Tennis News
At 2012 Davis Cup - Asia/Oceania - Group I, Namangan, Uzbekistan (Indoor clay)

India vs Uzbekistan 0-2

Day 1
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,446) l Denis Istomin (UZB,43) 36 26 46
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,295) l Farrukh Dustov (UZB,262) 46 46 36

Was hoping upset from Yuki but Yuki failed to deliver fighting performance on indoor clay ... Sanam gave decent performance against top-50 Istomin.
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At $740K Family Circle Cup, Charleston, USA

[R2] (3) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (WC) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Luci Safarova (CZE) 76() 1-2

Our pair won the first set in tie-break but match was stopped due to heavy rain in the second.
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At $10K Kazakhstan F2 Futures 2012, Astana

[SF] (2) Karan Rastogi (IND,477) l (8) Alexey Vatutin (RUS,858) 57 36

Vatutin broke Karan in 11th game to won the first set ... In the second set Vatutin take early break and kept that lead to won the second set.

In whole tournament Karan struggled with all opponents and lost against below 850 ranked opponent ... Sad to see his struggle.
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At $10K Saudi Arabia F1 futures 2012, Riyadh

[F] Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Joshua JONES (GBR)/ Matthew SHORT (GBR) 75 75

Ashwin lifted his first ITF futures title after winning doubles with his Australian partner Zach Itzstein ... They defeated British doubles pair in the final ... Though they won this match in straight sets still both sets were closely fought.
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At $10K Vietnam F1 futures 2012, Ho Chi Minh City

[F] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (1) Dane PROPOGGIA (AUS)/ Jose STATHAM (NZL) 63 64

Sriram Balaji and Rohan lifted doubles title beating top-seed pair in straight sets ... Hopefully next week they perform better in the singles also.