Kodava people

Paris – Slovenia’s best tennis player, Tamara Zidanšek, is out of the competition at the French Open after being knocked out by Jessica Pegula of the US in the third round of the singles competition and then going on to be eliminated in the doubles as well.

The pair made up of Romanian tennis player Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna has qualified on Thursday for the men's doubles semifinals of the 1,574,640 euro ATP tournament on the grass court of Halle (Germany), after defeating the couple made of Marin Draganja (Croatia)/Henri Kontinen (Finland), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3).

Romanian Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna defeated Czech Lukas Rosol and Ukrainian Sergey Stakhovsky 2-6, 6-4, 10-8 on Tuesday to qualify to the doubles quarterfinals of the 1,574,640 euros ATP tournament of Halle (Germany).

Romanian-Slovenian pair formed by Horia Tecau and Katarina Srebotnik has qualified for the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event of the Roland Garros tournament, the second Grand Slam tournament of the year, on Saturday, after defeating Indian-Swiss pair Leander Paes/Martina Hingis, seeded eighth in the event, by 6-7 (6), 6-3, 10-6.

Romanians Marius Copil and Adrian Ungur produced the day's surprise Thursday, defeating Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna in the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy doubles on the BNR Arenas of Bucharest and thus qualifying to the semifinal.

DUBAI - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistani player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi did not manage to win the title in the Dubai ATP in the men doubles category as they lost the final match on Saturday to India's Rohan Bopanna and Canada's Daniel Nestor, 6-4, 6-1.