Rohan Bopanna and his partner Kristof Vliegen progressed to the doubles quarter-finals of the Atlanta Tennis Championships in USA with a straight set win over Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana.
The 33-year-old left-hander from Luxembourg had lost all five of his previous tour finals but prevailed at the sixth attempt in the Australian Open warm-up event at the Olympic Tennis Centre.
India's Achanta Sharath Kamal came up with a splendid performance to shock top seed Li Ching of Hong Kong and win the Egypt Open Table Tennis Championships in Cairo on Sunday. The sixth seeded Indian Olympian won 11-5,11-6,14-16,12-10,11-9 to claim his second successive title in as many weeks, having won the US Open last Sunday, beating Keineth Thomas of Slovakia in Michigan.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal on Sunday closed in on his second successive international title when he defeated Jiang Tianyi of Hong Kong 4-1 to storm into final of the Egypt Open table tennis championships in Cairo.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal faced some stiff resistance before getting the better of Mikhail Gladyshev 4-1 and stormed into the men's singles quarter-finals of the Egypt Open table tennis championships while all his compatriots crashed out in Cairo on Saturday.
Male tennis players from the United States are almost as rare as hen's teeth at Wimbledon this year, but a hawk native to North and South America definitely rules the roost when it comes to clearing the championship courts of pigeons.
'I'm feeling good...Expectations are always high. I am not here to play the tournament; I am here to try to have a good result'
Spanish tennis player Nuria Llagostera Vives, doubles winner at the 2009 WTA tour championships, has been banned for two years after testing positive for d-methamphetamine, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Monday.
The Indian women blanked Austria 3-0 in their final league encounter at the World Team Table Tennis Championship.
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.
Ashutosh Singh won the men's national championship while Isha Lakhani completed the title hat-trick.
World number nine Mardy Fish saved two match points in recording a 3-6, 7-6, 6-2 victory over fellow American John Isner to defend his Atlanta Tennis Championship title on Sunday.
Milos Raonic, the finalist at Wimbledon this year, and women's world number five Simona Halep of Romania have pulled out from next month's Rio Olympics due to fears over the Zika virus.
The 18-year-old Indian entered the boys' singles semi-finals in the Hong Kong Open junior tennis championships.
The Russian five-times Grand Slam champion struggled for rhythm initially on the low-bouncing grasscourt at the Mallorca Open but picked up the pace to beat Viktoria Kuzmova 7-6(8), 6-0.
The second seeded Indo-Czech pair beat the German-Belgian combination 2-6, 7-6(6), 10-7 in the semi-finals of the US $1,619,500 hard court event.
Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Qureshi finished their Indianapolis Tennis Championships campaign on a sordid note after pulling out of their quarter-final encounter midway due to a back injury to the Indian. The unseeded Indo-Pakistani were trailing 2-6, 0-1 against the Australian-American pair of Ashley Fisher and Tripp Phillips when Bopanna decided to pull out.
Indian youngster Soumyajit Ghosh has cleared the qualification round of the Kuwait Open and joined compatriot, Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal in the main draw of the pro tour table tennis Championships in Kuwait City.
With Somdev Devvarman qualifying for the singles event, all the members of the Indian Davis Cup team are now set to compete in the $1,619,500 Dubai Tennis Championships, beginning in Dubai on Monday.
Sania Mirza yet again failed to move beyond the first round of a WTA tournament and crashed out of the USD two million Dubai Tennis Championships following her 3-6, 4-6 defeat against Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues in Dubai on Monday.
China completed a clean sweep of all five titles at the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokahama on Tuesday, with world number ones Wang Hao and Zhang Yining claiming the men's and women's singles crowns. The Chinese team dominated the event -- held every two years -- for the third straight time, with all-Chinese finals in each discipline.
Order of play on the main showcourts on the first day of the June 23-July 6 Wimbledon tennis championships on Monday.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal came up with a resounding performance to overcome higher-ranked German Steger Bastian and reach the third round in the World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama, Japan, on Thursday. World No 85 Sharath defeated Bastian, ranked 39, 4-1 in a long-drawn battle in the round of 64.
World number four Jelena Jankovic beat Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-5, 6-2 to reach the final of the Andalucia Tennis Championships on Saturday. The Serbian second seed, by far the highest-ranked player remaining after Wednesday's shock exit of world number one Serena Williams, will be aiming to win her first title of the season when she meets Carla Suarez Navarro in Sunday's final.
Round-robin formats at tennis tournaments can cause confusion but Serena Williams has an easy solution, just keep winning.
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Second seeded Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles squandered chances aplenty and went down 6-7 (4), 2-6 to Rik De Voest and Dmitry Tursonov in the quarter-finals of the US $2,233,500 Dubai Tennis championships. With Mahesh's defeat, the Indian challenge ended at the event, as Leander Paes and Prakash Amritraj also exited with their respective partners.
Second seed Dinara Safina slumped out of the Dubai Tennis Championships in the second round on Tuesday after losing 6-4 6-2 to Virginie Razzano of France.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal's heroics went in vein as India went down to China 1-3 in the quarter-final to bow out of men's team event on the third day of the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships in Lucknow on Wednesday.
The top seeds beat Igor Kunitsyn and Jeff Thomas 6-3, 6-2 to enter the semi-final of the Memphis Open.
Mary was back in her preferred 48kg category as she overcame the challenge from younger competitors to make it to the Indian team for the marquee continental event, which is to be held from November 2 to November 11 in the Ho Chi Minh City.
'When we play against Djokovic, many times we didn't know exactly what we had to do. This is more difficult, for me. I prefer to play against Federer'
Sania ousted from Qatar Total Open.
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World number one Roger Federer will begin his bid to win a record sixth consecutive US Open against American wildcard Devin Britton after the draw was made on Thursday. Women's champion Serena Williams begins her campaign against American wildcard Alexa Glatch.
Roll of honour at the 2004 Wimbledon tennis championships.
Reader Anand spotted Vijay Amritraj in New York.
Last year's runner-up Prakash Amritraj breezed into the second round of the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships with a straight-set victory over Thailand's Danai Udomchoke in Newport.
Manika Batra has absolutely got the fashion memo right.
The Serb's dominance in 2016, says Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com, is way beyond numbers. It's about how he forced his opponents into submission.
