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The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour draw ceremony took place Monday at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, and set up a potential third-round clash between the past two BNP Paribas Open singles champions – 2009 winner Vera Zvonareva and 2008 winner Ana Ivanovic.

Boris Becker has called for Tim Henman to save British tennis from the doldrums but refused to blame captain John Lloyd for the embarrassing Davis Cup defeat by Lithuania.

Lloyd is considering his future after becoming the first GB captain to lead the side to five successive defeats, which has left them on the verge of dropping into Europe/Africa Zone Group III, the lowest tier of the competition.

An absolutely packed field has assembled in Indian Wells for the $4.5-million BNP Paribas Open, the first of two back-to-back Premier tournaments on American hardcourts over the next month.

Three returning tournament players have committed to play in The MPS Group Championships, along with newcomer Lucie Safarova, in the tournament's return to Sawgrass Country Club April 5-11. The foursome joins the Ponte Vedra Beach field that boasts its 2009 champion and No. 3 in the world Caroline Wozniacki, and U.S. Open sensation Melanie Oudin.

Fed Cup captain Mary Joe Fernandez is "feeling pretty good" she'll have at least one of the

Former Davis Cup captain David Lloyd has called on Lawn Tennis Association chief Roger Draper to quit over the lack of home-grown male talent.

"Where are the male players that the LTA has actually produced? Zero. That's the bottom line," he said.

"How do you keep your job if you are failing? I think Roger should walk. I don't see it getting better."

Britain's Davis Cup team, captained by David's brother John, suffered a 3-2 loss to lowly Lithuania on Sunday.

Here's an updated look at the Top 20 players in the South African Airways 2010 ATP Rankings as of 8 March. The top eight players in the rankings as of 15 November qualify for the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London to be held 21-28 November. The ATP World Tour Champion will be named as the No. 1 player at the end of the season.

1. Roger Federer, Switzerland – Year in Review: For the second year in a row, the Swiss superstar enters March coming off an extended break after the Australian Open…

Kuznetsova grabs No. 1 seed in women's BNP Paribas

The women's draw for the BNP Paribas Open sets up a potential third-round meeting between the past two tournament champions here, 2009 winner Vera Zvonareva and 2008 champ Ana Ivanovic.

Svetlana Kuznetsova, who is ranked No. 3 in the world, is the top seed for the women's tournament that begins Wednesday, but tournament director Steve Simon said this draw is one of balance across the board.

The WTA Tour and Sony Ericsson announced a two year extension to their existing partnership that will see Sony Ericsson, one of the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers, become the lead global sponsor for the Tour through to the end of 2012.

The partnership has taken women's tennis to new audiences through fusion of the sport with technology, fashion and music, enabling the Tour to lay the foundation for an unprecedented global growth of women's tennis.

Fernando Gonzalez dedicated Chile's first-round Davis Cup victory over Israel to his battered countrymen, saying that he hoped the win brought earthquake victims 'small happiness'. Gonzalez booked Chile’s place in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Group with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 win over Dudi Sela to give the home nation an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the tie, which was delayed by one day due to the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated the country.