Roger Federer will play against his childhood mate Marco Chiudinelli in the Swiss Indoors semi-finals. Friendship will be on the back burner in a battle of Basle boys for a place in the final of the Swiss Indoors.
 
Top seed Federer has been a winner of last three editions of his home event. ...

Prakash Amritraj and Purav Raja were ousted from singles and doubles event at the Korea ATP Challenger. The Indian challenge in the $100,000 Flea Market Cup ATP Challenger ended with both the Indians losing out their respective matches on Friday.
 
Prakash struggled but went down to Dutch ...

Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh of India entered the quarter-finals at the $50,000 Virginia National Bank ATP Challenger.
 
Third-seed Somdev ousted South African Davis Cupper Izak Van Der Merwe by 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in his second round encounter on Thursday .He will face Dutchman Matwe ...

Top-seeded Andy Murray advanced into the quarter-finals of Valencia Open on Thursday after defending champion David Ferrer withdrew injured on Thursday.
 
Andy Murray, making his return from a wrist injury, defeated Leonardo Mayer of Argentina by 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Murray will meet Albert ...

Novak Djokovic clinched his career best victory on Thursday at Basel. He crushed Czech Jan Hernych by 6-0, 6-0 to advance into the Swiss Indoors quarter-finals.
 
The Serb registered his win in a 52 minute encounter .Novak bettered his last best win where he had outclassed Argentina's David ...

Fourth seed Fernando Verdasco entered the second round of Valencia Open on Wednesday. He advanced into the next round as Spanish compatriot Oscar Hernandez pulled out of the tournament with back trouble.
 
Verdasco dominated the game from the start and was leading 6-1,0-1 when Hernandez ...

Roger Federer cruised into the quarter-finals of the Swiss Indoors on Wednesday. He earned a 6-3, 6-3 sixth straight victory against the Italian Andreas Seppi in just an hour game.
 
The top seed claimed his 17th straight match in Basel and his 57th of the season as he entered the last eight ...

Prakash Amritraj of India entered the quarter-finals in Korea ATP Challenger. He earned a 6-1, 2-6, 7-6(4) win over Andis Juska to book a quarter-final berth in the $100,000 hard court event.
 
The unseeded Indian started on a brilliant note routing his Latavian rival in the first set ...

Somdev Devvarman of India advanced into the second round of Charlottesville challenger .He ousted Hungarian wildcard Denes Lukacs by 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in the first round of $50,000 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament.
 
Third-seeded Somdev will play against South African Davis ...

Novak Djokovic stormed into the second round at the Swiss Indoors in Basel. The Serbian defeated Andreas Beck by 6-3, 7-5 in the opening round.
 
Djokovic  registered his win in just under 90 minutes in the match played at the St Jakobshalle.Third-ranked Djokovic will take on ...

Prakash Amritraj of India ousted Kyu Tae IM to enter the second round of Korea Challenger. The Indian stunned the fifth seed and local favourite Kyu Tae IM by 6(2) 6-2 in the opening round of the $1, 00,000 hard court event.
 
Prakash will play against  Latvian Andis Juska in his second ...

Roger Federer claimed his 16th straight victory at his home Swiss Indoors. The top seeded world number one defeated Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus by 6-3, 6-4 on Monday in just 66 minutes.
 
The Swiss earned his first two break points with aces, only to see them saved by the battling ...

Serena Williams has set the record for single-season prize money in women's tennis. The eleven times grand slam winner has earned USD 6,545,586 in 2009.
 
Williams broke the Justine Henin’s record of $5.5 million, which she had earned in 2007.
 
The American who triumphed over ...

India's No.1 Somdev Devvarman is advancing towards the top-100 mark in the ATP chart. He bettered his career-best ranking to 116th jumping five places in the rankings released on Monday.
 
Somdev last week had improved his career best rankings of 124 to 121.
 
Prakash Amritraj climbed ...

Jurgen Melzer stunned Marin Cilic to clinch the Austria Tennis Trophy. He outclassed the Croatian in straight sets and earned a 6-4, 6-3 win over Cilic. The home hero became the first Austrian to lift the trophy since Horst Skoff in 1988, who had defeated Thomas Muster.
 
Melzer who earned ...

Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine claimed the St Petersburg Open title defeating Horacio Zeballos of Argentina on Sunday’s final clash. Stakhovsky established a 2-6, 7-6 (10/8), 7-6 (9/7) victory over the Argentine in a match played for two hours and 19 minutes.
 
This was ...

 
Croatian Ivan Ljubicic captured the Lyon Grand Prix title on Sunday. He crushed Michael Llodra of France by 7-5, 6-3 to earn his first ATP title in 2 years.
 
The World number 29 Ljubicic had earned his last title at the Den Bosch Open in 2007 and was the only non-Frenchman to ...

Serena Williams won her second career WTA Championship title on Sunday. She crushed Venus Williams by 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) to earn the prize money worth $1.55 million.
 
Serena's second season-ending trophy made her just the second player after Justine Henin in 2007 to win two Grand Slam titles as ...

Jeev Milkha Singh failed to make it into the semi-finals of the Volvo World Match Play championships on Friday.
 
Jeev, who at one stage fell four holes behind Ross Fisher after 10 holes, narrowed the gap down to just two with two holes to go. A missed putt on 17th ended his hopes despite ...

FIFA has shortlisted Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for the 2009 World Footballer of the Year award. The world football ruling body published the names of 23 shortlisted players on Friday.
 
Ronaldo was the winner of the prestigious prize last year who joined Real Madrid in summer from ...

Marat Safin crushed Denis Istomin to enter the St Petersburg Open semi-finals on Friday. Safin defeated Denis Istomin by 6-0, 7-6.
 
Safin won the first set in less than 25 minutes .He took a 2-0 lead in the second against 101st-ranked Uzbek.
 
The 29-year-old Russian, who has ...

Top seed Marin Cilic moved into the semi-finals of the Austria Tennis Trophy. The Croatian eased into the semi-finals with a 6-1, 6-4 win over former champion Feliciano Lopez on Friday.
 
The Beijing finalist Cilic played against Novak Djokovic and hopes to make a place in the season-ending ...

Jelena Jankovic of Serbia registered a 6-2, 6-2 straight set win over Caroline Wozniacki to advance into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships.
 
From 2-2 in the first set Wozniacki broke back once late in the second set but eventually lost the match. The US Open finalist must now wait ...

Somdev Devvarman’s ATP Challenger campaign at Seoul ended as he lost his quarterfinal match to Dusan Lojda of Czech Republic. The unseeded Lojda defeated the fourth seed Indian by 4-6, 2-6 at the USD 125,000 hard court event.
 
With Somdev's defeat, Indian challenge has ended in the ...

Mikhail Youzhny had to retire midway during his second round encounter at St Petersburg Open on Thursday due to back injury. He was playing against Denis Istomin.
 
Top seed Mikhail Youzhny after winning his first Kremlin Cup title on Sunday, took a medical timeout after losing the first set ...

Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia made it into the quarters of Lyon Grand Prix on Thursday. He had a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over German Nicolas Kiefer.
 
Ljubicic, The 2001 Lyon champion, Ljubicic, served 27 aces and broke his opponent twice .Ljubicic will next meet Frenchman Florent Serra in ...

Top seed Marin Cilic advanced into the quarter-finals of Austria Tennis Trophy on Thursday.He outclassed German Daniel Brands by 7-6 (9/7), 6-4. Marin Cilic is most likely to make it into the next month's season-ending ATP final with his quarter-final entry in Vienna.
 
Cilic is among the ...

World number one Serena Williams earned an easy win over Elena Dementieva to make it into the semi-finals of the WTA Championships on Thursday.
 
Serena's 6-2, 6-4 victory completed a 100 percent record for the American in Maroon Group and confirmed her as the first player through to the ...

Caroline Wozniacki overcame Vera Zvonareva to reach the WTA Championships semi-finals on Thursday. She defeated the Russian by 6-0, 6-7 (3/7), 6-4.
 
Wozniacki ended the 2hr 48min match but ended with an injury in her left thigh, when she was just two points from victory.
 
The world ...

Serena Williams reclaimed her world number one spot as Dinara Safina pulled out from the Sony Ericsson Championship.
 
The tight race for the year-ending world number one ranking ended in sudden and dramatic fashion on Wednesday at the Sony Ericsson Championships when a tearful Dinara Safina ...