The King of Clay Rafael Nadal defeated World No.1 Serb Novak Djokovic in straight sets 7-5, 6-3 to clinch his 6th Rome Masters title. Nadal will now overtake Roger Federer as the World No.2 in the ATP World tour rankings. This win means that Nadal now has  a record twenty-one ATP 1000 Masters titles , one ahead of Roger Federer who had won his 20th Masters title at the Madrid Masters last week.

  The Spaniard has now beaten Djokovic twice after having suffered seven straight losses to him, the last one of them coming in the final of Australian Open 2012 . With Roland Garros 2012 just less than a week away , this win will surely give a confidence boost to the six time French Open Champion.

          The Prince of Pakistan Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his Dutch partner Rojer Jean-Julien have won the Estoril Open men's doubles title by defeating  their Aussie-Spanish opponents Julian Knowle and David Marrero in a close match.

                  The duo triumphed in straight sets bagging a 7-5 7-5 win. This win now means that Aisam still has a chance of making it to the London Olympics 2012.

Playing without the number one seed Aisam ul Haq Qureshi who

had retired from the the Davis Cup tie due to knee injury, Pakistan

lost their singles, reverse singles and doubles matches in straight 

sets in a rather humiliating display in Manila.

Arcilla took home the first victory for the Philippines after defeating Aqeel Khan 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 on  Friday.Treat Huey made it 2-0 for the Philippines after routing Yasir, 6-1, 6-0 and 6-3, in the other singles match. Huey and partner Rube Gonzales then increased the Philippines’ lead to 3-0 after they vanquished the Pakistani tandem of Aqeel Khan

and Jalil Khan, 6-1, 6-4 and 6-2, in their doubles encounter. 

Finally, Francis Alcantara trounced Muhammad Abid, 6-2, 6-1, and Johnny Arcilla defeated Yasir Khan, 6-3, 6-4 in the reverse singles to complete the sweep 5-0 for the Philippines ending all Davis Cup dreams for

Pakistan.

• Nadal resigns as the Vice-president of the ATP players council.
• Aisam pulls out of Davis Cup citing knee injury.
• Radwanska stuns Sharapova to claim Miami title.

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                                                          Dubai --  World No. 3 Roger Federer won his fifth Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title in the 20th edition of the ATP World Tour 500 hard-court tennis tournament. The Swiss defeated No. 4 Andy Murray 7-5, 6-4 in the final on Saturday evening.

The 30-year-old Federer has won the title five times in 10 years, having previously triumphed in 2003-2005 and 2007. He also finished runner-up in 2006 against Rafa Nadal, and lost to Novak Djokovic in last year’s final.

DUBAI -- The 16-time Grandslam Champion and considered by many to be the greatest tennis player ever gave his first ever interview to a Pakistani news channel on Tuesday . 

The Swiss Maestro Roger Federer has thanked all the Pakistanis supporters and he hopes to meet them in Pakistan soon. Roger Federer was talking to Altamash Jiva on Geo News.

Federer also said that if he would have played cricket he would have been a batsman.  He also said that he has met with India’s Sachin Tendulkar and Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath but is yet to meet any Pakistani cricketer .

Roger Federer who was beaten by Pakistan’s tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq in doubles match in 2009 was giving this interview to Geo News .

Pakistani tennis super star, Aisam ul Haq has said that playing for Pakistan in the London Olympics this year is my first priority. ‘I will soon start winning with my new partner’, he added yesterday in Karachi.

Aisam is all set to launch his autobiography, in Karachi and Lahore simultaneously after the French Open. He was talking to the media in Karachi Press Club yesterday.

‘I tasted success consistently with Rohan Bopanna, now my focus is back towards winning with my new partner.’ Aisam played the pre-Quarter Final’s at the recently concluded Australian Open.

MELBOURNE, Australia : Defending Champion Novak Djokovic and 2011 Australian Open finalist Andy Murray have managed to make their way to the semi-finals of the Australian Open 2012 . Both, Murray and Djokovic had to fight extremely hard to turn down their opponents. But they successfully stood up to the challenge and ensured their spots in the Open's semis.

[4] A Murray (GBR) def. [24] K Nishikori (JPN)

If it's possible to be relaxed and vulnerable at the same time, Andy Murray was that tennis beast on a mild afternoon on Rod Laver Arena as he booked his third consecutive semi-final place in the Australian Open  with a straight sets win over the promising Japanese player Kei Nishikori.

(KheloPakistan Sports Desk) - Pakistani tennis star, Aisam ul Haq has reached the Quarter Final of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open.

Earlier he faced defeat in the 3^rd round of the Men’s double tournament. Aisam and his partner, Jean-Julien Rojer were defeated by the American-Brazilian duo of Eric Butorac and Bruno Soares.

The match ended in quickly with Aisam’s opponent defeating the Pakistani and his partner by 6-4, 6-2.

In mixed-doubles play, Aisam and Czech Republic’s Andrea Lavakova defeated the pair of Jelena Jankovic and Bernard Tomic in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3.

(From KheloPakistan Sports Desk) - Aisam ul Haq Qureshi, Pakistan’s sole hope at the Australian Open Tennis tournament has reached the third round, with his partner Jean-Julien Rojer. The pair defeated Philip Marks and Adil Shams 6-4, 6-7 in the second round. They will face American-Brazilian pair of Eric Butorac and Bruno Soares in the next round.

In a tough fight between the 2 pairs, the Pakistani sensation and his partner finally prevailed over Philip and Adil Shamsuddin which came down to a tie-breaker in the second test.

In mixed-doubles play, Aisam and Czech Republic’s Andrea Lavakova have also qualified for the second round of the tournament. In their opening match, the pair defeated host Australian’s 6-3, 6-1 to successfully advance to the 2^nd round.