Tennis News
At 1.78M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship, UAE

[R2] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,315) l (4) Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG,7) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) bt Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB)63 63
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt (2) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 64 64

[QF] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) vs (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Victor Hanescu (ROU)/ Lukas Rosol (CZE)

Somi failed to convert 3 break point chance on Del Potro's serve but Del Porto converted first break point ... For winning the first set that a single break advantage was enough for Del Porto ... Del Porto broke Somi in 1st game of the second set after long game ... Del Porto kept this one break advantage and won this match with clinical performance ... In the second set Del Porto didn't face a single break point.

Winning start for defending champions Mahesh and Rohan with their respective partners ... Mahesh and Llodra scored comfortable win over Serbian pair ... Rohan managed to keep upper hand over his ex-partner Aisam ... On Sunday he defeated Aisam and Rojer in the title match pairing Colin Fleming ... Here Rohan is back with Rajeev and they also defeated Aisam and Rojer in straight sets.
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At $50K Sydney 1 Challenger, Australia

[R2] Sanam Singh (IND,295) l James Duckworth (AUS,238) 26 67(5)

Doubles
[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL)

After losing the first set easily Sanam had his chances in the second ... He failed to hold his service when serving for the set at 5-4, Sanam lost his serve on luv ... Then he lost tie-break to lose the match ... So old trend continues, again Sanam failed to show consistency in his results after excellent upset.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F2 Futures, Aktobe

[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,257) l Marek Semjan (SVK,452) 26 46

Doubles
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) bt Nurdaulen Baimakhanov (KAZ)/ Alexey Kedryuk (KAZ) 63 63

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) vs (2) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN)

These stupid long breaks from the tour is really not helping Yuki ... Yuki failed to create much challenge to last week's finalist Marek Semjan ... This was Yuki's only 4th match on the tour in new season.

In the doubles Yuki and Safwat scored comfortable win over local pair ... Next they r facing 2nd seed Chinese pair.
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At $10K India F1 Futures, Chennai

Singles Second Round
(1) Victor CRIVOI (ROU) bt Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI) 62 61
(WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND) bt (Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 67(6) 64 62
(4) Thales TURINI (BRA) bt (Q) Mats MORAING (GER) 75 67(8) 76(8)
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Mohd Assri MERZUKI (MAS) 64 62
(7) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 62 64
(3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Giulio TORRONI (ITA) 60 62
(6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (Q) Tom SCHONENBERG (GER) 64 61
(PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) 62 76(3)

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 76(2) 76(5)
(ALT) Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Petar TOMIC (SRB) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 46 63 13-11
(ALT) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE)/ Chih-Jen HO (TPE) bt (3) Augusto LARANJA (BRA)/ Thales TURINI (BRA) 63 26 10-6
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 61 46 10-7

Frenchman proved too strong for 2nd seed Balaji ... Elwin also scored upset win over Vivek.