India's Rohan Bopanna and his Polish partner Marcin Matkowski reached the men's doubles final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships after beating Leander Paes and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in three sets on Friday.
All the Indian players in contention qualified for the main draw at the Chile Open Table Tennis championships.
Britain number one Andy Murray has overtaken 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal to claim the third spot in the ATP world rankings.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas stormed into the final of the $1,401,000 ATP Dubai Tennis Championships with a straight set thrashing of second seeds Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle. Bhupathi and Knowles, seeded fourth, scripted a resounding 6-2, 6-0 victory over the Swedish-Austrian combination and will now face third-seeded Czech pair of Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner.
Following is a list of biggest shocks in women's tennis after Italian outsider Roberta Vinci, ranked 43rd, beat world number one Serena Williams in the US Open semi-finals on Friday to deny the American a chance to complete a calendar year Grand Slam.
Somdev Devvarman advanced to the second round in the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships after scoring a straight-set win over America's Kevin Kim in Newport. The unseeded Indian took 63 minutes to complete a 6-4, 6-3 win in the first round of the US $442,500 grass court event.
Bernard Tomic was sent packing early at the US Open and his minimal earnings were offset by a $10,000 fine levied on him for a crude on-court outburst he directed at a heckler during his first-round loss.
The 10th seeds and French Open champions lost 7-6(4), 4-6, 5-7 to the unseeded Finnish-British combo in exactly two hours on centre court.
J Vishnu Vardhan and Rushmi Chakravarthy won the men's and women's titles respectively at the National Grasscourt Championship.
Psychologists have become a more established presence on the tennis tour, with top players like Andy Murray and Petra Kvitova espousing the benefits.
The National champions, both representing PSEB, won the men and women's singles titles respectively in the Inter-Institutional Table Tennis Championship.
The Indian went down to top seed Russian Iroda Tulyaganova 2-6, 2-6 in the final of the Asian Tennis Championships.
Top seed James Blake overcame a patchy service game to defeat South Korean qualifier Woong-Sun Jun 6-3, 7-5 and reach the quarter-finals of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Thursday. Blake, ranked eighth in the world, made just 49 percent of his first serves but converted three of nine break points to defeat the 293rd-ranked Jun in 71 minutes.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi could not recreate their old chemistry and crashed out of the Indianapolis tennis championship with a first round defeat. The 'Indian Express' pair failed to hold their nerve in the match tie-break and went down to the Canadian duo of Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer 4-6, 6-3, 10-12 in one hour and 25 minutes.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi rallied from a set down to topple fourth seeded Russian duo of Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Kunitsyn in the first round in Indianapolis.
Prasar Bharti were restrained from interfering with the telecast of the tri-series cricket in Sri Lanka, the US Open tennis, the hockey World Cup as the exclusive telecast rights are with Ten Sports.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi went down 6-4, 7-6(1) to unseeded American duo of Mardy Fish and John Isner in the doubles final.
Indian Davis Cupper, Prakash Amritraj went down 3-6, 5-7 to France's Fabrice Santoro in the final of the Newport ATP.
Rohan Bopanna's dream run at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships came to an end after he was handed a straight-set defeat by Prakash Amritraj in an all-Indian quarter-final of the USD 385,000 event in Newport, United States.
Hyderabad girl Bhuvana Kalva's comeback story reflects true grit
Qualifier Rohan Bopanna beat top seed Mardy Fish 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 to set up a quarter-final clash with Prakash Amritraj.
Prakash Amritraj put up a brilliant fight back to advance to the singles second round of Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna set up a second round clash with top seed Mardy Fish after defeating Kim Kevin on Monday in straight sets at the US $385,000 Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, United States. Bopanna beat his American opponent 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 11 minutes.
The top seeded pair was shocked by Americans Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish in the first round of the Indianapolis Tennis Championships.
Indian men beat Scotland 3-1 in the 17th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.
Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal is hoping for a good showing in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships that get underway in Lucknow on Monday to boost his ranking.
Second and third seeds Jelena Jankovic and Daniela Hantuchova were sent spinning from the Amelia Island tennis championship on Friday.
Leander Paes made a first-round exit from the $ 1,410,000 Barclay Dubai Tennis Championships but Indian hopes were kept alive by Rohan Bopanna who stormed into the doubles quarterfinals of the hard court event.
The Australian Open champion, who is unbeaten in 2008, pulled out of the tournament citing a viral illness.
They beat wild cards Svetlana Kuznetsova and Amelie Mauresmo 6-4, 6-4 in the first round at the Dubai Open.
India's national champion beat the Brazilian to advance to the quarter-finals of the inaugural Indian Open table tennis championships.
Novak Djokovic was in imperious form before the circuit came to a halt. Djokovic said he initially struggled to cope with the uncertainty surrounding when tennis can restart after its shutdown in early March due to the novel coronavirus.
Manika Batra has absolutely got the fashion memo right.
All the remaining four players lost their second round matches in the qualifying event of the Chennai Open.
It was job well done for Novak Djokovic as he silenced Bernard Tomic and his Australian Fanatics with an emphatic 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 victory in the Wimbledon third round on Friday.
Third seed Neha Uberoi of the United States and fifth seed Nina Bratchikova of Russia were knocked out by lesser fancied opponents in the US $25,000 NECC-ITF Women's Tennis Championship in Pune on Wednesday. Russia's Alexandra Panova got the better of Neha 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 to enter the quarter-finals. Joining Alexandra in the last eight was another unseeded player, Alexandra Kolesnihenko of Uzbekistan, who shocked fifth seed Nina Bratchikova of Russia 7-6 (10-8), 6-3.
World number one Novak Djokovic was disqualified from his US Open fourth round match against Pablo Carreno Busta on Sunday after the Serbian struck a line judge with a ball following a point.
Liberhan rallied to shock tenth seeded Korean Woong-Sun Jun and make the third round in the boys' singles at the French Open.
