Tennis News
At $442.5K SA Tennis Open, Johannesburg

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) bt Jesse Huta Galung (NED,120) 63 64

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) vs (WC) Rick De Voest (RSA,183)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ David Martin (USA) bt Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Rainer Schuettler (GER) 63 64

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ David Martin (USA) vs Karol Beck (SVK)/ Dudi Sela (ISR)

So no match against Tipsarevic as he lost against Dutch player Jesse Huta Galung, 76(4) 46 67(4), in the morning when match started from 3-all in the third set.

Buji had terrific second round match against Jesse Huta Galung ... In first set Somi started badly and lose his serve early to down 1-3 but after that he came back strongly winning next 5 games to won first set ... Second set also went like first one ... Somi was early break down and again he came back strongly to won second set and match in style ... In quarter-final he is facing local wild-card boy and his good friend Rick De Voest.

Good start in doubles also ... Next they r facing Beck and Sela who upset second seeds in the first round.
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At Asia/Oceania Group I,

Group A

India l China 1-2

Poojashree VENKATESHA l Hao Chen TANG 36 26
Sania MIRZA l Jing-Jing LU 16 60 46
Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI/ Poojashree VENKATESHA bt Jing-Jing LU/ Ran TIAN 63 62

Na Li wasn't playing in this match so we had good chance of winning this ... Our both singles players was playing against lower ranked opponents and both failed ... That cost us match and most probably place in Group I.
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At $15K Cambodia F2 Futures, Phnom Penh

[R2] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) bt Kento Takeuchi (JPN,938) 26 62 60
[R2] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,525) bt Christopher Rungkat (INA,636) 62 46 64
[R2] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) bt (Q) Jan Blecha (CZE,1233) 75 62
[R2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) bt (3) Nikolaus Moser (AUT,422) 64 62
[R2] Vijayant Malik (IND,800) l Arata Onozawa (JPN,602) 46 46
[R2] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,387) l Peng Gao (CHN,853) 36 26

[QF] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) vs (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,525)
[QF] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) vs (Q) Perakiat Siriluethaaiwattana (THA,1175)
[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) vs Ervand Gasparyan (RUS,867)

Doubles

[QF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt MARGAROLI (SUI)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 60 64
[QF] (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) bt TAKEUCHI (JPN)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 62 63
[QF] PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt ONOZAWA (JPN)/ SEKIGUCHI (JPN) 76(3) 36 10-6

[SF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) vs (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND)
[SF] PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND) vs (3) HUANG (TPE)/ LEE (TPE)

Shocking result, Vishnu lost very easily against below 825 ranked Chinese Peng Gao ... Karan and Yuki also struggled to move into quarters and will face each other ... But solid dominating win by N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth over top-425 Austrian Nikolaus Moser to moved into quarters.