India

The ATP today has unveiled its 2006 calendar, comprising 64 tournaments in 31 countries.

Totals Sports Asia Ltd has confirmed that Michael Payne of Formula One Management will be one of the key speakers at their forthcoming Sports Xchange forum at the Hyatt Hotel in Singapore on July 4, 2005.

Ma Guo Li, president of CCTV Sports, has been confirmed as a headline speaker at Sport Xchange to be held in Singapore on July 4.

Real Madrid footballer Luis Figo is one of the owners of the Portuguese motor racing team which will compete in the new A1 Grand Prix series.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has avoided scheduling matches close to the Afghan border for security reasons in a proposed itinerary for England's tour sent to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

Vietnam will stage an ATP-level professional men’s tennis tournament this year for the first time in history.

ICC President Ehsan Mani has supported a call from Adolf Ogi, the former President of Switzerland and current United Nations Special Advisor of the Secretary General on Sport for Development and Peace, for the international sports community to work together to address humanitarian issues.

Plans to make England’s rugby Premiership a closed shop are back on the drawing board and have the support of the influential Club England policy making group, according to reports in The Times.

Sri Lanka’s tour of India for five one-day internationals has been postponed.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is yet to receive undertakings it is seeking concerning tax issues that are acting as a barrier to the staging of ICC events in India.

IEC can now boast five Asian Championships in Olympic sports ahead of SPORTELAsia.

With less than a week to go before SPORTELAsia 2005, all floor space has been sold and more than 250 companies from 41 countries worldwide have registered for the market.

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) has announced that Total Sports Asia (TSA), Asia’s leading integrated sports marketing company, will be the exclusive Asian television rights distributor for the US Open.

Extreme Entertainment, the worlds leading distributor of Action Sports programming, has added Sports Italia to its list of Extreme Sports Channel ‘Branded Block’ clients.

TWI (UK) Ltd had been awarded production rights for the upcoming historic India v Pakistan Test series by the Board for Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

This weekend’s World Group first round ties in the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas are set for worldwide television exposure.