Tennis News
At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, FL, USA

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,185) l John Isner (USA,123) 76(5) 36 46

Doubles
[QF] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Martin Fischer (USA) l Go Soeda (JPN)/ Danai Udomchoke (THA) 76(4) 46 (5)10

So our players lost in singles and doubles after winning first set in tie-break ... Fighting performance by Kash against Isner.
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At $15k India F3, New Delhi

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA) bt Adam EL MIHDAWY (USA) 64 76(4)
(5) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (3) Goran TOSIC (MNE) 62 75
(WC) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 64 64
(Q) Masato HATANAKA (JPN) bt (7) Sean THORNLEY (GBR) 76(6) 61

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (4) Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA) 36 67(4) (WC) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE)/ Goran Tosic (MNE) 60 36 10(2)

Yuki continued with his fine run to move into semis with win over countryman Gajjar ... Vishnu produced upset win over 3rd seed player to face top-seed in semis ... In doubles wildcard pair of Ashutosh and Srirambalaji produced upset win over 2nd seed pair in super tie-break after our top seed pair lost their semi-final.
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At $10K Almaty Futures, Kazakhstan

[QF] (3) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,574) bt Karina ISAYAN (RUS,1011) 36 63 62

[SF] (3) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,574) vs (1) Tetyana AREFYEVA (UKR,488)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB)/ Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) l (1) Ima BOHUSH (BLR)/ Eugeniya PASHKOVA (RUS) 36 36

In semis Poojashree having true test but surprisingly 3 setter against Russian in quarters.