Tennis News
At $50K+H Rimini Challenger, Italy

[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Brian Battistone (USA) bt Roberto Bautista-Agut (ESP)/ Dusan Lojda (CZE) 63 61

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Brian Battistone (USA) vs Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Alexandre Renard (FRA)

Purav had comfortable winning start with Battistone ... Facing French pair in quartes.
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At $25K womens ITF tournament , Woking, Great Britain

[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,132) vs (Q) Claire Bartlett (USA,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Laura Robson (GBR) vs Maria Abramovic (CRO)/ Malou Ejdesgaard (DEN)

Sania is playing at British ITF tournament ... She is facing American qualifier in the first round and with Robson she is top-seed in doubles.
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At $10K Great Britain F10, Frinton

[R1] (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,389) vs qualifier
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND,902) vs Burnham Arlidge (GBR,909)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Kyle Brassington (GBR)/ Benjamin Smith (GBR)
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At $15K Iran F1 Futures, (clay)

[Q1] (3) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Ehsan NOURZADE (IRI) 61 62
[Q2] (3) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Anvar RAKHMATOV (TJK) 46 64 62
[Q3] (3) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Akbar RAHMAN (TJK) 60 60

[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1263) bt Amir-Soheil MOHSENI (IRI,1614) 64 46 64
[R1] (3) Rupesh ROY (IND,463) l Stanislav VOVK (RUS,1146) 75 46 46
[R1] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,765) bt (WC) Ashkan SHOKOOFI (IRI,UNR) 75 76(5)
[R1] Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,942) l (WC) Omid SOURI (IRI,UNR) 63 67(1) 26
[R1] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,465) l Manolis GLEZOS (GRE,1081) 57 57
[R1] (Q) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,UNR) l (5) Gyorgy BALAZS (HUN,507) 46 26
[R1] (2) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,437) l (Q) Abdullah MAGDAS (KUW,1311) 67(3) 16

[R2] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,754) vs Wan GAO (CHN,1044)
[R2] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1261) vs (1) Attila BALAZS (HUN,229)

Doubles
[R1] (4) PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ ROY (IND) l GAO (CHN)/ GAO (CHN) 67(3) 67(7)
[R1] (3) GAJJAR (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) l BAI (CHN)/ XU (CHN) 36 76(2) 4-10
[R1] TIWARI (IND)/ VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt AKHAVAN ROUFIGAR (IRI)/ HOSSEIN ZADE (IRI) 63 60

Good performance by Ashwin Vijayragavan to qualify for maindraw but Vignesh lost against local wild-card player ... Terrible day for our seeded players in singles ... In doubles also our 2 seeded pairs lost in the first round.