India's Rohan Bopanna and his partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan has won their maiden ATP title as the Indo-Pak duo clinched the men's doubles title in the South African Open at Johannesburg.

Rohan-Qureshi has defeated Slovakian Karol Beck and Harold Levy of Israel 2-6 6-3 10-5 in the final at the Montecasino Outdoor Arena. The Indo-Pak pair lost the first set but came back strongly in the second set and clinched the match by winning last two sets.

India's no 1 Somdev Devvarman has moved up 21 spots to be at the 141st place in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings for men's singles released on Monday.

Somdev had made into the quarterfinals of the recently concluded South Africa Open at the Johannesburg. Somdev had defeated Xavier Malisse in his sojourn to the South Africa Open quarters.

London, Feb 7 : Tennis superstar Serena Williams desperately wants to have kids with her rapper/actor boyfriend Common.

However, Williams is not sure if she’ll be a responsible mother as she once accidentally left her pet pooch behind after a training session on the tennis court, reports The Daily Star.

She says, "I would love to have a baby... But I have two little dogs I take care of and they''re so cute, but sometimes I forget them. One time I was in the locker room... I was busy and I left and I was in the car driving home and I was like, ''Oops!'' I definitely don''t need any kids because I forgot my dog."

India has qualified to the Group-I of the Fed Cup as India dumped Malaysia 3-0 in Group A of the Asia/Oceanic Group II of the Fed Cup in Kuala Lumpur.

India dominated in all three matches against Malaysia including two singles and one doubles match as they won all matches without even losing a single set.

Poojashree Venkatesha gave India 1-0 lead as India’s no. 2 outplayed Chin-Bee Khoo in straight sets by 6-1, 6-1. Sania Mirza extended the lead to 2-0 after she thrashed Jawairiah Noordin 6-1
6-1 in the second women’s singles match.

The draw of the Fed Cup is released on Tuesday and India is placed in the Pool A of the Asia-Oceania Group-II along with Singapore and Malaysia.

India will start their campaign in the Fed Cup with match against Singapore on Thursday followed by Malaysia on Friday at the National Tennis Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

The winners of Pool A and Pool B will face each other in the play-off tie and the victorious team will be promoted to Group-I. India was demoted to Group-II last year after Indian women had gone down to Chinese Taipei 0-3.

It was party time for Roger Federer who couldn't help but savor over his first Grand Slam victory as a father but already looking forward to the defend his French Open crown. Federer partied until dawn in Melbourne on Monday and enjoyed drinking champagne too.

The 28-year-old Swiss was able to extend his record to 16 major titles along with dashing British hopes of a first men's Grand Slam champion in 74 years, after defeating Andy Murray in the Australian Open final.

The father of six-month old twin girls feels that there is still lot for him to prove on the tour.

Leander Paes was able to win yet another notable title, as at last, Sunday's Australian Open mixed doubles triumph aided him catch up with Mahesh Bhupathi's record of 11 Grand Slam crowns.

But as per Peas, helping Cara complete a Grand Slam in mixed doubles gave him the most satisfaction after he and Cara Black overpowered the unseeded Jaroslav Levinsky and Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-3 in 68 minutes.

He explained, "She had won the other three and we had talked about the missing one during the course of this fortnight. She was a bit nervous at the start of the final."

India's Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black have won the mixed doubles title in the Australian Open after defeating Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and  Jaroslav Levinsky of Czech Republic on Sunday.

The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair registered straight set victory over the unseeded pair of Ekaterina and Jaroslav 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and eight minutes in the final to win their second Grand Slam title at the Melbourne Park.

India's Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black have entered into the final of the mixed doubles event of the first grand slam of the year, Australian Open at the Melbourne Park on Friday.

The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair survived from scare of Lisa Raymond of United States and Wesley Moodie of South Africa as Paes-Cara ousted their opponents 6-7 (6/8) 7-6 (7/5) 10-7 in the semifinal.

India’s Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black have made into the quarterfinal of the mixed doubles event of the first grand slam of the year, Australian open at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne on Monday.

The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair thrashed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova and Rik De Voest of South Africa in straight sets 6-4 6-2 in the second round to move to quarterfinals for the sixth time in last eight grand slam events.

The Indian pair of Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj has advanced into the second round of the men’ doubles event of the first grand slam of the year Australian Open at the Melbourne Park on Wednesday.

The Indian duo survived from scare of James Cerretani and Travis Rettenmaier of America as they ousted their opponents in a three setter match 5-7 6-4 7-5 in the first round of men’s doubles event.

Somdev-Prakash will now lock horns with the winner of the first round match between eleventh seeded pair of Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Australian Paul Hanley and Brazilian Marcos Daniel and Daniel Koellerer of Australia.

