Tennis News
At €780K Queens Open, London, Great Britain

[R2] (LL) Rohan Bopanna(IND,NR) l Kenny De Schepper (FRA,86) 46 36

Lucky break for Rohan as he entered straight into second round as 8th seed Kevin Anderson who had a first round bye pulled out ... But Rohan lost his serve in 7th game and lost the first set with single break ... Rohan struggled with his 1st serve and Schepper take full advantage of it and broke Rohan twice to completed victory ... So Rohan failed to capitalise on this opportunity.
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At $75K Nottingham-2 Challenger, Great Britain (grass)

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,140) vs (5) Jack Sock (USA,102) 16 76(5) 3-2

Doubles
[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Go Soeda (JPN)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA) 6-6 (4-3)

Buji started disastrously and lost his serve thrice to lose the first set ... In the second set also he was 2-5 down and was facing one-sided loss but made amazing comeback ... He broke Sock twice when he was serving for the match at 5-2 and 5-4 ... Then again Sock broke Somi in 11th game but this time also Somi broke back and then won the tie-break ... In the final set when Somi was leading 3-2 on the serve and 30-all on Sock's serve when match suspended due to rain.

Divij-Purav were 6-6 and leading 4-3 in tie-break when their match also suspended.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Bukhara, Uzbekistan

[R2] (Q) Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) l (7) Mari TANAKA (JPN,328) 26 06
Doubles
[QF] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) l (3) Margarita GASPARYAN (RUS)/ Polina PEKHOVA (BLR) 16 67(4)

Shamada failed to produce challenge to her Japanese opponent ... In the doubles Ankita-Prarthana gave fighting performance in the second set after losing the first set easily against 3rd seed.
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At $15K Germany F5 Futures, Essen (clay)

[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,517) l (3) Nils Langer (GER,311) 67(5) 64 26
[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,421) l Michael Venus (NZL,395) 26 46

Doubles
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND,421) l (1) Christian Harrison (USA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 64 67(3) 6-10

Vijay Sundar gave fighting performance against 3rd seed German before losing this match ... But other hand Vishnu's struggle on the tour continues ... In the doubles also Vijay Sundar-Vishnu lost close match in match tie-break against top-seed pair.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Coimbatore

Singles Second Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND) 61 76(5)
Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) bt (8) Chandril SOOD (IND) 63 63
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) 61 62
(7) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 63
(5) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt Rakshit RISHI (IND)62 64
(4) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) bt (Q) Saurabh PATIL (IND) 62 62
(Q) Abdullah SHAIKH (IND) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 63 61
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) 60 62

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (WC) Sumeet SHINDE (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND)62 63
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 76(4) 57 10-8
Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt (4) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 76(3) 67(5) 13-11
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Sagar MANJANNA (IND) 64 76(4)

Sheikh Abdullah scored another win but next facing Jeevan ... Frankly expected loss of Chandril against Taipei player.
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At $10K Spain F17 Futures, Martos

[R1] Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND,980) bt (Q) Hasier Pastor (ESP,1163) 64 36 64
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,800) bt (Q) Pedro Dominguez Alonso (ESP,1702) 61 64

[R2] Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND,980) vs (7) Pol Toledo Bague (ESP,660)
[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,800) vs Emilien Firmin (FRA,787)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND) bt Philipp Aleksanyan (RUS)/ Ivan Gakhov (RUS) 63 46 10-8

[QF] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND) vs Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP)/ David Vega Hernandez (ESP)

Ashwin won his first round match in 3 sets against Spanish qualifier ... Next he is facing young 18 yrs old talented Pol Toledo Bague ... Ramkumar also started with comfortable win ... Next he is facing similar ranked Frenchman, who upset seeded countryman in the first round.

In the doubles Ramkumar-Ashwin started with close win over Russian pair.