Tennis News
At $10K India F16 Futures, Dharwad

[QF] (Q) Torsten WIETOSKA (GER,1508) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,347) 46 75 57
[QF] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1083) bt Arjun KADHE (IND,1224) 64 67(3) 61
[QF] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,534) bt (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,573) 63 62
[QF] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,360) bt Colin VAN BEEM (NED,1076) 64 64

Doubles
[SF] Amrit NARASIMHAN (USA)/ Michael SHABAZ (USA) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 63 62
[SF] Ajai SELVARAJ (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (2) Sergei KROTIOUK (RUS)/ Luca MARGAROLI (SUI) 63 75

German qualifier Wietoska continued with giant-killing ... He scored biggest upset beating top-seed Balaji ... After losing the first set Balaji fought back to win tight second set ... In the decider Wietoska take crucial break 11th game for a win ... Ramkumar won the battle between youngster ... He showed Arjun that he is better player and having more stamina than him after winning the decider comfortably ... Other hand expected victories for Sanam and Ranjeet.

Good upset win by Ashwin and Ajai against 2nd seed Swiss-Russian pair in the doubles semis.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Djibouti

[QF] (8) Shweta RANA (IND,835) l (1) Anna FLORIS (ITA,245) 26 36

Doubles
[QF] Arantxa ANDRADY (IND)/ Shweta RANA (IND) l (1) Melanie KLAFFNER (AUT)/ Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) 36 67(4)

Respectable final score for Shweta Rana against top-250 Italian player Floris.