Tennis News
At $500K KDB Korea Open, Seoul

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND) / Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) vs Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Vania King (USA)

Bethanie is injured so Sania is again playing with new partner and facing tricky first round match against King and Amanmuradova.
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At $75K Izmir Cup, Turkey

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Drew Courtney (USA) bt (1) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 63 62

Purav and Drew scored very comfortable win against top-seed pair ... Good start for them.
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At $10K Vietnam F5 Futures, Binh Duong

[R1] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,477) bt (Q) Nuttanon Kadchapanan (THA,1878) 63 57 60
[R1] (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,941) bt Hyun-Woo Nam (KOR,662) 36 63 62
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,536) l (5) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN,442) 36 76(5) 16

[R2] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,477) vs (WC) Minh-Quan Do (VIE,1290)
[R2] (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,941) vs Junn Mitsuhashi (JPN,658)

Kaza scored excellent upset win over experienced Korean Nam ... Vijay Sundar lost against his Chinese opponent ... Vijayant needed 3 sets against Thai youngster.
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At $10K USA F25 Futures, Costa Mesa, USA

[R1] (SE) Prakash Amritraj (IND,UNR) vs Ya-Nan Ma (CHN,1026)

Prakash received special exemption in main-draw for this futures as he reached the final in last week's US 24 futures.