Victor Hanescu

Romania's tennis player Adrian Ungur, 30, advanced to the second round of the men's single event at the 106,500-euro Caltanissetta ATP Challenger 2015 tournament in Italy after defeating French Maxime Hamou, 20, on Monday, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Ungur, ranked 193rd in the ATP ranking, needed two hours and ten minutes to defeat number 232 in the world's ranking.

Retired three-time world champion runner Gabriela Szabo, retired artistic gymnast Andreea Raducan, a multiple gold medallist, and tennis player Victor Hanescu are among the public figures to participate in the Wings for Life World Run, a sports event with charitable purposes to be staged on May 3 in Bucharest, organisers report.

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Romanian Horia Tecau and Dutchman Jean-Julien Rojer won the doubles competition of the ATP Valencia Open, defeating the pair Kevin Anderson (South Africa) / Jeremy Chardy (France) 6-4, 6-2 in the Sunday final.

CORTINA - Serbia's tennis player Viktor Troicki clinched two victories in just one day, after outplaying Victor Hanescu of Romania and compatriot Boris Pasanski 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-4) at an ATP challenger in Cortina on Thursday and thus managed to get into the quarterfinals.

For a place in the semis, Troicki will face Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain.

Turkey’s Marsel İlhan starts his Wimbledon campaign with a first round game against Denis Kudla of the United States today.

The 27-year-old player is having his second appearance in the first round of the men’s competition in tennis’ third Grand Slam. He overcame the qualifying round last week.

INDIAN WELLS - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic qualified for the round of sixteen of the Masters 1000 Seriesin Indian Wells.

World's second best tennis player beat Romania's Victor Hanescu, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2.

In the fight for the quarterfinal, Djokovic will cross rackets with Columbia's Alejandro Gonzalez who defeated Ivan Dodig of Croatia, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7-5).