Tennis News

In singles Somdev again find himself out of top-100, he is on #113 after first round US Open exit.

As expected big rise for Rohan and Aisam in their respective rankings ... Rohan is climbed to career-best ranking, #19 and Aisam is also on career-best ranking, #23 ... Leander is dropped to #8 and Mahesh is out of top-10 on #13 after their early exit.

Rohan and Aisam r also climb to #6 in race to London ahead of Mahesh and Max ... So they r in good chance to qualify for ATP doubles final as indoor season is suited to their attacking game ... So we r having chance of 3 players in ATP doubles final.

Race to London ATP World Tour Finals (after US Open)

1. Bob and Mike Bryan 9875 pts - Q
2. Daniel Nestor/ Nenad Zimonjic 7325 pts - Q
3. Leander Paes/ Lukas Dlouhy 3825 pts
4. Lukasz Kubot/ Oliver Marach 2925 pts
5. Dick Norman/ Wesley Moddie 2880 pts
6. Rohan Bopanna/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi 2800 pts
7. Mahesh Bhupathi/ Max Mirnyi 2745 pts
7. Jurgen Melzer/ Philipp Petzschner 2745 pts
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9. Simon Aspelin/ Paul Hanley 2690 pts
10. Robert Lindstedt/ Horia Tecau 2650 pts
11. Mariusz Fyrstenberg/ Marcin Matkowski 2320 pts
12 Frantisek Cermak/ Michal Mertinak 1965 pts
13. John Isner/ Sam Querrey 1945 pts
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At $220K Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,159) vs Katie O'Brien (GBR,127)

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

Good decision by Sania to play in China where top-50 players r not playing ... She is in doubles with Romanian partner and facing Aussie pair.
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At $35K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,526) l (WC) Dmitry Tursunov (RUS,487) 57 16

Doubles
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) vs (2) Evgeny Kirillov (RUS)/ Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)

Yuki lost against Dima, draw was tough as in US Open first round Dima stretched Wr #15 Jurgen Melzer to 5 sets ... It seems after first set Yuki couldn't match game with Dima.
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At $125K Szczecin Challenger, Poland

Doubles
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Frank Moser (GER) vs (2) Leos Friedl (CZE)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK)

Tough first round for Harsh and his German partner.
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At $15K Australia F6 Futures, Darwin

[R1] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,460) vs Dane PROPOGGIA (AUS,642)

Ths week Karan is playing in singles only ... Having tricky match against last week's doubles partner Aussie Dane Propoggia.
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At $10K Rwanda F1 Futures 2010, Kigali (clay)

[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,1245) vs (6) Anas FATTAR (MAR,738)
[R1] Vijayant MALIK (IND,880) vs (Q) Cheong-Eui KIM (KOR,UNR)
[R1] (Q) Shivang MISHRA (IND,UNR) vs (3) Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY,591)
[R1] (2) Rupesh ROY (IND,469) vs Robert BUYINZA (UGA,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] FEAVER (GBR)/ MANUJA (IND) vs HEDAYET (EGY)/ KIM (KOR)
[R1] (2) ROELOFSE (RSA)/ ROY (IND) vs MALIK (IND)/ SHARMA (IND)

This week also Shivang qualified for main-draw but having tough match against 3rd seed Egyptian ... Vijayant facing unranked Korean, who was top-700 player couple of years back, may be this Korean coming out of injury.