Tennis News
At $50K Savannah Challenger, GA, USA

[R1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) bt Lester Cook (USA)/ Tim Smyczek (USA) 61 64

Good solid victory by Harsh and Treat on US clay ... Hopefully they will go deep in this tournament.
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At $100K Ramat Hasharon Challenger, Israel

[R1] Praksh Amritraj (IND,255) l Nick Lindahl (AUS,192) 16 36

Disappointing one sided loss for Kash.
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At $15K India F4, Kolkata

Singles First Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 62
Vaja UZAKOV (UZB) bt (Q) Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE) 36 64 63
Xin-Yuan YU (CHN) bt Yannick NELORD (IND) 64 61
(7) Yu CHANG (CHN) bt (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 61 63
(4) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) bt Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 76(3) 63
(WC) Akash WAGH (IND) bt Victor KOZIN (RUS) 76(0) Retd?
(Q) Kamala KANNAN (IND) bt (Q) Zhuo-Qing ZHOU (CHN) 76(6) 63
(5) Murad INOYATOV (UZB) bt (WC) Vikram REDDY B (IND) 63 64
(6) Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) 75 60
(Q) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 62 26 64
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 62 63
(3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 61 62
(8) Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND) 63 62
Peng GAO (CHN) bt (WC) Saurav SUKUL (IND) 61 64
(Q) Wan GAO (CHN) bt Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA) 64 57 2-0 Retd
Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) bt (2) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 60 62

Doubles First Round
CHANG (CHN)/ ZHOU (CHN) bt (1) GAJJAR (IND)/ RAJA (IND) 64 62
GAO (CHN)/ YU (CHN) bt HSIEH (TPE)/ HUANG (TPE) 26 64 12-10
REDDY B (IND)/ SITARAM (IND) bt (4) KOZIN (RUS)/ UZAKOV (UZB) Walkover
INOYATOV (UZB)/ NELORD (IND) bt MANUJA (IND)/ MARQUIS (IND) 64 75
PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) bt TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND) 61 64
(3) DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) bt KANNAN (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 75 63
SIRIBUTWONG (THA)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt BHATTACHARYA (IND)/ SINGH (IND) 63 63
(2) SHOKEEN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt KHAN (IND)/ SUKUL (IND) 62 75

Today ITF site changed result ... :-( Shahbaaz Khan lost against Yu Chang with same score.

Thai Doakmaiklee defeated 2nd seed Ranjeet in very one-sided match.