Tennis News
At French Open 2012, Paris, France

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)/ Daniele Bracciali (ITA) 64 62
[SF] (5) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 67(2) 36

[F] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)

Juniors
[R2] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jorge Brian Panta Herreros (PER) bt (3) Julien Cagnina (BEL)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 63 76(4)

[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jorge Brian Panta Herreros (PER) vs Andrew Harris (AUS)/ Nick Kyrgios (AUS)

Sania and Mahesh scored comfortable straight sets win over Voskoboeva and Bracciali but Lee and Elena failed to produce dream final when they lost in the semis ... When rain-break came Lee and Elena were leading 3-1 but after break from 5-2 they lost their service game twice and then lost tie-break with erratic play ... Gonzalez and Jans-Ignacik take full advantage of their erratic game and won the second set with double break.

Arjun and his Peruvian partner Jorge scored upset win over third seed pair and book their place in the quarters ... They will face Aussie pair.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Mysore

[R2] (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) bt Gavin VAN PEPERZEEL (AUS,965) 61 63
[R2] (8) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA,588) bt (Q) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND,1921) 61 60
[R2] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,1039) 64 63
[R2] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,548) bt Bowen OUYANG (CHN,774) 63 64
[R2] Saketh MYNENI (IND,590) bt (Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1801) 76(2) 64
[R2] (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND,443) bt (WC) Vinod GOWDA (IND,1543) 60 61
[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1076) bt (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,464) 26 62 63
[R2] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1235) 75 62

Doubles
[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND)/ Sumeet SHINDE (IND) 62 62
[QF] Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt (4) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 76(2) 57 10-1
[QF] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt (WC) Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Yogesh PHOGAT (IND) 63 64
[QF] Venkat IYER (IND)/ Bowen OUYANG (CHN) bt Scott PUODZIUNAS (AUS)/ Gavin VAN PEPERZEEL (AUS) 16 63 10-6

Other than Karan's loss all other results in the singles were expected.
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At $35K Furth Challenger, Germany

[R1] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Peter Torebko (GER)/ Holger Zuehlsdorff-Pavlovic (GER) 62 61

[QF] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Adam Hubble (AUS)/ Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL)

Easy win for Purav and Rameez against local wild-card pair ... Next they r facing Hubble and Statham in the quarters.
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At $25K Women's ITF Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[QF] Anastasia MUKHAMETOVA (RUS)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) l (4) Eugeniya PASHKOVA (RUS)/ Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS) 64 36 3-10

Ankita lost in doubles quarters with her Russian partner against 4th seed Russian pair.
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At $10K Morocco F3 Futures, Casablanca

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,1057) l (1) Jerome Inzerillo (FRA,418) 67(3) 57

Fighting performance from Ramkumar against top-425 player.