Tennis News

After reaching final at $75K Nashville Challenger as expected Somdev Devvarman become India's No. 1 singles player with his best ranking of #201, Prakash Amritraj is on 2nd position with #214 ranking.

Ashutosh with Harsh reached doubles final in Nashville Challenger, that helps Ashutosh Singh to climb on his personal best doubles ranking of #169 and after long time Harsh is back inside top-200 doubles ranking, #200 ... Reaching doubles semi-final at Rimouski Challenger also helped Stephen and Prkarsh Amritraj ... Stephen Amritraj first-time enter into top-200 doubles ranking at #192 and Prkash is on #206.
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At Tennis Masters Cup 2008 (Doubles), Shanghai, China

On Monday, November 10, 2008
GOLD GROUP

Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)/ Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) 36 57
Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) bt Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 76(4) 57 10(4)

Bjorkman and Ullyett converted all 2 break point chances they recieved and managed to save all 3 break point opportunities on their own serves.

On Sunday, November 9, 2008
RED GROUP 

Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Jeff Coetzee (RSA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 62 63
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) bt Luis Horna (PER)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) 61 76(4)

In this match Hesh and Mark converted all 3 break point opportunities to score easy victory ... Bryans also started positively in same group.
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At $50K Champaign Challenger, Illinois, USA

[Q1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,201) l Lester Cook (USA,) 36 46

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,214) vs Qualifier

Somi lost due to poor planning from Champaign organisers ... He traveled 6+ hours (375 miles) from Nashville to reach Champaign and play almost immediately.