Tennis News -
At French Open 2008,

[Q1] Sunitha Rao (IND,156) l Kristina Barrois (GER,202) 62 67(3) 26

This time Sania is not playing in French Open … So frankly lots of glamour lost from French open for we, Indian fans, and also for international fans.

Only Sunitha Rao participated in singles qualifying … Poor loss considering Sunitha's preparation before French open ... This was winnable match after good start but still somehow Sunitha managed to lose this match and with that our singles challenge is over in Men's and Women's section before it started ... Hopefully in 2009 French Open we will see atleast Sania and Somdev in maindraw.
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At $50K New Delhi Challenger-II, India (Hard)

Singles Second Round -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,78) bt Peng Sun (CHN,457) 64 61
(5) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,149) bt (Q) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,984) 63 75

(3) Kristian Pless (DEN,124) vs Guillermo Alcaide (ESP,421) 67(5) 64
Thomas Oger (FRA,283) bt Samuel Groth (AUS,310) 63 62

(8) Ricardo Mello (BRA,213) bt Colin Ebelthite (AUS,222) 62 76(2)
(4) Go Soeda (JPN,132) bt (WC) Ashutosh Singh (IND,567) 62 36 63

(7) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,211) bt Adam Feeney (AUS,270) 75 64
(2) Gilles Muller (LUX,126) bt Rajeev Ram (USA,282) 63 36 76(5)

Doubles Quarter-Finals -
(1) Brendan Evans (USA)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt Go Soeda (JPN)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) 76(6) 76(2)
(4) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt Lars Elvström (DEN)/ Kristian Pless (DEN) 62 61

Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (3) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Thomas Oger (FRA) 46 76 10(8)
(2) Adam Feeney (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Kamala Kannan (IND) 61 61

In singles good fighting performance by Ashutosh and Rajeev against top-150 players ... Vishnu also showed decent performance against Aisam.

In doubles, performing as per their top 2 ranking Mustafa and Purav won their matches with their partners ... But Harsh and Ashutosh scored huge upset beating 3rd seed French pair in super-tiebreak.