Ireland's James McGee has lost his first round match at the US Open in New York.

Ireland’s James McGee makes his grand slam debut against Kazakh Aleksandr Nedovyesov at the US Open today after brilliantly fighting his way through qualifying.

Ireland’s James McGee defied cramp and missed opportunities to defeat Zhang Ze and qualify for the main draw of the US Open.

Tennis: Sam Barry will take a three week break to recharge his batteries after his semi-final exit in the Irish Men’s Open.

Ireland's James McGee has missed out on a place in this year's French Open after he lost his final round qualifier at Roland Garros today.

Ireland Davis Cup boss Garry Cahill will take considerable encouragement from Saturday’s excellent performance of his doubles pairing ahead of the relegation play-off against Egypt in Dublin on April 4-6.

The absence of James McGee, Louk Sorensen and Sam Barry was sorely felt as Ireland were left facing a 2-0 deficit yesterday after the opening two singles contests in the Davis Cup tie against Belarus in Minsk.

Battling James McGee agonisingly missed out on a place in the final of the ATP Challenger Tour event in New Caledonia in the Pacific after coming up short in a marathon three-setter.

The Drummy family had cause for major celebration after collecting three titles in the William Fry National Junior Championships, at Fitzwilliam LTC on Saturday.

Irish fans were stunned into silence last night as a double fault from James McGee gifted the opening singles rubber to Finland in the Davis Cup second round tie at Castleknock.

Castleknock’s James McGee was beaten by Great Britain’s Josh Goodall in the men’s semi-finals at the FBD Men’s Irish Open yesterday at Fitzwilliam TC in Dublin.

James McGee yesterday rose to the challenge of standing in for Louk Sorensen in the opening singles rubber of the Davis Cup showdown between Hungary and Ireland in Hungary, scoring a 4-6 6-3 6-4 6-7 (7/9) 6-4 victory over his 316-ranked opponent.

IRELAND’S James McGee yesterday powered into the semi-finals of the ITF Men’s Futures event in Cordoba, Spain.

JAMES McGEE yesterday battled back from the precipice of a semi-final exit to pull off a remarkable victory in the Green Property Irish Men’s Open at the Fitzwilliam Club.

THE form book meant nothing as Dublin duo James Cluskey and Barry King turned on the style on the second day of the Green Property Irish Men’s Open at the Fitzwilliam Club.

THE home fans came along to see Wimbledon hero Conor Niland in Davis Cup action and weren’t disappointed.

CONOR NILAND is to devote his focus to Ireland’s Davis Cup clash with Tunisia in Dublin next month in following his Wimbledon heartbreak.

Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has filed a $15m (€11.4m) lawsuit against a newspaper after it published a story citing WikiLeaks cables alleging her involvement in illegal diamond deals.

DUBLIN’S James McGee has kept alive hopes of a home success by clinching a semi-final place in the Green Property Irish Men’s Open.

DAVIS CUP ace Colin O’Brien must overcome the son of a tennis icon to nail down a semi-final place in the Green Property Irish Men’s Open.

IRELAND Davis Cup supremo Sean Sorensen insisted that Conor Niland lacked nothing in determination during his crushing shock singles defeat by Laurynas Grigelis.

LITHUANIA yesterday unleashed a strong verbal volley ahead of this weekend’s Davis Cup showdown with Ireland in Dublin.

LOUK SORENSEN was brought back down to earth yesterday following his Australian Open heroics.

About 200 opposition supporters have sought refuge at the US embassy in Zimbabwe, the US ambassador said today.

President Robert Mugabe’s regime struck at his rivals only two weeks before Zimbabwe’s presidential run-off, twice detaining his challenger and jailing the number two opposition leader to face treason charges.

US and British diplomats were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe and a US Embassy staffer was beaten, said an embassy spokesman.

British and US diplomats were attacked as they tried to investigate political violence in Zimbabwe today in an operation blamed directly on president Robert Mugabe.

A convoy of British and US diplomats was attacked at gunpoint in Zimbabwe today, the US embassy said.

Assassination threats have derailed plans by Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to return home to campaign for the presidential runoff vote, a party official said today.

The UN warned today that post-election violence in Zimbabwe risked reaching a crisis as police stopped a convoy of ambassadors on a tour to investigate attacks on opposition supporters.

WIMBLEDON doubles champion in 2005, Wesley Moodie has confirmed his participation in the Shelbourne Men’s Irish Open tennis championships next month.

Cork's Paul Fitzgerald became an even hotter favourite to win this week's Danone Junior Tennis Championship of Ireland at the Fitzwilliam club when the second seed, Castleknock's James McGee, withdrew.

The €18,000 prizemoney put up by the sponsors Danone for this week’s Irish Masters Tennis Championship has captured the interest of the younger set.

Surprise results marked the penultimate stages of the Danone Irish Open Junior Tennis Championships at the Fitzwilliam club in Dublin yesterday.

LEADING Munster junior player, Cork’s Paul Fitzgerald, suffered a disappointing defeat to unseeded Morgan Dunne in the Irish Junior Open tennis championship quarter-finals at Fitzwilliam yesterday.

The pattern was very much one-sided during the second round matches in the Danône Irish Junior Open tennis championships at the Fitzwilliam club in Dublin yesterday.

Elsa Ó Riain will be hoping for better results at next week’s Women’s Irish Open Tennis Championships than at Templeogue last evening in the second round of the Leinster Open Championship.

Elsa Ó Riain put up a brave fight against Ireland’s number one player, Yvonne Doyle, before going down 6-1 4-6 6-4 in the final of the the Danone-sponsored National Tennis Championships at Donnybrook, Dublin on Saturday.

LIMERICK’S Conor Niland got a huge shock at the semi-final stage of the Danone-sponsored National Irish tennis championships at Donnybrook last evening.

The domestic tennis season is now in full swing with a series of Senior Open Tournaments scheduled right up to the end of season Danone Masters event (August 25-27) in Fitzwilliam.