ATP Challenger Tour

He was struggling from the beginning of the tournament with a knee problem – He also loses the No.1 position in the world ranking to the Italian Yannick Sinner

ROME - Serbian tennis player Hamad Medjedovic is through to the main draw of the Rome Masters tournament after a 6-1, 6-4 win over American J J Wolf in the final qualifying round on Tuesday.

Medjedovic won after just an hour and 15 minutes of play.

The name of his opponent in the first round of the tournament is yet to be announced.

She beat Zoe Hives of Australia, 6-1, 6-4

The men's tennis team of Romania is leading the Morocco team 4-0, in the 2nd round of Group II, Europe-Africa zone of the Davis Cup, at the Polyvalent Hall in western Cluj-Napoca, on Sunday, after Dragos Dima won to Soufiane El Mesbahi 6-0 6-4.

Dima (25 y/o, ATP #419) defeated El Mesbahi (17 y/o, ATP #1533) in only 61 minutes.

Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas has conquered his first ATP Challenger singles title, winning Sunday's final at the AON Open Challenger Memorial Giorgio Messina in Genova.

The 19-year-old prevailed over Spanish veteran Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-5, 7-6 in 1 hour and 49 minutes.

Bulgaria's top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov earned a categorical victory 6:2, 6:1 against Yuichi Sugita of Japan in the Masters tennis tournament in Cincinnati, USA, bTV reported.

It took Dimitrov 52 minutes to win the match. Yuichi Sugita, 28, is 46th in the ATP rankings.

Grigor Dimitrov has thus reached the semi-finals in the tournament.

BANGKOK - Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic is through to the quarter-finals of the Bangkok 2 ATP challenger tournament after beating Sadio Doumbia of France 6-3, 6-1 early Wednesday.

It was a seventh consecutive win for the Serbian, who already won a challenger in Bangkok last week.

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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.

COMO - Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki win the trophy at the Citta di Como Challenger tournament in Como, Italy, as he defeated Irish player Louk Sorensen in the final match on Sunday, 2-0 (6-3, 6-2).

Romanian male tennis player Florin Mergea has advanced to the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event of the 598,260 US-dollar ATP Winston Salem Open tournament, in the US, teamed up with Portugal's Joao Sousa.