Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi rolled back the years as they rallied brilliantly to overcome the Canadian-Swiss combo of Frank Dancevic and Stanislas Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6 (8), 10-4 to enter the doubles second round in the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament here in the wee hours of Tuesday.

Former world top tennis players Andre Agassi and Marat Safin are set to to play exhibition matches in Taiwan this week and coach local players.

Kei Nishikori of Japan made nonsense of seeding and rankings as he flattened the highly-rated second seed Marin Cilic of Croatia 4-6, 7-6 (0), 6-2, en route to the second round of the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament here on Monday.

Murtuja Vahora claimed five wickets as Baroda shot out Karnataka for 107 on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy semifinal here Monday. But Karnataka came back strongly, reducing Baroda to 133 for eight.

John Isner won a re-run Monday of the longest tennis match ever played, defeating Frenchman Nicolas Mahut for a second time -- but taking almost 10 hours less to get the job done at the Hopman Cup mixed teams event.

Tomas Berdych may not set the tennis hearts aflutter, but a No.6 ranking will surely make the aficionados sit up and take notice.

They might as well be called Messengers of Peace as much as a top doubles combination in the making.

Holder Andy Roddick began with a no-drama 6-3, 6-2 victory against local Marinko Matosevic as the American second seed kicked off his title defence at the Brisbane International tennis Monday.

Andy Murray made up for under-done partner Laura Robson as the world number four pulled Britain back into 1-1 contention in their Hopman Cup tennis tie against Italy here Monday.

Dipika Pallikal Monday equalled the highest ranking ever achieved by an Indian women squash player.