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At $450K Chennai Open ATP Tennis Tournament, India (5th - 11th Jan 2009)

Doubles wildcards r announced ... Somdev Devvarman with Prakash Amritraj and Harsh Mankad with Yuki Bhambri recieved those wildcards ... Good choices by organisers though Ashutosh Singh's case was stronger partnering Harsh.
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These r 2008 year-end ranking of our top-10 players ... Hopefully in 2009 we will see better results from our players and more than 2 players in top-100 ranking.

ATP Singles Ranking as on 29th December 2008
204 Devvarman Somdev 206
210 Amritraj Prakash 196
333 Bopanna Rohan 104
565 Mankad Harsh 44
700 Sharan Divij 26
740 Rastogi Karan 23
767 Vardhan Vishnu 21
769 Gajjar Rohan 21
832 Virali Murugesan Ranjeet 16
845 Roy Rupesh 15

1156 Bhambri Yuki* 5

ATP Doubles Ranking as on 29th December 2008
6 Bhupathi Mahesh 3295
10 Paes Leander 2900
78 Bopanna Rohan 860
170 Singh Ashutosh 336
187 Mankad Harsh 310
207 Amritraj Prakash 287
239 Raja Purav 250
268 Amritraj Stephen 208
277 Gajjar Rohan 202
303 Ghouse Mustafa 180
450 Devvarman Somdev 106

681 Bhambri Yuki* 54


WTA Singles Ranking as on 29th December 2008
101 MIRZA SANIA 344
197 RAO SUNITHA 146
365 LAKHANI ISHA 62
383 BHAMBRI ANKITA 59
480 BHAMBRI SANAA 40
512 CHAKRAVARTHI RUSHMI 35
592 UBEROI SHIKHA 24
607 VENKATESHA POOJASHREE 23
647 GOSWAMI PARUL 21
688 SAHOO SHALINI 18

WTA Doubles Ranking as on 29th December 2008
61 MIRZA SANIA 803
221 RAO SUNITHA 166
312 UBEROI SHIKHA 102
337 BHAMBRI SANAA 91
341 BHAMBRI ANKITA 88
345 CHAKRAVARTHI RUSHMI 86
403 LAKHANI ISHA 69
577 VENKATESHA POOJASHREE 31
606 MALOO PARIJA 27
703 GOSWAMI PARUL 18