Tennis News
At €2.02M Valencia Open, Spain

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Pablo Andujar (ESP)

This week at Valencia they r playing against Spanish pair and r in same top draw with Bryans.
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At € 1.84M Swiss Indoors, Basel, Switzerland

[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Michal Mertinak (SVK) vs Xavier Malisse (BEL)/ Dick Norman (BEL)

This week Mahesh is playing with Michal Mertinak at Swss Indoor ... Lee is missing mostly due to his prior commitment in India, today he was present at Indian Grand Prix ... Mostly he will be back with Mahesh from next week's Paris Masters.
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At $75K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[R1] (1) Somdev Devvarman (IND,81) vs Greg Jones (AUS,184)
[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,854) vs (3) Bobby Reynolds (USA,117)

Sommy in top-seed in his (away)home challenger ... Sanam is received wild-card but facing tough match against 3rd seed Bobby Reynolds.
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At $10K Thailand F4 Futures, Phuket

[Q1] (5) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1490) Bye

[Q2] (5) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1490) l Roy HOBBS (SIN,UNR) 46 46

[R1] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,609) vs (7) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,483)
[R1] (LL) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1490) bt (Q) Kevin JORDI (SUI,UNR) 76(4) 64

Doubles
[R1] HOBBS (SIN)/ TIWARI (IND) vs LERTCHAI (THA)/ LUESANTIA (THA)
[R1] (4) GAJJAR (IND)/ RUNGKAT (INA) bt KHUNDARNPINITVON (THA)/ PRAHMANEE (THA) 62 63

Great to see Abhijeet Tiwari take advantage of facing unranked player to earn one ranking point.
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At $10K Burundi F1 Futures, Bujumbura (clay)

[Q1] Kamal SURESH KUMAR (IND,UNR) l Kevin ALBONETTI (ITA,UNR) 16 36
[Q1] Arvind Vishnu BESTHA (IND,UNR) bt Muheto Ronald RUFYIKIRI (BDI,UNR) 62 60

[R1] Arvind Vishnu BESTHA (IND,UNR) vs Guy Orly IRADUKUNDA (BDI,UNR)

Arvind Vishnu Bestha having a great chance to earn his first ranking point as he is facing local 15 yrs old kid.
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At $10K Kuwait F3 Futures, Meshref

[Q1] Ritwick SUNDAR (IND,UNR) l Fahad AL SAAD (KSA,UNR) 26 46
[Q1] (6) Akash WAGH (IND,1504) bye

[Q2] (6) Akash WAGH (IND,1504) l Tim FOCHT (GER,UNR) 62 36 46

[R1] (LL) Akash WAGH (IND,1504) vs (Q) Richard RUCKELSHAUSEN (AUT,1181)

With his recent form I doubt he has a chance against this former 500 Austrian player ... Waste of 3 weeks which doesn't give him a single ranking point.

Need proper planning in selection of tournaments ... This week he should rested so he can concentrate on 4 weeks of Indian leg which is starting from next week ... Now he will be playing 7 weeks in a row if he play all 4 Indian futures ... For me it is really bad planning.