Tennis News
At $100K+H Segovia Challenger, Spain

[QF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Brian Battistone (USA) bt (3) Marc Gicquel (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 63 76(6)

[SF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Brian Battistone (USA) vs Jamie Delgado (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

Superb victory by Harsh and Brian over very experienced French players ... After winning first set with a break of serve, in second they dsaved a set point before converting first match point in tie-break ... Very good win.
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At $75+H Beijing Challenger, China

[QF] (1) Sadik Kadir (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Woong-Sun Jun (KOR) 64 61

[SF] (1) Sadik Kadir (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR)

Top-seed Purav and Sadik moved into semis with comfortable win ... Next they r facing unseeded Japanese-Israeli pair.
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At $15K Great Britain F12, London - Roehampton

[R2] (4) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,449) bt (Q) Jack CARPENTER (GBR,1214) 76(5) 62
[R2] (6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,488) bt (WC) Oliver GOLDING (GBR,UNR) 64 64
[R2] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,478) bt Baptiste BAYET (FRA,856) 62 63
[R2] Divij SHARAN (IND,1156) bt (3) Miloslav MECIR (SVK,384) 61 0-1

[QF] (4) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,449) vs (6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,488)
[QF] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,478) vs Divij SHARAN (IND,1156)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Divij SHARAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) l Edward CORRIE (GBR)/ David RICE (GBR) 67(3) 57

Some early results from UK and Divij having huge win over Mecir, though he retired from the match but Divij won first set comfortably against talented Mecir ... Nice to see Karan also moved to quarters with comfortable win.

Vishnu and Yuki kept performing as per their rankings ... But now next they r facing eachother in quarters, may best player win in these 2 matches.

In doubles top-seed Vishnu and Divij lost in quarters.
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At Thailand F1 Futures, Nonthaburi

[R1] (1) Rupesh ROY (IND,477) bt Yaoki ISHII (JPN,904) 62 63

[R2] (1) Rupesh ROY (IND,477) bt (Q) Erik CREPALDI (ITA,1058) 64 63
[R2] Vijayant MALIK (IND,856) l (7) Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY,743) 16 36
[R2] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,678) bt Mikal STATHAM (NZL,799) 75 63

[QF] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,678) vs (6) Nikala SCHOLTZ (RSA,739)

Doubles
[R1] (1) SHOKEEN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt CHANG (TPE)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 63 63
[R1] NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) bt KORKIATTHAWORN (THA)/ SORNBUTNARK (THA) 61 64

[QF] (4) MALIK (IND)/ ROY (IND) vs MAGDAS (KUW)/ RIESCHICK (GER)
[QF] NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) vs (2) DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ RUNGKAT (INA)

Rupesh scored comfortable back to back win to moved into quarters ... Vijay also reached in quarters with straight sets victory.