Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

[R1] (ALT) Rajeev Ram (USA,114) l (Q) Josselin Ouanna (FRA,103) 67(4) 46 63 46

[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Victor Hanescu (ROU)/ Gabriel Trifu (ROU) 76(11) 76(4)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO)
[R1] (14) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs Ekaterina Dzehalevich (BLR)/ Renata Voracova (CZE)

MXD
[R1] (1) Liezel Huber(USA)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Vania King (USA)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (Canada) vs Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Ashley Fisher (AUS)
[R1] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Patty Schnyder (SUI)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA)

Good to see they pulled off victory in 2 tight sets ... This time also they r participating in grandslam with lack of match practice ... So first few rounds r important for them.

In MXD, Mahesh and Huber r top seed, Lee and Cara r 2nd seed.
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Tennis News
At $10K India F9 Futures, New Delhi

Second Round
(Q) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (Q) Seong-Yoon CHUNG (KOR) 64 61
(6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 16 6-5 Retd
Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt Max JONES (GBR) 64 2-0 Retd
(5) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Rohan GIDE (IND) 5-1 Retd
(8) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 67(1) 62 61
(4) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Johnny ARCILLA (PHI) 76(4) 26 60
Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Yew-Ming SI (MAS) 36 64 76(5)
(2) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt (Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) 61 64

Jeevan scored very good fighting comeback win against Malaysian ... Karunuday also moved to quarters scoring win over Korean qualifier ... Other results were expected, though some of them were due to retirements ... So 6 Indians r in quarters.
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At $10K ITF Tournament, Nothanburi, Thailand

[R2] Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND,802) l Sophia MULSAP (THA,939) 46 26