Tennis News
At $5.03M Indian Wells Masters, USA

[Q1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,250) l (23) Matteo Viola (ITA,123) 26 26

Somi had a decent draw in Indian Wells qualifying against in-form Italian Viola ... But in this match Somi struggled with his service games ... He lost his service games six times and broke opponent's twice ... One of poor show from Somi after long time.
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At $35K Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,266) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,315) 64 62

[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,266) vs (6) Michal Przysiezny (POL,178)

Doubles
[R1] Yuki BHambri (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) bt (ALT) Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN)/ Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN) 62 76(3)

Yuki started cautiously and in the first set he played without taking much risk ... Simply played average tennis keeping ball into play ... Take crucial break in 10th game and then dominated the second set ... He broke Huang twice before winning the first round match ... Next he is facing 6th seed Polish Przysiezny.

In the doubles also Yuki had winning start with his partner against local alternate pair.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Madurai,

Singles First Round
(1) Victor CRIVOI (ROU,236) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,936) 63 61
Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI,832) bt (Q) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE,1221) 64 62
(Q) Patrick CIORCILA (ROU,980) bt (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,UNR) 63 62
(Q) Tom SCHONENBERG (GER,1066) bt (8) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,616) 60 76(4)
(4) Thales TURINI (BRA,436) bt (WC) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1072) 4-0 Retd.
Filippo LEONARDI (ITA,734) bt (WC) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1127) 64 36 63
Claudio FORTUNA (ITA,686) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND,1379) 60 75
(5) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,506) bt (Q) Libor SALABA (CZE,1245) 62 62
(6) Vijayant MALIK (IND,541) bt Austin KAROSI (USA,963) 62 75
(Q) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Rakshay THAKKAR (IND,1551) 62 63
Giulio TORRONI (ITA,733) bt Caio SILVA (BRA,761) 5-1 Retd.
(3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,420) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,792) 61 75
(7) N. Vijay Sunder PRASHANTH (IND,563) bt (WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND,1494) 60 67(6) 63
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,794) bt Augusto LARANJA (BRA,628) 61 26 62
Maximilian DINSLAKEN (GER,748) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND,1111) 61 61
(PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA,UNR) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,313) 64 67(6) 64

Doubles First Round
(1) Caio SILVA (BRA)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Claudio FORTUNA (ITA)/ Allan Gomes OLIVEIRA (BRA) 62 46 10-7
Mats MORAING (GER)/ Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 75 60
(4) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Sagar MANJANNA (IND) / Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 75 62
Maximilian DINSLAKEN (GER)/ Tom SCHONENBERG (GER) bt Libor SALABA (CZE)/ Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) 75 36 10-4
Patrick CIORCILA (ROU)/ Victor CRIVOI (ROU) bt Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 76(5) 62
(3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Austin KAROSI (USA)/ Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI) 61 76(6)
Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 64 75
Filippo LEONARDI (ITA)/ Giulio TORRONI (ITA) bt (2) Augusto LARANJA (BRA) / Thales TURINI (BRA) 62 46 10-8

Good upset win from Ramkumar against higher ranked Brazilian opponent in three sets ... Balaji also gave fighting performance against Wang.