Tennis News
At $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger, South Africa,

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,364) l Mate Pavic (CRO,361) 76(4) 46 46
[R1] (2) Rajeev Ram (USA,115) bt Ruan Roelofse (RSA,506) 67(4) 63 64

Doubles
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Jean Andersen (RSA)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA) 63 64

[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Fabiano De Paula (BRA)/ Thales Turini (BRA)
[QF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) vs (1) Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)

Prakash lost in the three sets against Pavic ... In the first set both players broke opponent's serve once but Ka$h played solid tie-break ... In next two sets Pavic broke Ka$h service game early and kept that advantage for winning the match ... Prakash had 5 break points in 3rd set when Pavic was serving for the match at 4-5 but failed to convert.

Divij and Purav had solid winning start in their doubles match against local pair ... Next they r facing Brazilian pair.
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At $50K An-ning Challenger, China

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,390) bt (7) Vincent Millot (FRA,206)

[R2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,390) vs Danilo Petrovic (SRB,461)

Jeevan scored his first win at challenger level, that was also against top-200 type Frenchman on the red clay ... In the first set he was up 3-0 but Millot broke back to make it 3-4 but again Jeevan broke him and won the first set ... In the second set Millot broke Jeevan early and kept that advantage for winning this set ... In the final set both players traded early break but from 2-all Jeevan won next 4 games for excellent win ... Next he is facing Serbian opponent.
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At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, USA (green clay)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,184) l (7) Denis Kudla (USA,143) 67(4) 46

Buji completed another poor week with lost against Kudla in straight sets ... Next he will be playing Roland Garros qualies.