Tennis News
At Tennis Masters Cup 2008 (Doubles), Shanghai, China

RED GROUP

Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 57 63 (4)10
Luis Horna (PER)/ Pablo Cuevas bt Jeff Coetzee (RSA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 62 67(2) 11(9)

I really hate ATP's stupid decision of using super tie-break in season ending tournament.
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At $50K Champaign Challenger, Illinois, USA

Doubles -
[Q1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (WC) Gd Jones (NZL)/ Connor Roth (USA) 64 26 10(6)
[Q1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van der Merwe (RSA) bt Ramon Delgado (PAR)/ Ivan Miranda (PER) 61 62

[Q2] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van der Merwe (RSA)

[R1] Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) vs (WC) Alex Kuznetsov (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA)
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Amer Delic (USA) vs Qualifier

Surprising to see same pair playing for final qualifying spot in doubles maindraw and their also they r facing another Indian player pairing.
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At $25K NECC- ITF Women's Tennis Championships, Pune, India

Melanie SOUTH (GBR) (1) bt Jade WINDLEY (GBR) 6-2 6-4
Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt Varatchaya WONGTEANCHAI (THA) 6-3 6-4
Alexandra KOLESNICHENKO (UZB) bt Hae-Sung KIM (KOR) 7-6(1) 6-2
Shalini SAHOO (IND) bt Nicole THYSSEN (NED) (7) 7-5 2-6 6-2
Ksenia PALKINA (KGZ) (4) bt Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) 6-3 7-5
Leonie MEKEL (NED) bt Kyra SHROFF (IND) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3
Korina PERKOVIC (GER) bt Sophie FERGUSON (AUS) 7-5 6-7(6) 6-3
Kai-Chen CHANG (TPE) (6) bt Julia PARASYUK (RUS) 6-4 6-7(4) 6-2
I-Hsuan HWANG (TPE) bt Liana-Gabriela UNGUR (ROU) (5) 6-2 7-5
Natasha KHAN (GBR) bt Florence HARING (FRA) 6-1 2-6 7-6(4)
Patrycja SANDUSKA (POL) bt Silvia DISDERI (ITA) 6-4 6-2
Bojana JOVANOVSKI (SRB) bt Agnes SZATMARI (ROU) (3) 6-3 6-4
Jing-Jing LU (CHN) (8) bt Jade CURTIS (GBR) 6-3 6-1
Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt Julia GLUSHKO (ISR) 6-3 6-1
Suchanun VIRATPRASERT (THA) bt Vivian SEGNINI (BRA) 6-4 6-2
Ye-Ra LEE (KOR) (2) bt Elora DABIJA (ROU) 6-3 6-3

Doubles -
DABIJA (ROU)/ JOVANOVSKI (SRB) bt SZATMARI (ROU)/ THYSSEN (NED) (1) 62 63
KHAN (GBR)/ WINDLEY (GBR) bt LERTCHEEWAKARN (THA)/ SHROFF (IND) 75 60
PARASYUK (RUS)/ PERKOVIC (GER) bt LEE (KOR)/ PALKINA (KGZ) (4) 64 62
MALOO (IND)/ VENKATESHA (IND) bt APPINENI (IND)/ BURMAN (IND) 64 62
CURTIS (GBR)/ WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) bt DISDERI (ITA)/ FERGUSON (AUS) W/O
LU (CHN)/ WONGTEANCHAI (THA) (3) bt HARING (FRA)/ MEKEL (NED) 46 60 10(6)
BHAMBRI (IND)/ CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt LAKHANI (IND)/ SEGNINI (BRA) 62 62
CHANG (TPE)/ HWANG (TPE) (2) bt MANOHAR (IND)/ VENKATARAMAN (IND) 61 61

Excellent victory by qualifier Shalini Sahoo against last week's future winner in 3 sets ... She is having good chance to move in to quarters against Uzbek ... Other hand Ankita having tough match against top-seed but we can expect some magic from her considering recent good form ... Isha facing 8th seed Chinese, she need to go deep in this tournament as Isha is defending heap of points as last year's finalist at same venue.