Tennis News
At $35K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,280) bt Conor Niland (IRL,310) 61 63

Doubles
[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) l (WC) Takuto Niki (JPN)/ Bumpei Sato (JPN) 46 76(3) 7-10

Yuki broke Conor in the second and fourth games to take 5-0 lead ... Conor hold his serve in 6th game and then Yuki comfortably hold to won the first set ... In the second set Yuki broke Conor in the first game ... Yuki saved a break point in 4th game and wasted one break point chance in next game ... Yuki again broke him in 9th game to completed victory in 54 minutes ... Very dominating win by Yuki against experienced challenger level player.

In doubles final qualifying Yuki lost in super tie-break with Ti Chen against local pair.
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At $10K+H India F3 Futures 2012, Bhimavaram

Singles First Round
(1) Patrick ROSENHOLM (SWE,426) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE,901) 76(4) 75
(WC) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1485) bt (WC) Suresh KRISHNA (IND,1783) 76(2) 63
Sam BARRY (IRL,731) bt Rupesh ROY (IND,916) 62 62
(8) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,554) bt (Q) Mark-Alexander KEPLER (GER,938) 62 75
(3) Karan RASTOGI (IND,480) bt (Q) Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE,1237) 62 61
(Q) Jordi MUNOZ-ABREU (ESP,1710) bt (Q) Miles BUGBY (GBR,1318) 16 62 61
Saketh MYNENI (IND,689) bt N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,738) 76(6) 63
(5) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,518) bt (Q) Rakshay THAKKAR (IND,1710) 64 61
(6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,533) bt Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,761) 36 62 61
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt (WC) Akash WAGH (IND,1204) 60 60
James FEAVER (GBR,770) bt (WC) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,938) 64 26 64
Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,784) bt (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,515) 26 63 76(2)
(7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,540) bt (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,UNR) 64 61
Richard GABB (GBR,902) bt (Q) Daniiar DULDAEV (KGZ,1443) 63 67(5) 63
(Q) Matthieu VIERIN (ITA,1475) bt N Vijay Sunder PRASHANTH (IND,692) 63 46 63
Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,670) bt (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,469) 63 26 76(0)

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt James FEAVER (GBR)/ Richard GABB (GBR) 62 62
Rupesh ROY (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt Maik BURLAGE (GER)/ Mark-Alexander KEPLER (GER) 36 76(8) 10-2
(3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 63 63
(WC) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (WC) Mohammed Ashraf MOHAMMED (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 60 63
Jordi MUNOZ-ABREU (ESP)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) bt Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE)/ Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE) 64 16 10-4
(4) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Daniiar DULDAEV (KGZ)/ Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB) 62 64
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) bt Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN(IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) 62 36 10-5
(2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Motoaki KITA (JPN)/ Lucas RENARD (SWE) 62 63

Jeevan and Vivek had a winning start but Vijay Sunder lost against Italian qualifier in the first round ... Shocking results for our seeded players, 2nd seed Vijayant and 4th seed Rohan Gajjar lost in the first round ... Saketh scored win over Balaji, which was match of the first round and Sanam tamed Akash when he double bageled Akash.

In doubles quarter-final only a single pair is non-Indian.