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

[QF] (3) Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA) 57 46

They lost against American pair in the second round ... In the both sets Sania lost her serve while serving for staying in the match.

So with this end of the season 2012 for Sania.
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At Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-Off, Nanjing, China

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,360) l (WC) Ze Zhang (CHN,154) 75 26 26
[R1] (WC) Sriram Balaji (IND,321) l Di Wu (CHN,185) 26 16
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,272) bt (WC) Hsin Han Lee (TPE,817) 62 63
[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,179) bt (LL) Yuqing Ning (CHN,1534) 64 36 62
[R1] (WC) Prerna Bhambri (IND) l (Q) Yifan Xu (CHN,414) 16 16
[R1] (WC) Ankita Raina (IND,) l (WC) Yuxuan Zhang (CHN,245) 16 16

[QF] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,179) vs (2) Jimmy Wang (TPE,146)
[QF] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,272) l (3) Danai Udomchoke (THA,153) w/o (knee injury)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) l (WC) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN) 67(1) 46
[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l (4) Danai Udomchoke (THA)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 46 16
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (WC) Di Wu (CHN)/ Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) 46 57

Turned to be terrible day for Indians ... Only Vishnu and Yuki managed to script wins in the singles but shocking losses in the doubles for our seeded pairs ... Moreover Vishnu injured his knee in the doubles and he decided to give walkover to Danai in the singles quarter-final.

Only Yuki is remaining in the draw and he is facing 2nd seed Wang.
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At $25K Lagos Women's ITF Tournament, Nigeria

Doubles
[QF] Ester Masuri (ISR)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) l (4) Keren Shlomo (ISR)/ Jasmin Steinherr (GER) 67(5) 16
[QF] Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) l (1) Nina Bratchikova (RUS)/ Margarita Lazareva (RUS) 46 26

End of Indian challenge in this Lagos tournament.