The draw of the qualifying round of the first Grand Slam of the year Australian Open, starting from 18th January at Melbourne Park, has been released in Melbourne on Tuesday.

India’s no 1 Somdev Devvarman will face local James Duckworth in the first round of the men’s singles event of qualifying round of Australian Open. Somdev, world no. 161, will have easy outing against world no 1712 James in the opening round.

India’s no 1 Somdev Devvarman has dropped 35 places to be at the 161th place in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings for men’s singles category released on Monday.

The 24-year old Somdev had crashed out from the Chennai Open in the starting phase, which results him into slid in the world rankings. Somdev was ousted by Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia in the second round last week.

Chennai, Jan 10 : The Indian presence in the $400,000 ATP Aircel Chennai Open tennis tournament ended here Saturday with the exit of the scratch combination of Somdev Devvarman and Sanam Singh in the semi-finals of the men's doubles.

The Indian wildcard pairing went down 3-6, 6-4, 5-10 to Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) and Yen-Hsun Lu (Taipei).

On Friday night, third seeded Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna lost to the British pair of Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski 6-3, 3-6, 2-10 in the quarter-finals of the same event. (IANS)

Chennai, Jan 9 : Defending champion Marin Cilic of Croatia maintained his unbeaten run against Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic with a polished 6-1, 6-3 win to enter the final of the $400,000 ATP Aircel Chennai Open tennis tournament here Saturday.

The 21-year old Cilic, ranked 14th and seeded second here, had won all the three previous meetings with Tipsarevic and looked well set to retain the title as he awaits the winner of the second semi-final between Dudi Sela and Stanislas Wawrinka.

The 25-year-old 38th-ranked Tipsarevic, who had lost to Cilic in the quarter-finals here last year, yielded ground to a far superior opponent who served consistently well and had more ammunition in his armoury.

Auckland, Jan 9 : Belgian Yanina Wickmayer Saturday won the ABS Classic title to continue her emergence from the shadow of celebrated compatriots Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin.

With that high-profile pair of former number one players - both engaged in comebacks to tennis following retirement - US Open semi-finalist Wickmayer blazed her own trail with a 6-3, 6-2 defeat of top seed Flavia Pennetta to earn the Auckland title.

The third-seeded Wickmayer claimed the third title of her career dating back just over eight months.

"This week will stay in my heart and my soul for the rest of my life," she said. "I'm just really happy to bring this trophy home. It's the most important one till now.

Perth, Jan 9 : Tommy Robredo and Maria-Jose Martinez Sanchez paced Spain to a third Hopman Cup title Saturday with a 2-1 victory over Britain.

Robredo, who played on the 2002 Spanish side which also lifted the trophy at the mixed team event, sent a return winner down the line to clinch the week's work in the concluding mixed doubles rubber.

The 27-year-old old - only man to be ranked inside the top 20 in both singles and doubles - improved his record at the event to 21-6.

Overall victory on third match point of the wrap-up rubber was added to the first Spanish triumph in 1990 along with that of eight years ago.

The world no 14, Marin Cilic of Croatia and third seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Sweden have advanced into the semifinals of the men’s singles event of the USD 40,000 Aircel Chennai Open after winning their respective quarterfinal matches on Friday.

The second seeded Cilic defeated Colombian Santiago Giraldo in straight sets by 7-6 6-1 in one hour and thirty-eight minutes. Cilic was trailing by 4-1 in the first set but he came back strongly to clinch the first set after it went to tie-breaker.

Chennai, Jan 9 : Stanislas Wawrinka unleashed a flurry of classy shots at the right moments to beat Michael Berrer 7-6 (5), 6-4 and set up a semi-final meeting with Dudi Sela in the USD 400,000 ATP Aircel Chennai Open tennis tournament here Friday.

Sela, the fifth seed from Israel, was stretched but hung on to put out a fighting Lukas Lacko of Slovakia 7-6 (3), 7-5 in the quarter-finals.

Also through to the semi-finals was third seed Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia who overcame Thiemo De Bakker (Netherlands) 7-5, 7-5 and will meet the winner of the Marin Cilic (second seed) vs Santiago Giraldo (Colombia).

Chennai, Jan 8 : Sharp showers delayed the start of matches in the $400,000 ATP Aircel Chennai Open tournament here Friday.

Spells of rain early afternoon followed by steady drizzle delayed the 5 p. m. start, but organisers were hopeful of getting some play on court.

More showers are forecast for the weekend and Monday, thus putting the tournament schedule in jeopardy, though, as yet, officials were unwilling to make any statement on the fate of India's only ATP event beyond stating that mopping up equipment was in readiness.(IANS)