A year before he won his first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros in 2005, Rafa made his debut in India at the Chennai Open.
Leander Paes and Scott Lipsky progressed to the semifinals of the ATP Geneva Open after getting a walkover from their opponents Rogerio Dutra Silva and Paolo Lorenzi.
Spain's Tommy Robredo shocked world number one Novak Djokovic 7-6(6), 7-5 on Thursday to move into the quarter-finals of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati.
A dominant Delhi Dreams registered their second successive win in the Champions Tennis League (CTL), defeating a fighting Mumbai Tennis Masters 27-19 in a North Group match in New Delhi on Tuesday night.
Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka stepped out of compatriot Roger Federer's shadow and into the US Open semi-finals with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 upset of defending champion Andy Murray on Thursday.
Only Frenchman Richard Gasquet stands in the way of a Spaniard appearing in next Monday's men's final after Rafa Nadal, Tommy Robredo and David Ferrer all sailed into the quarter-finals.
Rafael Nadal steamrolled compatriot Tommy Robredo 6-0, 6-2, 6-2 to move into the semi-finals of the US Open at Flushing Meadows on Wednesday.
Rafael Nadal looks unstoppable at the US Open.
Tommy Robredo suspected he could stun Roger Federer at the US Open because the Swiss master had developed self-doubts, the Spaniard said after the extraordinary upset on Monday.
Roger Federer suffered a shock loss to Tommy Robredo at the US Open on Monday, ruining the chance of meeting Rafael Nadal at the only Grand Slam where the two greats have never played each other.
The Indo-Czech duo was beaten by fifth seeds Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in the second round of the Barcelona Open.
Edmund sailed through in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 against world number 70 Jeremy Chardy and will face fourth seed Dominic Thiem of Austria.
The world number one has been struggling with tendinitis in his knees since being knocked out of the French Open last month and was forced to miss Wimbledon.
Spanish top seed Rafa Nadal overcame stubborn second-set resistance from compatriot Tommy Robredo to reach the Shanghai Masters quarter-finals 6-1, 6-4 on Thursday. Second seed Novak Djokovic again looked impressive as he continued his imperious form in China with a 6-4, 6-2 thrashing of German qualifier Rainer Schuettler.
The Indo-Czech pair scored a convincing 6-1, 6-4 win over Agustin Calleri of Argentina and Spain's Tommy Robredo.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi remained on course for a maiden Australian Open title following a hard-fought 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over Tommy Robredo and Marcel Granollers of Spain on Monday. Things, however, did not fall in place for Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam -ul-Haq Qureshi. The 'Indo-Pak Express' went down fighting to France's Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-3, 6-7, 6-7.
Defending champion Roger Federer made heavy work of reaching his 27th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Tommy Robredo at the Australian Open on Sunday.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi reached the final of a Grand Slam for the first time in their career after scoring a facile 7-6(5), 6-4 win over Argentines Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos at the US Open on Wednesday.
Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy breezed past Spaniards Nicolas Almagro and Tommy Robredo to storm into the Sony Ericsson Open doubles final in Miami.
Crowd favourite John Isner advanced to his second career ATP Tour final on Friday with an 6-2, 7-6 victory over Spanish eighth seed Albert Montanes.
Spain eased past Australia to book their place in the final of the Hopman Cup on Thursday, dashing any hopes the hosts had of advancing with an emphatic 3-0 whitewash.
Rafael Nadal kept winning the hard way at the Paris Masters on Thursday, overcoming fellow Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals. Nadal, who saved five match points before taming Nicolas Almagro in another all-Spanish battle on Wednesday, needed two hours and 20 minutes to shrug off a brave challenge from Robredo, seeded 14th in the indoor event.
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi moved through to the Australian Open mixed doubles final after a comfortable 6-4, 6-1 win over the Czech Republic's Iveta Benesova and Lukas Dlouhy in Melbourne on Friday.
The Indo-Czech duo beat Spaniards David Ferrer and Tommy Robredo 7-6(5), 6-4 at the Miami Masters.
Tommy Robredo and Feliciano Lopez upset Israeli doubles specialists Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 to put champions Spain through to their fifth Davis Cup final in 10 years.
Rafael Nadal will team up with fellow Mallorcan Bartolome Salva-Vidal at the Chennai Open.
Andy Roddick marched into the quarter-finals of the US Open with an easy 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Chilean 11th seed Fernando Gonzalez.
World number one Rafael Nadal was handed a walkover into the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open on Thursday when his third-round opponent Philipp Kohlschreiber was forced out of the claycourt event with a left leg injury. Nadal was joined in the last eight by world number two Roger Federer, a 6-2, 6-4 winner over James Blake, and Andy Murray, who coped well with blustery conditions in the Magic Box stadium to dispatch Spanish 16th seed Tommy Robredo 7-5, 6-1.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic breezed past misfiring Spaniard Tommy Robredo 6-1, 6-1 to reach the Rome Masters quarter-finals on Thursday. World number two Roger Federer had to work only slightly harder to progress with a 6-4, 6-1 win over 16th seed Radek Stepanek and avenge the quarter-final defeat he suffered against the Czech here last year.
Also lining-up for the September 24-30 ATP event are Marcos Baghdatis and Richard Gasquet.
Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy entered the quarterfinals of the euro 2,750,000 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in Monaco, defeating unseeded Spaniard duo of Albert Montanes and Tommy Robredo in a match tie-breaker.
The second seeds play the winner of the tie between Wayne Black/Kevin Ullyett and Nicolas Kiefer/Rainder Schuettler in the Pacific Life Open.\n\n
The Indo-Bahamian duo lost 2-6, 3-6 to the American pair of James Blake and Mardy Fish in the pre-quarter-finals. Leander Paes, the other Indian in the fray, and his new Spanish partner Tommy Robredo got a first round bye. They face the formidable third seeded Israeli duo of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the pre-quarter-finals.
Spain's Tommy Robredo won his second successive tournament on Sunday when he beat Argentina's Juan Monaco 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 in the final of the Buenos Aires Open.
The Swiss, dreaming of capturing the only Grand Slam title to have eluded him, was drawn on Friday in the same half as several dangerous opponents, including former champion Juan Carlos Ferrero.
They will take on Nathalie Dechy of France and Andy Ram of Israel, who shocked the seventh seeded Spanish combination of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Tommy Robredo 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 in the other semi-final.
In his place, Tommy Robredo has been called up alongside David Ferrer, Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco.
Israel's Dudi Sela played giant-killer again on Friday, upsetting sixth seed Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-4, 6-1 to sweep to his first ATP Tour semi-final at the $524,000 China Open.
Marcos beat holder Nikolay Davydenko 6-2, 6-2 in the third round of the Paris Masters Series.
Tommy Robredo accused Novak Djokovic of exaggerating the seriousness of his injuries to get some extra rest during their draining fourth round at the US Open.
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