Tennis News
At $50K+H Todi Challenger, Italy (Clay)

[R1] (2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Brian Battistone (USA)/ Dann Battistone (USA) 63 62
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Jiri Krkoska (CZE) l Pablo Santos (ESP)/ Gabriel Trujillo-Soler (ESP) 46 36

[QF] (2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) vs (WC) Thomas Fabiano (ITA)/ Walter Trusendi (ITA)

Good easy victory for Harsh against tricky pair of Battistone twins.
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At $10K ITF Womens Tournament, New Delhie, India

Second Round
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) 76(1) 60
(6) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) bt Dalila JAKUPOVIC (SLO) 63 61
Shivika BURMAN (IND) bt Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 64 75
(8) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt Elodie ROGGE-DIETRICH (FRA) 61 62
(7) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Jasmin STEINHERR (GER) 64 63
Sheethal GOUTHAM (IND) bt (4) Isha LAKHANI (IND) 46 64 62
Sirui HE (CHN) bt (5) Miki MIYAMURA (JPN) 36 62 63
Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) bt Chun-Yan HE (CHN) 16 64 76(6)

First Round
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt Ester MASURI (ISR) 63 62
Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) bt Parul GOSWAMI (IND) 1-0 Retd
Dalila JAKUPOVIC (SLO) bt Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) 63 36 62
(6) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) bt Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) 62 61
Rishika SUNKARA (IND) bt (3) Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) 61 2-0 Retd
Shivika BURMAN (IND) bt Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) 61 3-0 Retd
Elodie ROGGE-DIETRICH (FRA) bt Jade HOPPER (AUS) 61 64
(8) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt Renee BINNIE (AUS) 61 60
(7) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) 64 62
Jasmin STEINHERR (GER) bt Ofir MORAG (ISR) 63 61
Sheethal GOUTHAM (IND) bt Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) 4-0 Retd
(4) Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt Nan-Nan ZHANG (CHN) 62 64
(5) Miki MIYAMURA (JPN) bt Anushree THAMMANNA (IND) 64 63
Sirui HE (CHN) bt Nimisha MOHAN (IND) 75 62
Chun-Yan HE (CHN) bt Stephanie THEILER (SUI) 60 60
Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) bt (2) Kyung-Yee CHAE (KOR) 61 1-0 Retd

Very good win by Sheetal Goutham over Isha in second round.