Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) vs (WC) Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,1359)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Egor Gerasimov (BLR)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) 64 76(2)

Good chance for Yuki to earn few more important ranking points ... This week he is at a career-high ranking of #211 in singles and #271 in doubles.

In doubles Yuki and Divij had a winning start in two tight sets.
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At $50K Wuhan Challenger, China

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,465) vs (5) Ze Zhang (CHN,)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,397) vs Benjamin Balleret (MON,403)

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) bt Benjamin Balleret (MON)/ Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) 61 63
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Laurent Rochette (FRA) vs Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN)

Hoping for revenge from Jeevan in the singles against Benjamin Balleret.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

[R1] (1) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,473) bt Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,931) 75 63
[R1] Elbert SIE (INA,868) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,UNR) 60 60
[R1] (Q) Bastien FAVIER (FRA,1774) bt (WC) Rishabdev RAMAN (IND,UNR) 63 64
[R1] (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) bt Chih-Jen HO (TPE,1195) 61 61
[R1] (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND,1344) 61 60
[R1] (Q) Chandril SOOD (IND,1707) bt (Q) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,1707) 62 63
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,936) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1300) 62 64
[R1] (6) Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,759) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1232) 46 63 62
[R1] (8) Karunduay SINGH (IND,823) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,932) 64 67(6) 75
[R1] Jeson PATROMBON (PHI,881) bt (WC) Aditya Hari SASONGKO (INA,1471) 60 46 75
[R1] Yang LU (CHN,1215) bt Austin KAROSI (USA,1266) 62 61
[R1] (3) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,566) bt (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND,UNR) 63 63
[R1] (5) N Vijay Sunder PRASHANTH (IND,755) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,854) 76(1) 57 62
[R1] (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1320) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1212) 64 76(6)
[R1] (WC) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND,1522) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,952) 61 76(4)
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND,UNR) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Fei Yun LIAO (TPE)/ Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE) 75 75
[R1] Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Jae-Min SEOL (KOR) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 61 64
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt (4) Aditya Hari SASONGKO (INA)/ Elbert SIE (INA) 76(4) 60
[R1] Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA)/ Bastien FAVIER (FRA) bt Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) 75 62
[R1] (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND)/ Jeson PATROMBON (PHI) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 26 10-4
[R1] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 63 62
[R1] Chih-Jen HO (TPE)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) bt (WC) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Saurabh SINGH (IND) 62 75
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 64 64

Sudanwa Sitaram scored big upset win over in-form Sidharth in the straight sets ... In doubles wild-card pairing of Arjun Kadhe with his Filipino partner started with upset win.
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At $10K Turkey F29 Futures, Izmir

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1042) vs Brian GROOMS (USA,1409)

This week Ramkumar is not in the doubles draw ... In the singles he is having winnable first round match.