Tennis News
At $1.7M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs (2) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

This week Lee is back on the tour and playing with Tipsarevic ... Tough first round against 2nd seeded pair.
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At $220KBMW Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,129) vs Eleni Daniilidou (GRE,81)

Sania is playing only in the singles at Malaysian Open ... Good decision ... She is facing former top-15 Greece player Eleni Daniilidou in the first round.
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At $50K Singapore Challenger, Singapore

[Q3] Divij Sharan (IND,804) bt (8) Matthew Barton (AUS,609) 76(7) 63
[Q3] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND,469) l (7) Henri Laaksonen (SUI,603) 46 26
[Q3] (3) Karan Rastogi (IND,480) l (5) Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL,556) 26 46

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,290) vs (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,804)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) l Jimmy Wang (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 46 26

Only Divij managed to score upset victory but facing Yuki in the first round ... Other hand Vijayant and Karan lost against lower ranked opponents ... Karan's struggle in the singles is worrying.

Yuki lost in the doubles first round.
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At $10K India F2 Futures 2012, Bhopal

Singles First Round
(1) Patrik Rosenholm (SWE,426) bt Akash Wagh (IND,1204) 63 63
Rupesh Roy (IND,916) bt Richard Gabb (GBR,902) 64 76(5)
N. Sriram Balaji (IND,738) bt (WC) Dineshkanthan Thangarajah (SRI,UNR) 62 63
Sanam Singh (IND,776) bt (6) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,554) 64 62
(4) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,533) bt (Q) Ronak Manuja (IND,UNR) 75 63
Sam Barry (IRL,731) bt (Q) Maik Burlage (GER,1393) 67(5) 60 61
Kenny Bun (CAM,1194) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,894) 16 63 64
(7) Sarvar Ikramov (UZB,670) bt Lucas Renard (SWE,901) 63 36 63
(8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,692) bt (WC) Aaditya Tewari (IND,UNR) 62 62
(Q) Jordi Munoz-Abrue (ESP,1710) bt Mark-Alexander Kepler (GER,938) 64 62
(Q) Rakshay Thakkar (IND,1710) bt (Q) Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE,1237) 76(2) 46 76(5)
(WC) Sidharth Rawat (IND,1398) bt (3) Rohan Gajjar (IND,515) 64 46 75
Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,784) bt (5) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,540) 75 16 3-0 Retd
James Feaver (GBR,770) bt (Q) Miles Bugby (GBR,1318) 64 64
(Q) Chieh-Fu Wang (TPE,761) bt Kunal Anand (IND,1466) 75 75
(2) Arata Onozawa (JPN,518) bt (Q) Vivek Shokeen (IND,1485) 62 62

Doubles First Round
(1) Miles BUGBY (GBR)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Maik BURLAGE (GER)/ Mark-Alexander KEPLER (GER) 46 63 10-8
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 76(4) 61
(3) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) 76(4) 16 10-6
Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) bt Mark FYNN (ZIM)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 67(2) 10-8
(WC) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt (WC) Arpit SHARMA (IND)/ Aaditya TEWARI (IND) 64 64
(4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Rupesh ROY (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 63 64
James FEAVER (GBR)/ Richard GABB (GBR) bt Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) 26 63 10-7
(2) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) bt Shu SAITO (JPN)/ Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE) 76(3) 46 10-7)

Last week's winner Sanam scored dominating win against 6th seed Jeevan, his opponent from junior days ... Sidharth Rawat also scored upset win over Rohan Gajjar ... Rupesh defeated Gabb in the straight sets.