Tennis News
At Cincinnati Masters, USA (ATP Masters 1000 tournament)

[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bye
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlohy (CZE) bye
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At $35K+H Karshi Challanger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) bt (WC) Djakhongir DJALALOV (UZB)/ Sergey SHIPILOV (UZB) 62 60

Expected very easy victory for Purav and Sadik.
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At $10K India F7 Futures, New Delhi

Singles First Round
(1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 62 76(2)
Max JONES (GBR) bt (Q) Ankit SACHDEVA (IND) 61 64
(WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt (Q) Yew-Ming SI (MAS) 63 64
(7) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (WC) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 76(5) 63
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 76(5) 64
Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 75 57 62
(WC) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Yannick NELORD (IND) 63 63
(5) Peter LUCASSEN (NED) bt (Q) Hyun-Soo LIM (KOR) 63 36 61
(8) Sean THORNLEY (GBR) bt (WC) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 64 64
Tim BRADSHAW (GBR) bt (Q) Chandril SOOD (IND) 61 62
Seong-Yoon CHUNG (KOR) bt Krishananth BALAKRISHNAN (AUS) 75 36 60
(3) Chris EATON (GBR) bt (Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) 62 62
(6) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Kyle BRASSINGTON (GBR) 46 63 61
(Q) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt Seung-Jae LEE (KOR) 26 64 60
Shane LA PORTE (USA) bt Vikram REDDY B (IND) 60 62
(2) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt (Q) Aditya MADKEKAR (IND) 61 1-0 Retd

Nice to see Sudanwa won his first maindraw match ... Ronak Manuja started with win against Malaysian ... Jeevan is also showing his college stint improving him as a player ... But Vijay Sundar Prashanth scored upset win over 4th seed Rohan Gajjar.
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At $10K Thailand F1, Nothanburi

[R1] (Q) SINGH Karunuday (IND,1430) vs (Q) KIM Woo-Ram (KOR,1061) 64 63

[R2] (Q) SINGH, Karunuday (IND,1430) vs (4) Laurent ROCHETTE (FRA,469)

Good start with win by Karunuday against higher ranked Korean ... But next facing tough challenge from top-500 Frenchman.