Tennis News
At $75k Trnava Challenger, Slovakia (clay)

[R1] (2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Guillermo Olaso (ESP) bt (WC) Michal Konecny (CZE)/ Radim Urbanek (CZE) 64 62

[QF] (2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Guillermo Olaso (ESP) vs Pavol Cervenak (SVK)/ Ivo Klec (SVK)

Good start for Harsh with his new Spanish partner, so next match against local Slovakian pair.
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At $15K France F15 Futures, Plaisir

[R1] (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,368) bt (Q) Jeremie CAYLA (FRA,UNR) 63 61

[R2] (4) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,368) vs Gregoire Burquier (FRA,345)

Doubles
[R1] GRAMMARE (FRA)/ SINGH (IND) bt HAMARD (FRA)/ VENTURINO (FRA) 62 64
[QF] GRAMMARE (FRA)/ SINGH (IND) bt (1) CHARROIN (FRA)/ MITSUHASHI (JPN) Walkover

Vishnu comfortably won first round match against unseeded local qualifier ... But next he is facing tough match against similar ranked opponent.

Ashutosh and Nicolas started with win and they also received walkover against top-seed, so they r in semis.
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At $10K Iran F3, Tehran (clay)

[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1248) bt Ashkan DABIRI (IRI,1517) 62 75

[R2] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1248) vs Sebastian FITZ (GER,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] HOBBS (SIN)/ TIWARI (IND) l FITZ (GER)/ KEPLER (GER) 26 67(3)

Good start for Abhijeet ... His next round German opponent now largely play doubles but Sebastian Fitz is former top-250 around singles and doubles player so good test for Abhijeet.

Sebastian Fitz and his German partner defeated Abhijeet and his Singaporean partner in doubles.
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At $10K Uganda F1 Futures 2010, Kampala (clay)

[R1] Vijayant MALIK (IND,880) bt Mauricio ALVAREZ-GUZMAN (CHI,1095) 60 61
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,1245) bt (Q) Mark FYNN (ZIM,UNR) 76(2) 76(2)

[R2] Vijayant MALIK (IND,880) vs Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,768)
[R2] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,1245) vs (8) Gerald MELZER (AUT,761)

Good to see Kaza winning 1st ATP point in 3 weeks but second round against Melzer is tough one, who is in form winning back to back these African futures last 2 weeks ... Vijayant scored very convincing win over Chilean and next play Zimbabwean, who upset top-seed top-300 Dutch player in first round.