Tennis News
At $553K Winston Salem Open, USA

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 46 46

Top-seed Rohan and Aisam had tough match and they failed to deliver ... They lost in straight sets against Dlouhy and Tecau ... Dlouhy and Tecau broke once in each set to scored somewhat comfortable victory.
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At $50K Astana-2 Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,370) l Joshua Milton (GBR,365) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] Karan Rastogi (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Hiroki Moriya (JPN) 75 62

Vishnu's struggle in singles at challenger level continued ... He lost without giving much fight to similar ranked British Joshua Milton in straight sets.

In doubles he and Karan started with win over Moriya and Chen.
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At $100K+H Manerbio Challenger, Italy

[QF] (3) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Jaroslav Pospisil (CZE)/ Florent Serra (FRA)
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At $15K Spain F30 Futures, Orense

[R1] (6) Carlos CALDERON-RODRIGUEZ (ESP,615) l Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,942) 36 16

Doubles
[R1] Rafael MAZON-HERNANDEZ (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) l (4) Jaime PULGAR-GARCIA (ESP)/ Federico ZEBALLOS (BOL) 36 57

Early weekend for Ramkumar as he lost in singles and doubles first round.
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At $10K Germany F12, Überlingen (clay)

[Q1] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1315) bt Laurent WAGNER (GER,UNR) 60 60
[Q2] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1315) bt Teri GROLL (FRA,UNR) 63 36 75

[R1] (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1315) bt (WC) Alexander RITSCHARD (SUI,1858) 63 63

[R2] (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1315) vs (Q) Marko LENZ (GER,1156)

Good to see Balaji winning the first round.