Tennis News
At $35K Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) l (3) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS)/ Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS) 64 16 (9)11

Very close loss in super tie-break for Purav and Groth against 3rd seed Russians.
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At $15K Kuwait F1 Futures, Meshref

[R2] (Q) NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND,UNR) bt VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,590) 63 2-1 Retd
[R2] (PR) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,1205) l (6) GOFFIN David (BEL,526) 46 16
[R2] SHARAN Divij (IND,723) l (4) GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW,496) 26 75 26
[R2] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,775) bt (8) YSERN Pierrick (FRA,559) 76(4) 64
[R2] (Q) VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND,857) bt (Q) RICE David (GBR,897) 75 75

[QF] (Q) NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND,UNR) vs JAZIRI Malek (TUN,572)
[QF] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,775) vs (Q) VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND,857)

Good upset win by Gajjar, he will nmeet Ranjeet for place in semis ... Hoping nothing serious injury worry for Vishnu.
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At $10K ITF Womens Futures, Mumbai

Second Round
(1) Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) bt (WC) Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) 62 ?
(5) Yoon-Young JEONG (KOR) bt (WC) Tanvi SHAH (IND) 60 75
(4) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) 63 63
(8) Chun-Yan HE (CHN) bt Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) 62 63
(6) Parul GOSWAMI (IND) l Seo-Kyung KANG (KOR) 63 ?
Alisa OGORODOVA (UZB) bt (3) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) ?
(Q) Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) bt (7) Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) 75 64
(2) Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt Renee BINNIE (AUS) 36 62 62

No upset by any Indians in second round .. Isha needed almost 2 hours 45 minutes to scored win against her Australian Opponent.