Tennis News
At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, Virginia, USA

[R1] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,116) bt (WC) Denes Lukacs (HUN,1292) 63 26 75
[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,UNR) bt (6) Grega Zemlja (SLO,159) 62 57 64

[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,UNR) vs Scoville Jenkins (USA,230)
[R2] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,116) vs Izaak Van der Merwe (RSA,264)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) l (WC) Cory Parr (USA)/ Todd Paul (USA) 67(2) 57
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA) vs Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Donald Young (USA)

Writing this report from onlooker report
Sanam won first set breaking Zemlja's serve in 3rd and 5th games ... In this set he had 8 aces ... In second set Sanam broke Zemlja's serve in 7th game and was serving for the match at 5-4 but Zemlja broke Sanam's serve saving 2 match points and Zemlja take full advantage of disappointed Sanam's breaking him again in 12th game to won second set ... In third set Zemlja started well breaking Sanam's serve in 2nd game, that means Zemlja won 6 games on a row ... But instead of going down Sanam showed excellent fighting ability (I feel true credit should go to UVa coach Brian Boland, that he is turning our players in to proper pro players, who never lose their hopes.), he broke Zemlja's serve in 3rd game and take another break in 5th game to taking control of third set ... In final game Sanam was down 0-30 but he won next 4 points to complete excellent victory.

Somi had expected tough match of 2 and 1/2 hours ... It was baseline duel from the start ... In first set Somi was in control and moved Lukacs all over the court ... He broke Lukacs's serve in 5th and 7th games to won first set ... Seconfd set was exactly opposite of first set and this time Lukacs dominated this set moving Somi all over the court ... He broke Somi's serve in 5th and 7th games to won second set easily ... In third set also Somi was struggling with holding his serve and Lukacs was comfortably holding his service games ... But from 3-2 Somi again started to find his range and from their tide started to move in his favor ... In game 8 Somi had a break point chance but couldn't convert it ... Somi broke Lukacs's serve in 12th game after leading 6-5, converting 2nd match point.

But in doubles our top-seed pair of Harsh and Treat lost against college pair ... As per report, match was close but Treat struggled with his net game ... Hopefully next week they will perform better.
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At $100K+H Chuncheon Challenger, South Korea

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,223) bt Andis Juska (LAT,287) 61 26 76(4)

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,223) vs Igor Sijsling (NED,250)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Greg Jones (AUS)/ Pavel Snobel (CZE) 63 62
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Alex Kuznetsov (USA) l (2) Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) 36 46

Prakash scored good tight win over Latvian in third set tie-break ... In quarters he is facing Sijsling, who upset 3rd seed in second round.

Purav and Sadik scored another easy victory to moved into semis.
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At $35K+H Eckental Challenger, Germany

[R1] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rameez Junaid (AUS) l Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 75 36 (11)13

Another disappointing loss for Rohan, next week we can find him outside top-100 doubles ranking.