Tennis News
At $220K MPS Group Championships, Ponte Vedra Beach, USA (Green Clay)

Final
Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (1) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

[SF] Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Liga Dekmeijere (LAT)/ Angela Haynes (USA) 64 63
[QF] Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Nadia Petrova (RUS) 64 75

Sania and Chia-Jung moved into semis with good straight sets victory in quartersa and semis ... In the final they r facing top-seed pair against whom they lost last week.
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At $50K Lousiana Challenger, Baton Rouge, USA

Doubles Final -
Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Scott Oudsema (USA) l (1) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) 36 76(6) (3)10

[SF] (Q) Somdev DevVarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l (1) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) 36 62 (6)10
[SF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Scott Oudsema (USA) bt Benedikt Dorsch (GER)/ Marinko Matosevic (AUS) 63 76(10)

Singles Final -
(WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,191) l (4) Benjamin Becker (GER,127) 62 36 6y4

[SF] (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,191) bt Samuel Groth (AUS,289) 64 64

So top-seed pair of Ram and Reynolds ended Indian players good run in Lousiana Challenger ... In semis they ended qualifier Som and Huey's dream run in super tie-break ... And in the final again they won in super tie-break against Harsh and Oudsema ... Overall satisfying performance by Harsh and Som with their respective partners.
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At € 2.75M Monte-Carlo Masters, Monaco

[R1] (3) DLOUHY Lukas (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) Bye
[R1] (4) BHUPATHI Mahesh (IND)/ KNOWLES Mark (BAH) Bye
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At $15K Korea F2, Seogwipo

[Q1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1717) bt (15) Seung-Hoon LEE (KOR,1195) 63 62
[Q2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1717) bt Daniel YOON (KOR) 61 64

[Q3] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1717) vs (4) Byung-Kook KANG (KOR,680)

At $15K Korea F1, Daegu

[Q1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1717) bt Sun Hong YOON (KOR,NR) 60 62
[Q2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1717) l (2) Hyun-Joon KIM (KOR,743) 16 26

Good to see last 2 weeks Karunuday playing in Korean futures qualifying ... This is good experience for him on tour.