Tennis News
At $740K Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[R1] (3) Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Darya Kustova (BLR)/ Olga Savchuk (UKR) 63 57 10-6

Sania and Nuria started with win though they r stretched to match tie-break by their opponents.
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At Asia-Pacific Wild-Card play-Off for Australian Open 2013, Nanjing, China

[Q3] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,360) bt De Zhu (CHN,UNR) 63 61

[Q4] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,360) vs Yuqing Ning (CHN,1534)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bye
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Sanam Singh (IND) vs (Q) Zhaoyi Cao (CHN)/ Andy Lau (HKG)
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Yuqing Ning (CHN)/ Zhuoyang Qiu (CHN)

[R1] Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Ankita Raina (IND) vs Ting Li (CHN)/ Qiang Wang (CHN)

Expected easy wins for Sanam after receiving bye in the first 2 qualifying rounds.

In the doubles, top-seed Yuki and Divij having favorable draw but Vishnu and Purav can face Chinese top pair of Xin Gao and Zhe Li in the quarters.
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At $25K Lagos Women's ITF Tournament, Nigeria

[R1] Kyra SHROFF (IND,536) l (WC) Zarah RAZAFIMAHATRATRA (MAD,UNR) 67(5) 06
[R1] Rishika SUNKARA (IND,631) bt Maria SAKKARI (GRE,582) 63 62
[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,681) l (5) Christina DINU (ROU,301) 16 16
[R1] Shivika BURMAN (IND,861) l Jia Xiang LU (CHN,613) 46 36
[R1] (Q) Nikita DESHMUKH (IND,UNR) l (3) Conny PERRIN (SUI,295) 06 06
[R1] (Q) Arantxa ANDRADY (IND,UNR) l (Q) Ester MASURI (ISR,UNR) 16 26

Doubles
[R1] Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) vs Sofia Dmitrieva (RUS)/ Alexandra Riley (USA)
[R1] Ester Masuri (ISR)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt Shivika Burman (IND)/ Nour Azzouz (EGY) 62 60
[R1] Nidhi Chilumula (IND)/ Ushna Suhail (PAK) l (3) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN)/ Jia Xiang Lu (CHN) 26 63 4-10

Poor start for our girls in the singles ... Only Rishika scored win, that's also upset win, over Greece player in dominating manner.