Tennis News
At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE) vs Cara Black (ZIM)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)
[R1] (7) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)
[R1] Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)/ Daniele Bracciali (ITA)
[R1] Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE)

Interesting pairing in the mixed doubles ... First time Sania is getting top seeding in the grandslam but she is with Robert having tricky first round against Aisam-Cara ... This time Vesnina is playing with mad Max so Lee is pairing with Jelena Jankovic ... Rohan and Mahesh having Aussie partners.
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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (WC) Saurabh PATIL (IND) 61 62
(Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (WC) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 60 46 60
Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND) 26 76(3) 63
(6) Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt (WC) U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 60 62
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 61
Jatin DAHIYA (IND) bt (Q) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 46 63 62
(Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) 76(3) 63
(7) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 26 76(1) 64
(5) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) bt (Q) Suraj BENIWAL (IND) 61 61
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) 64 57 76(2)
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (Q) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND) 61 62
(4) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 62 75
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (Q) Anvit BENDRE (IND) 64 60
Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt (Q) Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) 62 62
Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt (Q) Sagar AHUJA (IND) 60 62
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (WC) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 62 63

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 61 61
Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 75 67(4) 10-4
(4) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt (WC) Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND)/ Garry TOKAS (IND) 46 64 10-7
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Saurabh PATIL (IND) 63 63
Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND)/ Arpit SHARMA (IND) 62 62
(3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt (WC) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 61 62
Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 46 76(6) 10-8
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Rithvik ANAND (IND)/ Fahad MOHAMMED (IND) 63 62

Hard fought win for Prajnesh ... Also good upset win by 16 yrs old Garvit against Neeraj ... As per draw interesting quarter-final between Karunuday and Jeevan if both win their respective matches.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[R1] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt Phassawit BURAPHARITTA (THA,UNR) 63 62

[R2] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs (Q) Blake MOTT(AUS,1265)

Doubles
[R1] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (4) Hiroyasu EHARA (JPN)/ Sho KATAYAMA (JPN) 63 63

[QF] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) vs Elbert SIE (INA)/ David Agung SUSANTO (INA)

Expected winning start in the singles for Saketh ... In the doubles Saketh with American partner scored upset win over 4th seed Japanese pair.