Tennis News
At $551K Thailand Open, Bangkok

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) l (4) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) 76(6) 46 8-10

Lee and Horia Tecau lost in the semis against Butorac and Hanley ... Lee and Horia won the first set in tie-break ... In the second set Butorac and Hanley broke Lee in 7th game, Lee and Horia had a break point in 10th game but Butorac won the set with ace ... In match tie-break Butorac and Hanley kept early mini-break advantage to complete the victory.
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At $10K USA F26 Futures, Irvine

[QF] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,945) bt (6) Dennis Lajola (USA, 552) 63 67(5) 64

[SF] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,945) vs (1) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,333)

Prakash needed three sets to beat in-form American Dennis Lajola ... With this win he is in the semis, where he meet top-seed British Alex Bogdanovic.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Gulbarga, Karnataka

[SF] Prerna Bhambri (IND) bt Nan Nan Zhang (CHN) 62 62
[SF] (4) Zi Yang (CHN) bt (1) Wang Yau Venise Chan (HKG) 60 60

[QF] (4) Zi Yang (CHN) bt (WC) Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy (IND) 61 60
[QF] Nan Nan Zhang (CHN) bt (WC) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) 76(2) 60
[QF] Prerna Bhambri (IND) bt (2) Emily Webley- Smith (GBR) 75 1-2 Retd.

[R2] (1) Wang Yau Venise Chan (HKG) bt (Q) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) 62 64
[R2] (WC) Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy (IND) bt Natasha Palha (IND) 76(2) 36 61
[R2] (WC) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) bt (3) Kyra Shroff (IND) 63 60
[R2] Prerna Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Spruti Shivalingaiah (IND) 64 46 63

[R1] (Q) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) bt Sweta Rana (IND) 64 63
[R1] (Q) Oleksandra Korashvili (UKR) bt (6) Ankita Raina (IND) 75 61
[R1] (4) Zi Yang (CHN) bt Rutuja Bhosale (IND) 60 60
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND) bt (Q) Shalaka Uddur Manjunath (IND) 75 62
[R1] (WC) Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy (IND) bt (5) Rishika Sunkara (IND) 76(6) 64
[R1] Ju-Eun Kim (KOR) bt (Q) Riya Bhatia (IND) 61 60
[R1] (WC) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) bt Napatsakorn Sankaew (THA) 76(5) 46 64
[R1] (3) Kyra Shroff (IND) bt (WC) Sai Samhitha Chamarthi (IND) 76(2) 61
[R1] (WC) Spruti Shivalingaiah (IND) bt (8) Nidhi Chilumula (IND) 61 36 63
[R1] Prerna Bhambri (IND) bt Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) 75 62
[R1] Misa Kinoshita (JPN) bt Shivika Burman (IND) 61 60

Excellent result for Prerna, who is in the final in this tough $10K tournament.