Argentine Gaston Gaudio made a comfortable start to his French Open title defence by beating Frenchman Julien Benneteau 7-5, 6-0, 6-1 on Monday.
The Commonwealth champion was beaten by IM Adam Hunt of England in the first round of the British Chess Championship.
GMs Pendyala Harikrishna, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Abhijit Kunte are among other Indians in the fray at the British open.
Novak Djokovic scored a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 victory over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the Australian Open final.
The Indian shooter finished behind Ian Peel of Britain and Adam Vella of Australia, in the trap event in the shotgun World Cup.
Third seed Rainer Schuettler of Germany was the first casualty at the ATP Chennai Open.
Indian Davis Cupper and third seed Rohan Bopanna was beaten in straight sets in the first round of the ITF Futures tournament.\n\n
Surya Shekhar Ganguly finished second in the Gibeltelecom Masters International Open Chess tournament.
Grandmasters Jonathan Rowson and Vasilios Kotronias tied for the first place in the Hastings chess tournament.
The Indian GM beat Alexander Cherniaev of Russia in the eighth and penultimate round in the Hastings Chess Congress.
The Indian Grandmaster was held to a draw by International Master Daniel Gormally of England in the seventh round of the 10-player Hastings chess tournament.
Grandmaster Vladimir Epishin emerged sole leader in the Hastings chess tournament.
The Indian Grandmaster drew with GM Jonathan Rowson of Scotland in the second round of the Hastings International Chess Congress.
In a disappointing year for Indian shooters, Double Trap shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore stood out, booking an Olympic berth.
The Champions League Group D match between Galatasaray of Turkey and Italy's Juventus, scheduled for next Tuesday in Istanbul, had been put back a week to December 2.
The defending champions will become the first team to qualify for next season's finals if they beat Cyprus and other results go their way on Saturday. \n\n\n\n
She needs two points from the next five rounds at the British chess championships to get the norm.
Scotland shocked World Cup finalists France 1-0 while England were held to a goalless draw by Macedonia.
France will virtually book their place in Portugal next year if they beat Israel on Wednesday.
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