Tennis News
At $663,750 St Petersburg Open, Russia

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) 36 76(4)

Serbian pair take early break in the first set and then again broke in 9th game to won first set ... In second set our pair take early break but Serbian broke back at 4-3 to bring set on the serve ... In tie-break Serbian pair take early mini-break to lead 2-4 but then our pair won next 2 points on their serve to make it 5-4 and then hold their serve to take set into STB ... They played solid super tie-break ... Taking 5 mini-breaks on Serbians serve to won it comfortably ... This team is truly rocking last week they lost against same team in straight sets but immediately they turned table on them showing they r learning from past mistakes.
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At €650K Open Sud de France, Montpellier

[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l Stephen Huss (AUS)/ Ross Hutchins (GBR) 63 36 12-14

After winning first set comfortably Mahesh and Max gave chance to Huss and Hutchins to fight back ... They won second set ... In super tie-break Mahesh and Max lost couple of match point before losing match ... not a good start for indoor season for this pair.
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At $15K+H Nigeria F2 Futures, Lagos

[QF] (6) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,529) l (4) Raven KLAASEN (RSA,361) 36 46
[QF] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,446) bt (2) Laurent ROCHETTE (FRA,259) 62 62

[SF] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,446) vs (8) Gilad BEN ZVI (ISR,605)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l (1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA)/ Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) 26 36

Consecutive on second week Karan scored dominating win over top-250 type Frenchman Laurent Rochette ... Next he is facing young Israeli ... Ranjeet couldn't manage to overcome Klaasen.
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At $10K ITF Malaysia, Kuching

[R2] Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND,UNR) l (1) Sabina SHARIPOVA (UZB,409) 06 36
[R2] (6) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,645) bt Rishika SUNKARA (IND,UNR) 62 64

[QF] (6) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,645) vs (4) Elodie ROGGE-DIETRICH (FRA,558)

Doubles
[SF] (1) CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ ROGGE-DIETRICH (FRA) bt DOKEI (JPN)/ OKAZAKI (JPN) 64 16 10-6

[F] (1) CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ ROGGE-DIETRICH (FRA) vs (2) GUMULYA (INA)/ SHARIPOVA (UZB)

Rushmi is singles quarters and doubles final.