Tennis News
At Davis Cup World Group Play-Off 2010, Chennai, India

Day 1
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,479) vs Thomaz Bellucci (BRA,27)
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,113) vs Ricardo Mello (BRA,75)

Day 2
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Marcelo Melo (BRA)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)

Day 3
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,113) vs Thomaz Bellucci (BRA,27)
[R5] Rohan Bopanna (IND,479) vs Ricardo Mello (BRA,75)

Unfavourable draw for us as our 2nd singles player facing Brazilian top-30 singles player ... Anyway we r underdog for this tie as per our ATP rankings but I m hoping for surprising win, 3-2.
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At $220K Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China

Doubles
[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Edina Gallovits (ROU) bt (4) Anna Smith (GBR)/ Zi Yan (CHN) 62 64

[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Edina Gallovits (ROU) vs Olga Savchuk (UKR)/ Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)

Sania and Edina won first set comfortably, in second set both pairs traded lot of breaks but our pair take decisive break to won match in straight sets.

In the semis they r facing another unseeded pair who upset top-seed pair in straight sets.
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At $35K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) 62 36 10-6

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) vs Matthew Ebden (GBR)/ James Ward (GBR)

Yuki and Ryler moved into semis with super tie-break win over Taipei's Davis cup doubles pair ... Next they r facing unseeded British pair, who defeated seeded fellow countrymen in quarters.
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At $15K Australia F6 Futures, Darwin

[R2] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,460) bt Yu Chang (CHN,611) 62 62

[QF] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,460) vs (5) Hiroki Moriya (JPN,467)

Another nice comfortable win for Karan against his Chinese opponent ... Next he is facing similar ranked Japanese opponent in quarters.
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At $10K USA F23, Claremont, CA

[R1] Karunuday Singh (IND,1041) bt (WC) Jeff Tarango (USA,UNR) 64 16 75

[R2] Karunuday Singh (IND,1041) vs (2) Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL,581)

Doubles
[R1] (4) GONZALES (PHI)/ SINGH (IND) bt GORHAM (USA)/ TRAGARDH (USA) 63 63
[QF] (4) GONZALES (PHI)/ SINGH (IND) bt KONIGSFELDT (DEN)/ RECKNAGEL (GER) 62 63

[SF] (4) GONZALES (PHI)/ SINGH (IND) vs FOGLEMAN (USA)/ KEARNEY (USA)

Good to see Karunuday playing in US ... Also interesting to see 42 yrs old Jeff Tarango participated in this futures, who was ranked top-50 in singles and top-10 in doubles in 1990s ... Next Karunuday having tough match against 2nd seed Bulgarian Kutrovsky.

In doubles Karunuday r in semis with his Filipino partner.