Tennis News
At $2.36M Rome WTA Premier Tournament, Italy

[R1] (6) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Shuko Aoyama (JPN)/ Liga Dekmeijere (LAT) 61 63

[R2] (6) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Francesca Schiavone (ITA)/ Samantha Stosur (AUS)

Expected easy winning start for Sania and Bethanie but next they r facing tough pairing of Stosur and Schiavone.
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At $50K Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan (Red clay)

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,408) l Marc Giner (ESP,261) 36 26

Expected loss in the singles for Vishnu against his Spanish opponent ... In the first set Vishnu broke his Giner twice but other hand Giner broke him thrice ... In the second set Giner broke Vishnu twice but Vishnu failed to broke him despite 4 break point chances.
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At $10K Czech Republic F1 Futures, Most (clay)

[Q1] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,894) bye
[Q2] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,894) bt Moritz DETTINGER (GER,NR) 62 67(3) 62
[Q3] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,894) bt David NOVOTNY (GER,NR) 61 61

[R1] (Q) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,894) bt Torsten WIETOSKA (GER,654) 64 61

Prajnesh is coming out of injury and he is really enterprising to select Czech futures on the clay ... He qualified for maindraw and scored creditable win over higher ranked German opponent on the European clay.
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At $10K Spain F14 Futures, Valldoreix (clay)

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,804) bt (Q) Ricardo OJEDA LARA (ESP,892) 36 62 64

After three first round losses in Spanish futures Ramkumar scored a win this week ... Happy to see he is keeping his head high despite all those losses.