Tennis News
At $220K Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,144) bt (3) Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB,60) 64 63

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND,144) vs Shuai Zhang (CHN,101)

Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Edina Gallovits (ROU) bt Jarmila Groth (AUS)/ Sally Peers (AUS) 64 63

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Edina Gallovits (ROU) vs (4) Anna Smith (GBR)/ Zi Yan (CHN)

In first set Sania was up with early break of service, she saved 1 break point on her serve but hold her service games to keep one break lead ... Sania converted 3rd set point to won first set, she was up 40-15 before Akgul take game into deuce ... In second set also Sania started with early break, broke Akgul in first game ... Again Sania broke Akgul in 3rd game to take 3-0 lead ... Akgul saved a match point in 7th game before holding her serve ... Akgul first-time broke Sania's serve in the match when Sania was serving for the match in 8th game ... But immediately Sania broke Akgul's serve in 9th game to scored comfortable win ... She will play China's Shuai Zhang in quarter-finals, who upset the South African 8th seed Chanelle Scheepers.

Overall heartening performance by Sania in this match ... Her 1st serve percentage were 54% ... She faced 3 break points and saved 2, other hand created 7 break point opportunities and converted 4 ... In this match Sania won 66 pts in compare Akgul's 54 pts.

Good start in doubles also ... Next they r facing 4th seed British-Chinese pair.
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At $35K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) bt (2) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS)/ Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS) 62 6-6 Retd

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) vs Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE)

Yuki and Ryler were up after winning first set and in second set at 6-all their 2nd seed opponents gave up the match due to back injury to Kudryavtsev ... Next they r facing Taipei pair in quarters.
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At $15K Australia F6 Futures, Darwin

[R1] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,460) bt Dane PROPOGGIA (AUS,642) 61 60

[R2] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,460) vs Yu Chang (CHN,611)

Really good solid win over his last week's doubles partner.
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At $10K Rwanda F1 Futures 2010, Kigali (clay)

[R1] (Q) Shivang MISHRA (IND,UNR) l (3) Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY,591) 36 46

[R2] (2) Rupesh ROY (IND,469) l Stanislav VOVK (RUS,873) 16 61 57

Doubles
[R1] FEAVER (GBR)/ MANUJA (IND) l HEDAYET (EGY)/ KIM (KOR) 57 26

[QF] MALIK (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) l MELZER (AUT)/ SAFWAT (EGY) 46 76(0) 6-10

Indian challenge got over with Rupesh's disappointing loss against Russian.