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Top seeds Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak , currently No. 9 in the 2009 year-to-date ATP Doubles Team Rankings, and third seeds Rohan Bopanna and Travis Parrott both made first round exits Wednesday at the St.

Agencies SEOUL, 26 OCT: Somdev Devvarman and his American partner Todd Martin crashed out of the $125,000 Association of Tennis Professional challenger, losing in the doubles first round here on Monday.

Somdev Devvarman continued his upward journey in the ranking list, as India's new tennis star rose by three rungs to career best 121 on Monday.

Bob and Mike Bryan have won six tour-level titles this year. The Californian twins, who captured their sixth tour-level title of the year at the China Open in Beijing last week, improved to a 61-14 season record with their first match win at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 hard-court tournament in Shanghai.

Jaroslav Levinsky and Christopher Kas are teaming together for the first time this week.

Jaroslav Levinsky and Christopher Kas progressed to the Tokyo quarter-finals on Thursday.

First-time pairing Mark Knowles and Andy Roddick booked a place in the China Open semi-finals Wednesday after they defeated Jose Acasuso and Fernando Gonzalez 4-6, 7-5, 10-4 in 79 minutes.A Acasuso and Gonzalez served for the match at 5-4 in the second set but Roddick and Knowles held their nerve to win the Match tie-break.A The American-Bahamian ...

Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram have won two ATP World Tour titles in two outings together this season.

The Czech Republic has reached its first Davis Cup final in 29 years, winning its doubles match for an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Croatia.

Lovro Zovko gave Croatia its lone point of the Davis Cup semifinals against the victorious Czech Republic with a straight-set win over Lukas Dlouhy in the final dead singles rubber on Sunday.

The Czechs, who haven't reached the final since their 1980 championship victory, finished the opening day of their last four clash against Croatia, the 2005 winners, with a 2-0 lead in Porec, on Friday.

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Indian tennis star Somdev Devvarman. IANS NEW DELHI: India's Somdev Devvarman jumped 29 places to 133 in the latest Association of Tennis Professional rankings.

NEW DELHI: India's chances of qualifying for Davis Cup World Group finals received a major setback as injured Leander Paes pulled out of the play-off tie against South Africa in Johannesburg.

It never rains at U.S. Open, it pours. Just a day after Friday's entire programme was washed out, leaving Rafael Nadal and Fernando Gonzalez trapped in the player's lounge as they waited to conclude their quarter-final, it was the turn of the women to stare out of the window.

The fourth-seeded duo of Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes battled back from a set down on Sunday to win the 2009 U.S. Open men's doubles final.

Rain on Saturday at the US Open has forced the postponement of the men's doubles final and the completion of a women's doubles semi-final to Sunday, tournament officials announced.

Rafael Nadal stepped out of the players' cafeteria at the U.S. Open a little before 3p.m. Friday and pressed his face against a window, cupping his hands around his eyes as he scanned the soaked tournament grounds.

Ten reasons why Leander Paes will be kicking himself for his 2-6, 4-6 defeat in the mixed doubles final with partner Cara Black against first-time pair of Travis Parrott and Carly Guillickson *Second seeded Paes-Black were defending champions and favourites to win as they were the best seeds left in the fray.

Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas outwitted Croatian Ivan Ljubicic and Frenchman Michael Llodra in the men's doubles quarter final at US Open here.