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In the new ATP rankings released on Monday, India's top singles-player Somdev Devvarman jumped 3-spots to 98, his best since 2011's career-best of 62. Also, Yuki Bhambri jumped 190-places to 287th rank. In the doubles, Paes-Stepanek ranked No.5 while Rohan Bopanna and Bhupati ranked 7 and 10 respectively with their partners. Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic managed to retain his numero-uno spot.

Serbian World No.1 Novak Djokovic has become the ninth player to mark his 100th week atop the ATP tennis rankings. Dojokovic, who first reached No.1 in July 2011, joined the likes of Agassi(101 weeks), Nadal(102) and Federer(302) by achieving the milestone. His bid to finish at No.1 for a third straight year is under serious threat this year from Nadal.

Sania Mirza and Cara Black clinched the Pan Pacific Open doubles crown on Saturday, overcoming a one-set deficit to defeat Chan and Huber 4-6,6-0,11-9 in the final. After the win at the Premier level event, Sania ecstatically tweeted, "#champions #yesss #wedidit #comeonnnnnn". This was Mirza's 4th title of the season, with a 3rd different partner, and 18th overall.

Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin beat the Briton-Australian combo(Jamie Murray, John Peers) with a 7-6 (5) 6-4 scoreline to lift the Japan Open Trophy. This was Rohan's second title of the season, first was in Feb-2013 at ATP 250 event in Marseille, France with British partner Colin Fleming. Also, he was runner-up in Rome Masters with Bhupathi.

On Saturday, in Beijing, Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black won the women's doubles title at the China Open by 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and six minutes by defeating Vera Dushevina and Arantxa Parra Santonja. Earlier in the semi-finals, the Indo-Zimbabwean pair had defeated the top seeded Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani of Italy.

Sania Mirza(26) has broken back into the top-10 of the world tennis women's doubles as per the WTA Rankings issued this Monday. She jumped two spots to stand at No.9 despite not playing any event since winning back-to-back titles in Tokyo and China, due to dropping points of other players. Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci remained jointly at No.1.

Tennis star Leander Paes, who got the Arjuna award in 1990, the Khel Ratna in 1997 and the Padma Shri in 2001, is the only personality chosen by Union sports ministry for Padma Bhushan this year. He would become only the second tennis player from the country to be bestowed the coveted award after Ramanathan Krishnan in 1967.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic won his third consecutive title at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, defeating Spain's David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2 in Saturday's final. Djokovic, who is the winner of six Grand Slam singles titles and is riding a wave of momentum that began at the end of last season, took the contest in just over two hours.

Indian duo Sanam Singh and Saketh Myneni won silver in men’s doubles tennis of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon on Monday. The fifth seeded Indians lost the hard-fought final in straight sets to the eighth seeded South Korea’s pair 5-7, 6-7(2) in an hour and 29 minutes. India now have collected four medals in tennis, including three bronze.

Indian duo Sania Mirza and Saketh Myneni grabbed gold in the tennis mixed doubles event of the 2014 Asian Games on Monday. The second seeds defeated the top-seeded Chinese Taipei of Hao Ching Chan and Hsien Yin Peng 6-4 6-3 in the final clash in only 69 minutes. With this medal India added 6th Gold in their account.

Novak Djokovic defeated Tomas Berdych 6-0 6-2 to win his fifth China Open crown on Sunday in Beijing while Maria Sharapova overcame Petra Kvitova in the women's final. Taking only 67 minutes to seal the win, Djokovic said, "This was probably the best performance in a final I ever had". Berdych admitted he had not experienced such a mauling before.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has been diagnosed appendicitis but has decided to play the Shanghai Masters this week. Doctors confirmed on Sunday that Nadal had the early stages of appendicitis. The second-seed Nadal said Tuesday, he chose to try treatment with antibiotics rather than undergo surgery right away. Nadal plays his opening match on Wednesday against Spanish Feliciano Lopez.

Roger Federer defeated Leonardo Mayer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (9/7) in a thrilling 2nd round match at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday. Rafael Nadal, meanwhile, lost to fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 7-6 (8/6). With this, world number three Federer will unseat 2nd placed Nadal in the ATP rankings. Federer will play 14th seed Roberto Bautista Agut on Thursday.

Roger Federer halted Novak Djokovic’s 28-match unbeaten run in China as the Swiss defeated the world No1 to book a place in the final of the Shanghai Masters. Federer, seeded third, defeated his Serbian rival 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 35 minutes to line up a meeting with Gilles Simon of France in Sunday’s final.

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer won his first Shanghai Masters title on Sunday by defeating France's Gilles Simon 7-6 (6), 7-6 (2) in a tight final. With this win, the 17-time Grand Slam winner captured his fourth title of the year. Federer will leap past Rafael Nadal to No. 2 in the ATP rankings on Monday.

The 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer is very excited to play in India. The Swiss tennis player is slated to play for the Indian Aces in the inaugural Mahesh Bhupathi's International Premier Tennis League from Dec 6 to 8. “For me going to India is like going to South America, like I felt in my initial years," Federer said.

The WTA (Women's Tennis Association) Tour has imposed a fine of $25,000 on Russian Tennis Federation President, Shamil Tarpischev, and suspended him from tour involvement for a year, for questioning Serena and Venus Williams' gender. US Tennis Association chairman, Dave Haggerty also called on Tarpischev to issue a formal apology to the sisters.

Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black clinched the WTA finals women's doubles title in Singapore on Sunday. The Indo-Zimbabwean pair thrashed the defending champions Peng Shuai of China and Hsieh Su-wei of Chinese Taipei by 6-1, 6-0 in the one-sided final clash to lift the trophy. The winning pair received $5 lakh in prize money.