Tennis News
At $75K Aptos Challenger, USA

[R1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,135) bt (WC) Lester Cook (USA,368) 76(7) 62

[R2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,135) vs Alex Kuznetsov (USA,263)

And in third try Somi managed to overcome challenge of Lester Cook ... Good to see that after winning first set in tie-break he dominated second ... So this is good positive start for Som in US hard court season ... In second round he is facing another American, Alex Kuznetsov.

Match against Kuznetsov is tricky one for Somi as Kuznetsov is on comeback trail ... He recently won Winnetka Challenger as an qualifier beating quality players like Rajeev Ram, Todd Widom and Kristian Pless.
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At $35+K Manchester Challenger, Great Britain

[R1] (5) Prakash Amritraj (IND,254) bt Chris Eaton (GBR,519) 46 63 64

[R2] (5) Prakash Amritraj (IND,254) vs Martin Fischer (AUT,212)

Doubles
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Dustin Brown (JAM) bt Brydan Klein (AUS)/ Robert Smeets (AUS) 62 57 10(4)
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Olivier Charroin (FRA) bt (Q) Jean-Noel Insausti (FRA)/ Alexandre Renard (FRA) 62 16 10(7)

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Dustin Brown (JAM) vs (4) Joshua Goodall (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

Good comeback victory by Kash against tricky local opponent ... This was tricky match for Kash as before this they both played in 2008 at Delhi Challenger and at that time Kash lost his match against Chris Eaton, 67(5) 16.

Prakash and Dustin made winning start in doubles against solid Australian pair ... Purav with his French partner also started with win against French pair.