Dusan Lajovic

INDIAN WELLS - Serbian tennis player Dusan Lajovic is through to the second round of the Indian Wells ATP tournament after beating Slovak Lukas Lacko 6-4, 6-4 on Friday.

Lajovic, who won after 84 minutes of play, will next face South Korean Hyeon Chung, who was seeded in the first round.

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BELGRADE - Serbia will be without Novak Djokovic, Viktor Troicki and Filip Krajinovic - its three highest-ranking male tennis players - in the Davis Cup World Group Round 1 tie against the United States, head coach Nenad Zimonjic announced on Tuesday.

France defeated Serbia to win a place in the Davis Cup tennis tournament finals and will face Belgium, which topped Australia to enter the championship match.

France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga clinched his team's victory by beating Dusan Lajovic by a score of 2-6 6-2 7-6(5) 6-2 on September 17 before 18,000 spectators in Lille.

KITZBUHEL - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic is out of the Kitzbuhel ATP World Tour 250 series tennis tournament after losing 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) to German Philipp Kohlschreiber in a dramatic quarter-final.

Kohlschreiber, who won after two and a half hours of play, is now 2-0 head-to-head against the Serbian.

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ISTANBUL - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic has failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the Istanbul ATP tennis tournament after losing to Diego Schwartzman 7-5, 6-2 on Friday.

The third-seeded Argentine won after an hour and a half of play.

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ISTANBUL - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic is through to the quarter-finals of the Istanbul ATP tennis tournament after beating Russia's Mikhail Yuzhny 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 on Thursday.

In a bid to qualify for the semi-finals, the Serbian, who won after nearly two hours, will face Diego Schwartzman of Argentina.

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ISTANBUL - The all-Serbian duo of Viktor Troicki and Dusan Lajovic on Wednesday lost 4-6, 7-5, 10-4 to the Turkish-Italian pairing of Tuna Altuna and Alessandro Motti in the opening round of the men's doubles event at the ATP tennis tournament in Istanbul.

ISTANBUL - Serbia's Dusan Lajovic beat Croat Borna Coric 6-3, 6-7 (1-7), 7-5 at the ATP tournament in Istanbul on Tuesday, rounding off a great day for Serbian players at the event.

Lajovic defeated the seventh-seeded opponent in the opening round after two hours and 43 minutes of play.

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Serbia's national tennis team is through to the Davis Cup semifinals after beating Spain 4-1 in Belgrade at the weekend.

Albert Ramos Vinolas beat Nenad Zimonjic 6-2, 6-1 on Sunday in the last singles match of the tie.

BELGRADE - Serbia's top-ranked male tennis player Novak Djokovic will lead the national team in the Davis Cup quarter-final against Spain, player/head coach Nenad Zimonjic announced on Tuesday.

Besides world number 2 Djokovic and Zimonjic, who is world doubles number 56, the Serbian team includes world number 38 Viktor Troicki and world number 85 Dusan Lajovic.