Tennis News
At $75K Nottingham-2 Challenger, Great Britain (grass)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,140) vs (Q) Brydan Klein (GBR,253)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) 61 36 10-7

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Go Soeda (JPN)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA)

Tough matches for Buji ... Other hand very good win for Purav and Divij in their first match of the grass against good pair ... It would be great if they get couple of more matches before Wimbledon qualifying.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND,430) bye [Q1] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) bt(6) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,580) 57 62 76(5)
[Q1] (8) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,686) bt Amina MUKHAMETSHINA (UZB,UNR) 61 62

[Q2] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND,430) bt Guzal YUSUPOVA (UZB,UNR) 61 61
[Q2] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) bt (14) Anna SMOLINA (RUS,801) 63 60
[Q2] (8) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,686) l (13) Miyu KATO (JPN,769) 26 62 57

[R1] (Q) Ankita RAINA (IND,430) vs (Q) Indy DE VROOME (NED,467)
[R1] (Q) Sharmada BALU (IND,NR) vs (WC) Arina FOLTS (UZB,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Ksenia KIRILLOVA (RUS)/ Polina MONOVA (RUS) 62 16 10-6
[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Kamila KERIMBAYEVA (KAZ) l (1) Angelina GABUEVA (RUS)/ Veronika KAPSHAY (UKR) 16 26

After terrific last week Ankita qualify for the main-draw this week with Balua ... And also good win in doubles for Ankita and Prarthana.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Coimbatore

Singles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 61 62
(WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND) bt (Q) Vijay KANNAN (IND) 64 75
Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS) 63 64
(8) Chandril SOOD (IND) bt (Q) Sumeet SHINDE (IND) 67(5) 63 3-1 Retd.
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 64 62
Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 63 63
Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 62 62
(7) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (Q) Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND) 63 63
(5) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (WC) Tarun Nath SURATH (IND) 63 61
Rakshit RISHI (IND) bt (LL) Bharatram BALAJEE (IND) 67(7) 64 75
(Q) Saurabh PATIL (IND) bt Anvit BENDRE (IND) 46 63 64
(4) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) bt (WC) Lakshit SOOD (IND) 62 63
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt (6) Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 62 46 76(5)
(Q) Abdullah SHAIKH (IND) bt (Q) Suraj BENIWAL (IND) 60 3-0 Retd.
(Q) Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) bt Sagar MANJANNA (IND) 75 62
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) 62 61

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) 62 62
(WC) Sumeet SHINDE (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND)/ Rakshit RISHI (IND) 61 75
Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) bt (3) Amrit NARASIMHAN (USA)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 62 46 10-8
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Arpit SHARMA (IND)/ Aaditya TEWARI (IND) 67(4) 76(5) 10-8
Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Saurabh PATIL (IND) 64 62
(4) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (WC) Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND)/ Fahad MOHAMMED (IND) 75 63
Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Sagar MANJANNA (IND) bt (WC) Srikar ALLA (IND)/ Tarun Nath SURATH (IND) 64 64
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS) 76(1) 64

Small upset of Anvit and Sagar in the singles.