Tennis News
At 2010 Junior Davis Cup Finals, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Our u-16 Davis Cup is playing finals at Mexico ... We r in group C with 4th seed Great Britain, 5th seed Czech Republic and Brazil ... Vishal Uppal in non-playing captain.

Group C
(4) Great Britain bt Brazil 2-1
India bt (5) Czech Republic 2-1

Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l Vaclav Safranek (CZE) 26 63 26
Ronit Bisht (IND) bt Marek Jaloviec (CZE) 63 64
Ronit Bisht (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) bt Marek Jaloviec (CZE)/ Vaclav Safranek (CZE) 64 62

With excellent performance by Ronit Bisht in singles and doubles we upset 5th seed Czech team in the first match ... Huge upset by our young team.
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At $850K Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R2] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,532) vs (5) David Ferrer (ESP,11)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Kei Nishikori (JPN) l (3) Marcelo Melo (BRA)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) W/O (due to Nishikori wrist injury)
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At $50K Napoli-2 Challenger, Italy

[R1] Sadik Kadir (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (ALT) Alberto Brizzi (ITA)/ Fabio Colangelo (ITA) 26 46

Oops, match was postpone due to bad light and I thought Purav was leading ... But that wasn't the case Purav and Sadik lost in straight sets in the first round.
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At $15K Spain F35 Futures, Martos

[R1] (5) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,369) bt Javier VALENZUELA-GONZALEZ (ESP,1049) 64 64

[R2] (5) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,369) vs Pablo MARTIN-ADALIA (ESP,457)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bye

[QF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs ESTRUCH (ESP)/ SANCHIS-HERNANDEZ (ESP)

Tough second round against similar ranked local player for Vishnu.
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At $10K Iran F4 Futures, Tehran (clay)

[R1] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,520) l Christoph LESSIAK (AUT,990) 46 57
[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1253) bt (Q) Mo NIAKI (CAN,1694) 64 76(5)

[R2] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1253) l (2) Murad INOYATOV (UZB,496) 26 36

Doubles
[R1] (4) SIE (INA)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt NEDELKO (RUS)/ PULATOV (UZB) 64 64
[R1] HOBBS (SIN)/ TIWARI (IND) l ALTUNA (TUR)/ KUZIN (UKR) 36 46

[QF] (4) SIE (INA)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l LESSIAK (AUT)/ PROPST (AUT) 46 46

Ranjeet lost his match in straight sets but other hand Abhijeet earned his second ATP point in 2 weeks.