Kashyap Parupalli beat World No. 11 Vietnamese shuttler Tien Minh Nguyen in straight games of 21-9, 21-14 to advance to the round of 16 of the Men's Singles event at the London Olympics. Kashyap won his match in 39 minutes and thus topped Group D.

The match started off as a neck-to-neck contest with the score reading 6-5 in the favour of the Indian before Kashyap began to pull away thanks to his well-placed drops and powerful smashes. Soon he earned an 11 point lead at 20-9 before pocketing the set. In the second set, Nguyen put up a better fight as the scores went up to 7-7 but later he had to bow down to Kashyap's excellent work at the net and steady shots from the back.

The Indian tennis contingent kicked off their Wimbledon campaign in fine style today with the 13th seeded pairing of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands recording a comfortably 6-4, 6-2 win in their first round encounter with the scratch pairing of Alla Kudryavtseva and Sloane Stephens.

The first set was closely contested, with the Mirza / Mattek-Sands pairing saving 5 of 6 break points and taking 2 of the 3 chances that came theri way to sneak away with the opening set. The second set was a considerably easier affair with the experienced duo running away with it 6-2 in 40 minutes.

The old firm of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi helped India keep their slender hopes of retaining a place in the Davis Cup World Group alive with a routine straight sets win over the Brazilian pairing of Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the doubles rubber on Saturday. Leander & Mahesh had to battle hard to win the first couple of sets against the Brazilians, who team up regularly on the ATP Tour, before cruising through in the third to wrap up a 6-4. 7-6, 6-1 win in a little over 2 hours.

India lost both the opening singles rubbers on Friday, with Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman on the wrong end of five set battles. That made this doubles contest a must win game for the Indian pair, a result they are quite used to achieving, having lost just twice in twenty six previous Davis Cup encounters. Paes was celebrating his 20th year of representing India in Tennis' greatest inter-nation event and the pair marked the occasion with a solid win.

The Indo - Pak Peace Express operating in tennis circles as Rohan Bopanna & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi may have fallen one station short of its desired destination, but was anything but derailed in the Men's Doubles Final of the US Open. The unheralded 30-year old's from the Indian sub-continent had spent the better part of their careers competing on the ITF Challenger circuit, and all the years of toil saw their desire to stay true to their dream almost rewarded as they walked on to one of the biggest tennis arena's in the world - Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Sadly for the 'rookie' duo they ran into the best doubles team of their generation - the Bryan brothers - and the now 3-times US Open champions remarked at the end of their amazing 7-6, 7-6 victory that they had just played the best match of their lives. Perhaps Bob was being a tad generous to his opponents at the post match conference, but there is no doubt that Qureshi and Bopanna stood toe-to-toe with the champions right through the contest. In the end it was the knowledge of how to play the big points better, which comes with experience of having played at this level, that made the difference.

The All American pairing of Bob Bryan & Liezel Huber won the US Open Mixed Doubles title on Friday defeating the Pakistani - Czech pairing of Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi & Kveta Peschke in the final 6-4, 6-4.

34-year old Huber was the star of the show, mixing up her serve well, showing great hands at the net and using all of her experience to capture her 8th Grand Slam doubles title and 2nd Mixed title. Her only other mixed major win also came alongside Bob Bryan when the pair won the French Open title back in 2009. This was the 15th Grand Slam doubles title for the left-handed Bryan, and his 7th Mixed Doubles title.

Leander Paes wrote another chapter in the annals of Indian tennis folklore by joining co-legend Mahesh Bhupathi at the top of the charts of Grand Slam glory by winning his 11th Doubles title at the 2010 Australian Open playing alongside Zimbabwean Cara Black. The pair of Paes and Black, top seeds at the Open, were far too good for the scratch team of Jaroslav Levinsky and Ekaterina Makarova, playing in their first ever Grand Slam final.

After winning a tight first set 7-5 the 2008 US Open champions cruised through the second 6-3 to end their long awaited wait for a second career slam together. Having lost back-to-back finals in 2009 at Wimbledon and the US Open, the pair of Paes and Black eventually proved third time lucky.

Daniel Nestor (Toronto) and his Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic narrowly missed adding to their trophy case, losing the Australian Open final on Saturday night with a 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-3 defeat at the hands of American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan.

Nestor and Zimonjic let the match slip away in the third set, despite being ahead 30-0 on serve at 1-2. The Bryans  earned five consecutive points to steal the first break in the final frame. They held serve for the remainder of the match and a slicing serve by Bob Bryan gave the American brothers their fourth Australian Open title and eighth  Grand Slam.