Tennis News
At French Open 2012, Paris, France

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (2) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 62 63

Juniors
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,93) l Nick Kyrgios (AUS,27) 36 36

[R2] Ratnika Batra (IND,64) l Antonia Lottner (GER,32) 16 26

Sania and Mahesh scored very comfortable win over 2nd seed Mike Bryan and Kveta Peschke and enter into the semis ... They r making strong case for the Olympics MXD pairing.

After her excellent first round win Ratnika Batra lost against in-form German Antonia Lottner in the second round ... Arjun lost in the first round against higher ranked Australian.
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At $75K Aegon Trophy Challenger, Nottingham, England

[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,812) bt Manual Sanchez (MEX,703) 64 64
[Q2] Divij Sharan (IND, 812) l (6) Frederik Nielsen (DEN,259) 26 26

Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Tatsuma Ito (JPN) vs (WC) David Rice (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR)

Divij played singles qualifying ... After scoring win against Mexican opponent in the first round veteran Danish player Frederik Nielsen proved too strong for him.
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At $35K Furth Challenger, Germany

[R1] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Peter Torebko (GER)/ Holger Zuehlsdorff-Pavlovic (GER)

Purav decide to play on red clay and partnering Aussie Rameez Junaid at Furth challenger.
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At $25K Women's ITF Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (3) Kyra Shroff (IND,637) bt Yevgeniya Rezepkina (KAZ,UNR) 61 60
[Q1] (8) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,750) bt Maftunabonu Saidova (UZB,UNR) 60 60
[Q1] (14) Ankita Raina (IND,831) bt Madina Khatamova (UZB,UNR) 60 60

[Q2] (3) Kyra Shroff (IND,637) bt (14) Ankita Raina (IND,831) 64 06 76(9)
[Q2] (8) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,750) bt (16) Kamilla Farhad (AZE,1178) 61 61

[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,750) vs (Q) Lin Zhu (CHN,591)
[R1] (Q) Kyra Shroff (IND,637) vs (5) Valentyna Ivakhnenko (UKR,270)

Doubles
[R1] Anastasia MUKHAMETOVA (RUS)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Kamilla FARHAD (AZE)/ Anastasiya PRENKO (TKM) 61 64

Good to see our players r playing outside of India in tougher tournaments ... Good to see Kyra and Nidhi qualified for main-draw ... Ankita was unlucky to face Kyra in the final qualifying but gave fighting performance ... Ankita r in the doubles quarter with her Russian partner ... In the singles Kyra having very tough match against top-275 Ukrainian player ... Nidhi is also facing Top-600 Chinese opponent.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Mysore

[R1] (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) bt (WC) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,UNR) 62 62
[R1] Gavin VAN PEPERZEEL (AUS,965) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,942) 61 62
[R1] (Q) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND,1921) bt (Q) Viju GEORGE JR (USA,1801) 64 61
[R1] (8) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA,588) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,908) 63 63
[R1] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) bt (Q) Venkat IYER (IND,UNR) 60 62
[R1] Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,1039) bt (Q) Sagar MANJANNA (IND,UNR) 63 63
[R1] Bowen OUYANG (CHN,774) bt Scott PUODZIUNAS (AUS,1322) 63 76(3)
[R1] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,548) bt (Q) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND,1742) 63 62
[R1] Saketh MYNENI (IND,590) bt (6) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,488) 63 64
[R1] (Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1801) bt (WC) Saurabh SINGH (IND,UNR) 61 76(3)
[R1] (WC) Vinod GOWDA (IND,1543) bt (WC) Suraj R PRABODH (IND,UNR) 62 62
[R1] (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND,443) bt Sebastien BOLTZ (FRA,710) 63 62
[R1] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,464) bt Warit SORNBUTNARK (THA,1081) 64 64
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1076) bt Francesco VILARDO (ITA,835) 64 64
[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1235) bt (Q) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,UNR) 61 62
[R1] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND,1536) 61 62

Doubles
[R1] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Sebastien BOLTZ (FRA)/ Francesco VILARDO (ITA) 63 63
[R1] (WC) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND)/ Sumeet SHINDE (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Saurabh PATIL (IND) 62 75
[R1] (4) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND)/ Aditya TEWARI (IND) 75 75
[R1] Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Warit SORNBUTNARK (THA)/ Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 62 64
[R1] (WC) Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Yogesh PHOGAT (IND) bt (WC) Vishwanath SAVADI (IND)/ Darshan SRINIVASA (IND) 63 62
[R1] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt (3) Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 76(4) 36 10-8
[R1] Scott PUODZIUNAS (AUS)/ Gavin VAN PEPERZEEL (AUS) bt Vinod GOWDA (IND)/ Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 63 61
[R1] Venkat IYER (IND)/ Bowen OUYANG (CHN) bt (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 46 63 10-8

Good upset win by Sidharth Rawat over Italian ... Expected win from Kaza ... Otherwise expected results in the first round ... Saketh scored comfortable win over Ranjeet ... In doubles, Venkat Iyer with his Chinese partner Bowen Ouyang scored comeback upset win over 2nd seed Jeevan and Vijayant ... Kunal and Ajai also defeated seeded pair of Ashwin and Zach.
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At $10K Morocco F3 Futures, Casablanca

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,1057) bt Adam Sanjurjo Hermida (ESP,809) 64 64

Happy for Ramkumar who scored his first win in this ongoing Moroccan futures series.