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

[SF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (3) Filip Polasek (SVK)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK) 64 36 b10-8

[F] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Potito Starace (ITA)
Doubles

Rohan and Aisam r in the final beating 3rd seed Slovakian pair in close super tie-break ... In the final they r facing unseeded Italian pair.
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At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[Q1] Sanam Singh (IND,771) vs ( WC) Steven Rooda (NED,UNR)
[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,554) vs Niclola Remedi (ITA,UNR)
[Q1] Rupesh Roy (IND,550) vs (WC) Luca Corintelli (USA,UNR)
[Q1] Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND,UNR) vs (WC) Justine Shane ( USA,UNR)

Good to see so many our players r playing in challenger outside of India, that also in singles ... Hopefully few of them join Somi is singles maindraw.
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At $15K+H Nigeria F2 Futures, Lagos

Singles Final
(5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,446) bt (4) Raven KLAASEN (RSA,361) 62 67(4) 75

After losing last week's final Karan won Nigerian futures title in second week ... He defeated South African Klassen in entertaining match to lift another singles title on futures level ... With this Karan will climb around #325 affter 2 weeks to become India's 2nd ranked singles player behind Somi.