Tennis News
At World Junior Tennis Championships 2011, Prostejov, Czech Republic

Group D
India bt Spain 2-1

Garvit Batra (IND) l Miguel Semmler Arranz (ESP) 16 63 75
Sahil Deshmukh (IND) bt Pedro MARTINEZ PORTERO (ESP) 64 60
Sahil Deshmukh (IND)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) bt Pedro MARTINEZ PORTERO (ESP)/ Miguel SEMMLER ARRANZ (ESP) 26 62 62

(2) Romania bt (8) Canada 2-1

India scored another upset with win over clay court specialist Spanish team ... Garvit gave fighting performance in his loss, that match was lasted for 2 hrs 35 mins ... But then Sahil played very solid tennis to win his match comfortably ... In doubles again Sahil and Sumit scored fighting win over Spanish pair to complete the victory ... Now tomorrow they r facing 2nd seed Romanian team to place in the semis.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F4, Almaty

[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,844) l (1) Malek Jaziri (TUN,259) 06 36
[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,709) bt (Q) Daniiar Duldaev (KGZ,UNR) 62 62
[R1] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,354) bt Vijayant Malik (IND,567) 57 63 62
[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,UNR) bt (LL) Timur Isaev (KAZ,UNR)
[R1] Rohan Gajjar (IND,601) l (3) Denys Molchanov (UKR,353) 36 46
[R1] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) bt (Q) Ahmadjon Muhammad (TJK,UNR) 62 62

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,709) vs (6) Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,384)
[R2] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,354) vs Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,925)
[R2] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,UNR) vs (5) Siarhei Betau (BLR,340)
[R2] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) vs (2) Siarhei Betau (BLR)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR)

All expected results ... Happy to see Karan passed first tough test against Vijayant in comeback win ... Also Sidharth Rawat got his first ranking point.
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At $10K Savitaipale, Finland

[R1] Shivika Burman(IND,1086) bt (WC) Saana Saarteinen (FIN,1176) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (4) ANDRADY (IND)/ BURMAN (IND) vs DARISHINA (RUS)/ VASILYEVA (RUS)

Good to see Shivika is playing where no other Indian girl played.
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At $10K Istanbul, Turkey

[R1] Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA (IND,713) bt Kimberley CASSAR (MLT,1112) 60 67(4) 64

[R2] Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA (IND,713) vs (4) Anja PRISLAN (SLO,511)

Doubles
[R1] (3) ISAEVA (RUS)/ MILEVSKAYA (BLR) bt BAVISETTI (IND)/ SHRIVASTAVA (IND) 63 64

Nice to see Ashvarya scoring win in foreign $10K event.
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At $10K Sao Paulo 2011, Brazil

[R1] Kyra SHROFF (IND,776) l (2) Andrea BENITEZ (ARG,358) 26 57

Excited to see our players r taking tough route to succeed playing at difficult venues.