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

[QF] (2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt (WC) Thomas Fabiano (ITA)/ Walter Trusendi (ITA) 46 75 10(7)

Very hard fought win over local wildcard pair ... But importantly they r in semis so Harsh's good run on European clay in continue ... He is aiming around 100 doubles ranking at the year end, go Harsh.
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At $50K Tulsa Challenger, USA

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,243) l Artem Sitak (RUS,371) 46 67

Another inconsistent performance by Prakash ... He lost against player whom he had no business to lose.
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At $10K ITF Womens Tournament, New Delhie, India

Semi Finals
(8) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt (1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) 64 62
(7) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Sirui HE (CHN) 64 36 76(5)

Quarter Finals
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt (6) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) 75 75
(8) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt Shivika BURMAN (IND) 61 61
(7) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Sheethal GOUTHAM (IND) 62 63
Sirui HE (CHN) bt Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) 46 63 61

Good lesson by veteran and experienced Rushmi Chakravarthi to young Poojashree ... Sanaa defeated spritied Chinese girl to make it all Indians final.
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At $10K Rwanda F1 Futures, Kigali (clay)

[R2] (4) Rupesh ROY (IND,681) bt Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA,UNR) 06 76(1) 75

[QF] (4) Rupesh ROY (IND,681) l (7) Motaz ABOU EL KHAIR (EGY) 36 46

Rupesh saved from big scare in second round against unranked South African opponent but lost against Egyptian in quarters.