Tennis News
At $50K Champaign Challenger, Illinois, USA

Somdev decided to skip this tourney due to shoulder injury ... Hopefully he will be fit to play remaining 2 weeks of 2009 challengers season in Europe.
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At $50K ITF Pune Tournament, Pune, India

Singles Second Round
(1) Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) bt (WC) Nirupama Sanjeev (IND) 62 63
(5) Nina Bratchikova (RUS) bt Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) 76(6) 62
Varatchaya Wongteanchai (THA) bt Nudnida Luangnam (THA) 76(3) 76(5)
(6) Rika Fujiwara (JPN) bt Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN) 62 60

(8) Anastasiya Vasylyeva (UKR) bt Sanaa Bhambri (IND) 61 57 75
(3) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) bt Poojashree Venkatesha (IND) 61 60

(Q) Chen Astrogo (ISR) bt (LL) Sheethal Goutham (IND) 63 46 63
(WC) Sabina Sharipova (UZB) bt (2) Masa Zec-Peskiric (SLO) 63 62

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Bratchikova (RUS)/ Palkina (KGZ) bt (Q) Prerna Bhambri (IND)/ Sharipova (UZB) 61 62
Lertcheewakarn/Wongteanchai (THA) bt Astrogo (ISR)/ Jovanovski (SRB) 62 36 11(9)

Bhambri (IND)/ Chakravarthi (IND) bt (4) Shlomo (ISR)/ Venkatesha (IND) 63 26 10(7)
(2) Clerico (ITA)/ Vasylyeva (UKR) bt Solanki (IND)/ Sunkara (IND) 62 63

Indian challenge got over in singles ... Nirupama produced decent performance against top-seed Tammy ... Sheethal also fought well against Astrogo .... But most impressive performance showed by Sanaa against Vasylyeva ... After losing first set easily she showed remarkable resilience in second set ... She won second set after saving 2 match points .. Her efforts were fell short of producing remarkable victory.

In doubles Sanaa and Rushmi r keeping Indian interest alive.
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At $10K Malaysia F4 Futures, Kuala Lumpur

[R2] (Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,888) l (1) Nathan THOMPSON (USA,457) 36 46
[R2] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,494) bt Sebastian LAVIE (NZL,UNR) 61 64
[R2] (Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,999) l (8) Petar JELENIC (CRO,567) 46 36
[R2] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,483) l Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER,594) 67(2) 16
[R2] Karan RASTOGI (IND,1137) l (6) Murad INOYATOV (UZB,502) 67(6) 36

[QF] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,494) vs (8) Petar JELENIC (CRO,567)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Divij SHARAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) l Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA)/ Nathan THOMPSON (USA) 26 62 (6)10
[QF] Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Matt SIMPSON (NZL) l (3) Barry KING (IRL)/ James MCGEE (IRL) 36 57

Only Rohan Gajjar remained in the singles draw after second round.