Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[R1] (14) Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Ipek Senoglu (TUR)/ Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 75 61

[R1] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Sebastien De Chaunac (FRA)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) 61 63
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) l Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Sergio Roitman (ARG) 46 67(10)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) l Andrei Pavel (ROU)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 26 57

[R2] (14) Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)/ Urszula Radwanska (POL)
[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)

Sania and Chia-Jung started badly losing their serve but they fought back and dominated second set after winning tight first set ... In second round they r facing Polish Radwanska sisters.

Our 3rd seed pair started with very easy victory without losing much sweat.

But Rohan and Erlich lost their match against clay courters ... They fought hard in second set but couldn't forced third set.
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At $50K Carson Tournament, California, USA

[R1] (Q) Shikha Uberoi (IND,533) l (8) Alexandra Stevenson (USA,263) 76(5) 36 36

Doubles
[R1] (3) Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Mashona Washington (USA) bt (WC) Kristie Ahn (USA)/ Danielle Lao (USA) 64 63

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

Shikha started well winning first set in tie-break but then she found Stevenson too strong to handle.
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At $15K Kuwait F1 Futures, Meshref

[R2] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) bt (5) LEJNIEKS Karlis (LAT,554) 63 63
[R2] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,773) bt (PR) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,1202) 62 76(2)
[R2] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) bt (Q) KISLYANSKIY Roman (RUS,1538) 62 61

[QF] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) vs (1) RIESCHICK Sebastian (GER,454)
[QF] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,773) vs (7) JAZIRI Malek (TUN,572)
[QF] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) vs (3) YSERN Pierrick (FRA,539)

Doubles
[QF] NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND) bt (1) FILENKOV Alexei (RUS)/ LEE Hsin-Han (TPE) 61 61
[QF] SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) l (4) KONTINEN Henri (FIN)/ RIESCHICK Sebastian (GER) 36 26
[QF] (3) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW) bt AL MOUSA Hassan (KUW)/ MUHAMMAD Ahmad Rabeea (KUW) 63 64
[QF] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) l (2) KRKOSKA Jiri (CZE)/ YSERN Pierrick (FRA) 36 46

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

Vijaykant scored huge victory in his small career over 5th seed Latvian ... This was his first win over top-550 type player ... Tomorrow as expected our all players having tough matches.
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At $10K ITF Womens Futures, New Delhi

First Round
(1) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt (WC) Ratnika BATRA (IND) 62 60
Ying-Ying DUAN (CHN) bt (Q) Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) 62 63
(Q) Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) bt (WC) Aishwarya AGRAWAL (IND) 63 76
Parija MALOO (IND) bt (8) Parul GOSWAMI (IND) 67 76 61
(4) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Ting LI (CHN) 64 76
(Q) Yi ZHONG (CHN) bt (WC) Shweta RANA (IND) 64 76
Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) bt Shivika BURMAN (IND) 62 64
(7) Yoon-Young JEONG (KOR) bt (WC) Radhika JADHAV (IND) 60 60
(6) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt Alisa OGORODOVA (UZB) 61 16 63
Seo-Kyung KANG (KOR) bt Stephanie THEILER (SUI) 60 62
Renee BINNIE (AUS) bt Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) 62 76
(3) Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt (Q) Sonya DAYAL (IND) 62 61
(5) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) bt (Q) Lisa MARSHALL (RSA) 62 64
(Q) Rushmi TELTUMBDE (IND) bt (Q) Rani Smita JAIN (IND) 61 61
Marisa GIANOTTI (AUS) bt Chun-Yan HE (CHN) 62 61
(Q) Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) bt (2) Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) 67 75 75

Second Round
Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) bt (1) Ankita Bhambri (IND) 62 63
Parija Maloo (IND) bt (Q) Treta Bhattacharyya (IND) 63 75
(Q) Yi Zhong (CHN) bt (4) Sanaa Bhambri (IND) 62 63
(7) Yoon-Young Jeong (KOR) bt Jung-Yoon Shin (KOR) 61 60

(6) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) bt Seo-Kyung Kang (KOR) 67(4) 75 64
Renee Binnie (AUS) bt (3) Isha Lakhani (IND) 64 60
(5) Keren Shlomo (ISR) bt (Q) Rashmi Teltumbde (IND) 62 63
(Q) Soon-Mi Seo (KOR) bt Marisa Gianotti (AUS) 76(1) 60

Bad outing for Indian girls ... :-(