Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[Q1] (26) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138) vs João Souza (BRA,223)
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,163) vs (3) Marcos Daniel (BRA,96)

Kash having tough opener against Brazilian No. 1 Marcos Daniel, who is #96 on ATP ranking ... Last week Marcos won Zagreb Challenger on clay and having some good wins in last 2 weeks over players like Ivan Ljubicic, Guillermo Canas, Olivier Rochus, etc.

Som is also playing against Brazilian but winnable match for him ... Though no gurantee with his curren On/ Off playing form.
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At $35K Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND,922) l Ti Chen (TPE,375) 62 16 26

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) vs Evgeny Kirillov (RUS)/ Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)

Purav started well against Ti Chen winning first set but it looks then Chen didn't give him any chance in next 2.
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At $15K Kuwait F1 Futures, Meshref

[R1] VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,590) bt (7) LEJNIEKS Karlis (LAT,558) 76(3) 62

Doubles
[R1] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND)/ NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND) l AL MOUSA Hassan (KUW)/ MUHAMMAD Ahmad Rabeea (KUW) 36 62 (2)10
[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) bt AL TAWEEL Issam (SYR)/ MAAROUF Hayan (SYR) 62 61
[R1] (4) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND)/ GAJJAR Rohan (IND) bt KROTIOUK Sergei (RUS)/ MANEGIN Anton (RUS) 62 63
[R1] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) bt GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW)/ ORTEGREN Johan (SWE) 64 57 10(8)

[QF] SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) vs (3) KONTINEN Henri (FIN)/ RIESCHICK Sebastian (GER)
[QF] (4) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND)/ GAJJAR Rohan (IND) vs AHMADVAND Saeid (IRI)/ AL GHAREEB Ali (KUW)
[QF] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) vs (2) FILENKOV Alexei (RUS)/ SLABINSKY Alexander (GBR)

So expected start for Vishnu, this upset was on card considering Vishnu's recent good run in Indian futures.