Sheethal Goutham, Liza Pereira and Isha Lakhani sailed into the 2nd round in ITF tournament.
The team, comprising Madhurika Patkar, Sushmita Roy, Mousumi Paul and Sangeetha Seshadri beat the United States 3-2 to finish in the top 10.
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They won the boys and girls' titles respectively in the Jr Asian TT championship.
India's Karan Rastogi and partner Yi Chu-Huan won the doubles title in the Grade I 40th Astrid Bowl Charleroi Belgian International Junior Championships.
The promising Indian youngster and partner Yi Chu-Huan of Chinese Taipei lost the doubles final in a Grade A tournament in Milan, Italy.
India registered a 3-0 win over Philippines in the Asia-Oceania zonal tie of the Junior Fed Cup tennis competition.
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They made the grade in the Jr National tennis championships with contrasting wins.
Track and field athletes, who were leading the Indian charge in the past few days, fetched the maximum 12 medals but just two of them were gold.
They won the the boys and girls' under-18 titles respectively in the AITA Juniors Masters tournament in Delhi.\n\n
The Asian number one junior player benefitted from Leander Paes's injury who withdrew from the event.
The victory earned the 17-year-old a meeting wth top seed Vinod Sridhar in the men's singles semi-finals in the National Tennis championships.
The up-and-coming junior was humbled by the Indian Davis Cupper after winning the first set in the ITF Futures tournament.
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya also advanced to the second round with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Gurmehar Singh in the $10,000 ITF Futures men's tennis tournament.
Maria Sharapova rallied to beat Kaia Kanepi on Thursday and will meet Serena Williams in the Brisbane International semi-final knowing she must drastically improve to end her run of 13 straight defeats against the world number one.
The diminutive Mumbai lass beat the Wimbledon girls' doubles champion to enter the semi-finals in the NSCI-ITF women's tennis tournament.
The 17-year-old rallied to make the grade in the Osaka Mayor's Cup tennis tournament
Chinese Taipei pulled of an upset, beating China in the boys' semi-finals in the Asian Jr TT championships.
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