Tennis News
At 2013 Junior Davis Cup (B16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group D
(4) India bt Indonesia 3-0

Garvit BATRA bt Muhammad Iqbal ANSHORI 62 61
Sumit NAGAL bt Ignatius Anthony SUSANTO 62 60
Sumit NAGAL/ Garvit BATRA bt Muhammad Iqbal ANSHORI/ Tio Juliandi HUTAHARUK 64 60

Expected wining start for Indian boys against Indonesian boys.
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At 2013 Junior Fed Cup (G16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group C
(3) India bt Singapore 3-0

Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Joanne, Wei Ling KOH 62 60
Snehadevi REDDY bt Geraldine ANG 60 63
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Vanshika SAWHNEY bt Geraldine ANG/ Angela Shan Min LIM 64 61

Our girls also having winning start against Singapore ... Next they r facing Japanese girls, who today scored upset win over 6th seed Hong Kong.
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At $795K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany (red clay)

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (2) Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

This week Sania is playing with Bethanie at Stuttgart open ... They r facing 2nd seed Petrova and Srebotnik in the first round.
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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA


Doubles Final
(Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt Steve Johnson (USA)/ Bradley Klahn (USA) 67(5) 76(3) 11-9

Somi and Bozo lifted the doubles title in very tight match ... This was Somi's first challenger doubles title ... After losing the first set in tie-break Buji and Bozo won the second set in tie-break ... They needed extra points in match tie-break to lift the title beating Johnson and Klahn.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, USA (green clay)

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs Tennys Sandgren (USA)/ Rhyne Williams (USA)

This week also Somi and Bozo r playing doubles and facing local pair in the first round.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Lucknow

First Round
(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Anushka BHARGAVA (IND) 60 61
Preethi UJJINI (IND) bt Victoria CHEHAL (IND) 75 76(3)
Tanvee BOSE (IND) bt Arushi BHASIN (IND) 75 06 64
Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) bt (5) Natasha PALHA (IND) 57 63 64
(4) Shweta RANA (IND) bt Shubhi DWIVEDI (IND) 61 61
Smriti JOON (IND) bt Niku AMIN (IND) 63 60
Shreya PASRICHA (IND) bt Seema KUMARI (IND) 61 3-0 Retd
Simran Kaur SETHI (IND) bt (7) Angelique SVINOS (AUS) 63 75
(6) Eetee MAHETA (IND) bt Riya BHATIA (IND) 76(7) 26 64
Damini SHARMA (IND) bt Protiksha SHARMA (IND) 61 61
Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) bt Anjana KOMPALLY (IND) 63 36 60
(3) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Amrita MUKHERJEE (IND) 63 63
(8) Emi MUTAGUCHI (JPN) bt Angella RAMAN (IND) 61 60
Bhuvana KALVA (IND) bt Vaniya DANGWAL (IND) 61 75
Sharon Sanchana PAUL (IND) bt Xi-Yao WANG (CHN) 64 63
Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) bt Eeshita PANDE (IND) 61 61

Last week's finalist Natasha Palha and semi-finalist Australian Angelique Svinos lost in the first round ... Otherwise expected results.