Tennis News
At US Open 2010, New York, USA

MXD
[QF] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) 36 46
[QF] Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Gisela Dulko (ARG)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) 36 62 10-4

[SF] Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Mark Knowles (BAH)

Cara and Lee lost in straight sets against Knowles and Groenefeld but Aisam's reached his first grandslam semi-final with Peschke winning another match in super tie-break.
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At $50K+H St Remy de Provence Challenger, France

[R1] (WC) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Michael Ryderstedt (SWE)

Surprisingly our pair recieve wild-card in French challenger.
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At $15K Australia F5 Futures, Cairns

[R1] (6) Karan Rastogi (IND,457) vs Jared Easton (AUS,771)

Doubles
[R1] (4) PROPOGGIA (AUS)/ RASTOGI (IND) bt CHANG (CHN)/ XU (CHN) 64 67(2) 10-6

[QF] (4) PROPOGGIA (AUS)/ RASTOGI (IND) vs EASTON (AUS)/ STATHAM (NZL)

Karan is down-under for back to back 3 futures, hopefully some good results boost his ranking inside top-400.

Winning start in doubles for Karan.
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At $10K Burundi F1 Futures 2010, Bujumbura (clay)

[R1] (1) Rupesh ROY (IND,459) bt Philip BARLOW (GBR,1248) 62 62
[R1] (Q) Shivang MISHRA (IND,UNR)) bt Javier HERRERA-EGUILUZ (MEX,1211) 64 75
[R1] (Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND,UNR) l (3) Bogdan-Victor LEONTE (ROU,605) 26 16
[R1] Vijayant MALIK (IND,843) bt Motaz ABOU EL KHAIR (EGY,929) 64 76(2)
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,1255) l (7) James FEAVER (GBR,752) 06 36

[R2] (1) Rupesh ROY (IND,459) vs Stanislav VOVK (RUS,925)
[R2] (Q) Shivang MISHRA (IND,UNR) vs (8) Gerald MELZER (AUT,760)
[R2] Vijayant MALIK (IND,843) vs Matias CASTRO (ARG,1104)

Doubles
[R1] (1) ROELOFSE (RSA)/ ROY (IND) bt FATTAR (MAR)/ RACHIDI (MAR) 61 62
[R1] (MANUJA (IND)/ MISHRA (IND) bt (3) FILENKOV (RUS)/ VOVK (RUS) 64 46 10-7
[R1] (MALIK (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) bt (2) FEAVER (GBR)/ LEONTE (ROU) 62 60

[QF] (1) ROELOFSE (RSA)/ ROY (IND) vs MELZER (AUT)/ SAFWAT (EGY)
[QF] MANUJA (IND)/ MISHRA (IND) vs AL ABDULLAH (KSA)/ ENOSOREGBE (NGR)
[QF] MALIK (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) vs ALVAREZ-GUZMAN (CHI)/ DIERCKX (BEL)

Good to see our few players decided to play in African clay and earn some cheap points to improve their rankings ... And good start by our players to win some good matches to moved into next round.