Tennis News
At € 1.995M Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009, Spain

[F] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l (2) Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 36 67(9)

Mahesh and Mark failed to lift title, Zimo and Nestor won their second title in 2 weeks.
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At €2.75M ATP World Tour Rome Masters 1000, Italy

[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bye
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bye

Hopefully this week Lee and Lukas performed as per their ranking, they r in top draw with Bryans ... Mahesh and Mark must be hoping to continue with their good form of Barcelona Open, but they r in bottom draw with Zimo and Nestor.
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At $100K+H Aegean Tennis Cup 2009, Rhodes, Greece (Hard court)

[Q3] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND,324) bt Marco Trungelliti (ARG,584) 57 63 64

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,185) vs Qualifier
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,149) vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA,163)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA,170) vs (5) Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR,115)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Harel Levy (ISR) vs (1) Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Ashley Fisher (AUS)
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Theodoros Angelinos (GRE) vs (3) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA)

Rohan produced comeback victory over Italian Marco Trungelliti to qualify for the maindraw ... Match was tougher than expected but in end Bops pulled up victory.
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At $15k India F4, New Delhi

Qualifying First Round
Vedant KAPOOR (IND) bt Vikas CHAUHAN (IND) 46 76(5) 62
(11) Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt Varun WALIA (IND) 63 61
Ankit SACHDEVA (IND) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 63 67(1) 64
(12) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Dino DELL'ORTO (HKG) 62 62
(3) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) bt Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 76(3) 67(3) 64
(16) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt Lakshit SOOD (IND) 61 61
Vishal PUNNA (IND) bt (4) Rohan GIDE (IND) 63 61
Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (9) Mathieu GOVEN (FRA) 63 64
(5) Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt Mithun MURALI (IND) 63 60
(10) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) bt Chandril SOOD (IND) 60 64
(6) Masato HATANAKA (JPN) bt Manuel FERDIK (AUT) 63 61
(15) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt Kelsey STEVENSON (CAN) 63 75
(7) Takuto NIKI (JPN) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 62 62
(13) Tushar LIBERHAN (IND) bt Pulkit MISHRA (IND) 61 62
Huai-En CHANG (TPE) bt (8) Saar STEELE (ISR) 62 57 61
(14) Vijay KANNAN (IND) bt Niall ANGUS (GBR) 63 64

Qualifying Final Round
(11) Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt Vedant KAPOOR (IND) 61 64
(12) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Ankit SACHDEVA (IND) 63 61
(3) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) bt (16) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) 63 67(1) 63
Vishal PUNNA (IND) bt Karunuday SINGH (IND) 64 64
(10) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) bt (5) Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA) 75 64
(6) Masato HATANAKA (JPN) bt (15) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 61 63
(13) Tushar LIBERHAN (IND) bt (7) Takuto NIKI (JPN) 76(5) 75
Huai-En CHANG (TPE) bt (14) Vijay KANNAN (IND) 57 76(3) 3-2 Retd

This week 3 Indians qualified for India F4 futures maindraw.