Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[SF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Tommy Robredo (ESP) 63 60

[QF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Arnaud Clement (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 64 67(5) 10-4

[SF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs (8) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Lee and Lukas scored very dominating win over Spanish pair to moved into Miami Masters final ... In this match they only lost 3 games ... Mahesh and Max also won their quarter-final match in super tie-break against French pair ... They r facing Polish pair in semis.
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At $35K+H Napoli Challenger, Italy

[SF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Diego Junqueira (ARG)/ Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG) 76(6) 64

[F] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Dustin Brown (JAM)/ Jesse Witten (USA)

Rohan and Aisam scored good victory on red clay against Argentine pair to moved into another final at challenger level.
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At $10K India F3 Futures, Vijayawada

Singles Quarter Finals
(7) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) 76(3) 2-0 Retd.
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 46 62 63
(4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (6) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) 64 75
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) 63 67(5) 61

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt (4) CHEN (TPE)/ ROY (IND) 63 62
NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt (3) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) 76(10) 64

Terrific result for Rupesh to moved in semis ... Though Yuki retired from the match in second set but Rupesh matched him in first set before winning in tie-break ... Ranjeet stopped Kaza's run in 3 sets ... Vishnu also scored win over Nathan in 3 sets .. So from here on all Indian matches.
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At $10K Cairo, Egypt (Clay)

[R2] (2) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,348) l Margit RUUTEL (EST,921)

Doubles
[QF] (3) CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ VENKATESHA (IND) bt JANDOVA (CZE)/ KANAKOVA (CZE) 36 62 10-3

[SF] (3) CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ VENKATESHA (IND) l (1) GERLOVA (CZE)/ KRIEGSMANNOVA (CZE) 62 46 7-10

Disappointing loss in singles for Poojashree.