Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

MXD
[R1] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Virginie Razzano (FRA)/ Jeff Coetzee (RSA) 63 63

[R2] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Sybille Bammer (AUT)/ Lukasz Kubot (POL)

Easy winning start for 2nd seed pair of Cara and Lee in mixed doubles.
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At $50K Carson Challenger II, California, USA

[QF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) bt (4) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Nicholas Monroe (USA) 62 63

[SF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) vs (Q) G.D. Jones (NZL) / Scott Oudsema (USA)

Harsh and Nielsen scored very impressive win over seeded pair ... Next they r facing qualifiers to book place in the final.
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At $50K Carson Tournament, California, USA

[QF] (3) Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Mashona Washington (USA) bt Gail Brodsky (USA)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 63 75

[SF] (3) Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Mashona Washington (USA) vs (2) Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Nicole Kriz (AUS)

Good to see Shikha and Mashona performed as per their ranking and r in semis.
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At $15K Kuwait F1 Futures, Meshref

[QF] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) bt (1) RIESCHICK Sebastian (GER,454) 76(4) 76(6)
[QF] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,773) l (7) JAZIRI Malek (TUN,572) 64 26 26
[QF] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) bt (3) YSERN Pierrick (FRA,539) 76(4) 63

[SF] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) vs (7) JAZIRI Malek (TUN,572)
[SF] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) vs (6) GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW,562)

Doubles
[SF] NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND) l (4) KONTINEN Henri (FIN)/ RIESCHICK Sebastian (GER) 46 26
[SF] (3) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW) l (2) KRKOSKA Jiri (CZE)/ YSERN Pierrick (FRA) 67(2) 46

Vijayant keep impressing with his performance ... Yesterday he scored his first win over top-450 type player in tight 2 tie-breaks ... Vishnu also kept his current good run scoring upset but expected victory over Frenchman.
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At $10K ITF Womens Futures, New Delhi

Quarter Finals
Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) bt Parija Maloo (IND) 63 64
(Q) Yi Zhong (CHN) bt (7) Yoon-Young Jeong (KOR) 57 63 63

(6) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) bt Renee Binnie (AUS) 67(3) 63 63
(5) Keren Shlomo (ISR) bt (Q) Soon-Mi Seo (KOR) 61 61

Sad to see no new new name coming up in womens side, Rushmi kept Indian hope alive.