Tennis News
At$35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan (clay)

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,334) l Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,384) 46 76(5) 36

Disappointing loss for Vishnu against Russian.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F5 Futures, Astana

[R1] (Q) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) vs Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,925)
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,567) vs Sardor Pulatov (UZB,1747)
[R1] (7) Rohan Gajjar (IND,610) vs (WC) Stanislav Nikulchikov (KAZ,UNR)
[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,UNR) vs (3) Roman Jebavy (CZE,476)
[R1] Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND,1343) vs (Q) Yusuke Watanuki (JPN,UNR)
[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,849) vs (Q) Kirill Komarov (RUS,UNR)
[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,741) bt Mert Dinc (TUR,UNR) 61 61
[R1] (2) Karan Rastogi (IND,353) vs Dilshod (TJK,1829)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) bt Denis Rybanov (RUS)/ Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ) 64 61
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) vs Alexandr Martynov (KAZ)/ Aidynbek Rakhishev (KAZ)
[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt (WC) Zhanbolat Zhakupov (KAZ)/ Adil Eltaev (KAZ) 62 61

Ranjeet played qualifying as late sign up for the futures and joined main-draw comfortably ... Sidharth having tough match against #3 seed Roman Jebavy ... Others having easy matches ... Karan and Rupesh can face each other in the second round.