IMAGES from Day 4 of the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Wednesday.
H S Prannoy scored his second successive victory over three-time Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei, while Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth also registered contrasting wins to advance to the quarter-finals of the Denmark Open Super Series Premier, in Odense, on Thursday.
Jelena Jankovic continued her impressive preparation for the French Open when she beat world number three Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5 6-1 in the final of the Italian Open on Sunday.
The world No 1 was taken the distance by Argentine qualifier Juan Monaco at the Hamburg Masters.
Images from Day 4 of the French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris.
Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin pounded their way into the fourth round of the Sony Ericsson Open on Sunday but Martina Hingis fell to a Polish teenager
Top seed Maria Sharapova dodged the showers on her way to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Taiwan's Chan Yung-Jan to set up a third round encounter against Venus Williams at the Sony Ericsson Open on Saturday.
Vera Zvonareva sent world number one Maria Sharapova to a stunning 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 at the Pacific Life Open.
Carolina Marin became the first Spaniard to win the All-England badminton championship when she defeated India's Saina Nehwal 16-21, 21-14, 21-7 in Birmingham on Sunday.
Fourth-seed Tommy Robredo fell to wily Frenchman Fabrice Santoro 7-6, 6-4.
IMAGES from the Australian Open matches played on Thursday
India's hopes of winning a medal in badminton team events at the 18th Asian Games went up in smoke after the men's and women's sides bowed out of the competition following identical 1-3 defeats in the quarter-finals in Jakarta on Monday.
The third seeded Russian will play will play Germany's Tommy Haas for a place in the semi-finals.
The Indian ace beat Ukraine's Olga Savchuk in her opening match.
Fourth seed Nathan Thompson of the United States beat Harsh Mankad to set up a final with countryman Young Ryan in the India F3 Men's ITF tournament. Qualifier Young Ryan overcame Hyun-Woo Nam of Korea in the other semi-final.
Italy's Matteo Berrettini overcame second seed Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6(9), 6-4 to win his first title at the Swiss Open in Gstaad on Sunday.
The unseeded Indo-Canadian combine beat the Romanian-Dutch pairing of Tecau and Rojer 6-2, 3-6, 10-7 in a quarters
Serena Williams played with fire at the French Open on Thursday but the world number one pulled through to the third round with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 win against unheralded German Anna-Lena Friedsam.
The Indian ace won the first set but was outplayed in the next two by Francesca Schiavone in the second round of the US Open.
Maria Sharapova's hopes of a second successive WTA Tour title ended when she was shocked by fellow Russian Elena Dementieva in the Los Angeles Open semi-finals.
In a sensational turnaround, the unseeded Frenchman toppled the world number six from Croatia 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 in a gripping semi-final encounter.
Sindhu lost 7-21, 11-21 to World No. 3 Okuhara in a lop-sided contest.
Novak Djokovic claimed a fourth Wimbledon title in ruthless fashion as he beat giant South African Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2, 7-6(3) on a sweltering Centre Court.
The eighth seeded Indian teenager beat qualifier Vilmarie Castellvi of Puerto Rico to set up a meeting with local hope Aiko Nakamura at the Japan Open.
Andy Murray beat Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the St Petersburg Open to win his second title of the year.
Roger Federer beat Tomas Berdych in the final in Halle to equal Bjorn Borg's record of 41 wins on the trot on grass
Roger Federer regretted easing the pressure on Rafael Nadal after the first set of the French Open final
Rohan Bopanna teamed up with Canada's Denis Shapovalov to enter the quarter-finals of the Rotterdam Open
The victory sent the Swiss through to the Italian Open final against 16th seed Dinara Safina.
Kim Clijsters recovered to beat Japanese qualifier Akiko Morigami 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 at the Italian Open
The Belgian beat Wimbledon champion Venus Williams for her third Stanford Classic title.
In another match at the Sunfeast Open, wild card Kyra Shroff was virtually given tennis lessons by eighth seed Chinese Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan before bowing out.
World No 1 Serena Williams edged an enthralling battle with third-seed Simona Halep.
Sania-Martina will next face ninth seeds Yung-Jan Chan and Hao-Ching Chan of Chinese Taipei, who rallied to beat unseeded Romanians Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (4).
Former world number one Marat Safin was dumped out in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters on Monday, beaten 6-3 7-6 by German Nicolas Kiefer.
Sindhu, seeded fifth, slugged it out for one hour and two minutes to get the better of Blichfeldt
Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu beat Olympic and world champion Carolina Marin in the Indian Open final, in New Delhi, on Sunday.
The defending champion lost to Russia's Nadia Petrova 2-6, 3-6 in the quarterfinal.
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