Jasmine Paolini put on a tennis masterclass to steer Italy to a fifth Billie Jean King Cup title as she beat Rebecca Sramkova 6-2, 6-1 in the second singles rubber to wrap up a 2-0 win over Slovakia in the final on Wednesday.
Sania Mirza and Leander Paes kept Indian hopes alive by scoring victories in their respective events but curtains were drawn on the campaign of Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday.
US Open champion Kim Clijsters began her 2010 season with a comfortable 6-2, 6-1 victory over Italian Tathiana Garbin in the first round of the Brisbane International on Sunday.
The 19-year old Indian and Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Italy's Maria Elena Camerin and Tathiana Garbin at the Nasdaq 100 Open.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova made a successful return to singles from long-term injury with a 6-1 6-7 6-3 victory over Italian Tathiana Garbin in the first round of the Warsaw Open on Monday.
Serbian Jelena Jankovic battled into the second round of the French Open with a 7-6, 6-2 win over Romania's Monica Niculescu on Monday.
Nadia Petrova lost 6-3, 6-3 to Italy's Mara Santangelo in the second round of the Warsaw Cup.
Serbians Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic registered easy victories to advance to the fourth round of the Pacific Life Open. Third-seeded Jankovic shrugged off gusting winds to sweep aside Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-1, 6-1, while top seed Ana Ivanovic, the world number two, also progressed with great ease, dispatching Italy's Tathiana Garbin 6-3, 6-0.
Sixth seeded Israeli Shahar Peer battled through a tough first match at the Eastbourne International on Tuesday against an injured but determined Elena Likhovtseva.
Defending champions Italy and France set up a Fed Cup last-four meeting with sweeping victories in their quarter-finals on Sunday.
Both made it to the fourth round of the women's singles at the Australian Open.
The Belgian was beaten by little-known Italian Tathiana Garbin, while the American was humbled by Frenchman Olivier Mutis at the French Open..
Sania Mirza and her Polish partner Marta Domachowska lost to the Italian-American pair of Tathiana Garbin and Meilen Tu.
The Indo-South African pair lost to Mashona Washington and Tathiana Garbin in the doubles quarter-finals at the WTA Tier II tournament in Paris.
Sania Mirza beat Italy's Tathiana Garbin 6-2, 6-2 in the 1.3-million-dollar Acura Classic in San Diego, USA.
The Indian ace beat Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko in straight sets to advance to the main draw of the Acura Classic.
They play Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia for a berth in the quarter-finals.
The defending champion was dumped out of the French Open in the second round by 86th ranked Italian Tathiana Garbin.
The Chinese number one beat France's 31st seed Emilie Loit and set up a clash with Italy's Tathiana Garbin, who stunned Justine Henin-Hardenne.
World number one Serena Williams brushed past a weary Conchita Martinez 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the $1.3 million Family Circle Cup
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