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At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) bt Robin Haase (NED)/ Dominic Inglot (ENG) 76(4) 36 11-9

Doubles
Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) l (1) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Bob Bryan (USA) 76(4) 46 3-10

Rohan-Andre lost in the match tie-break against Bryans in the final ... They won the first set in tie-break but afterwards Bryans took contorl of the match as they dominated the match tie-break after winning the second.

Before that, Rohan-Andre were in the final against Bryans after completing win against Haase-Inglot ... After twinning the first set in tie-break they lost the second ... In the match tie-break, both pair had multiple mini-breaks but Rohan-Andre converted their second match point.

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At $25K China F10 Futures 2017, Kunshan

[QF] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt Karunuday SINGH (IND,814) 61 61

[SF] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) vs Martins PODZUS (LAT,792)

Prajnesh proved too strong for KU as Prajnesh lost only 2 games in his dominating win ... Next, he is facing Latvian Martins Podzus, who scored upset win over 3rd seed Chinese Fajing Sun.

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At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

Women's Doubles - (13) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND)
Men's Doubles - (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

I didn't know that Sania has changed partner and participating with Kirsten Flipkens ... They r lowly 13th seed, but Rohan with Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin r 8th seed ... Flipkens has a shoulder injury so still not sure about her partcipation in big W ...

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At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) bt (ALT) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 63 64

[QF] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) l Robin Haase (NED)/ Dominic Inglot (ENG) 67(3) 16
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) bt Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 62 67(2) 10-3

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) vs Robin Haase (NED)/ Dominic Inglot (ENG)

Rohan and Andre scored back to back victories for entering into the semis ... Next, they r facing Haase-Inglot, who defeated Jeevan and his partner Matt Reid in the quarters.

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At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[QF] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) l Marcos Baghdatis (CYP,79) 76(0) 36 67(6)

Doubles
[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l (2) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 46 46

Terrific fighting perfromance by RamK in this loss ... After winning the first set in the tie-break, RamK lost the second set with doubles break ... But RamK recovered in the third to take the set in the tie-break ... There RamK was down five match points, 1-6, he saved all those 5 match points for 6-all but lost next 2 for losing this match.

Lee-Adil failed to challenge 2nd seed Marach-Pavic and lost in the straight sets.

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At $25K China F10 Futures 2017, Kunshan

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,814) bt Xi QI (CHN,1319) 62 62
[R1] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt (WC) Runhao HUA (CHN,UNR) 60 76(3)

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,814) bt (7) Rigele TE (CHN,634) 75 64
[R2] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt Tianjia GUO (CHN,NR) 60 63

[QF] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) vs Karunuday SINGH (IND,814)

KU scored excellent win over 7th seed local player Te and facing Prajnesh in the quarters.

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At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) vs (ALT) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luke Saville (AUS)

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At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Carlos Berlocq (ARG)/ Joao Sousa (POR) 61 62
[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 67(9) 76(4) 4-10

[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs (2) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Lee-Adil scored expected a dominant win over Berlocq-Sousa pairing without losing three games ... Next, they r facing 2nd seed Pavic-Marach, who scored a tight win over Divij-Purav in the quarters.

Divij-Purav lost in more than 2 hrs long match against Pavic-Marach ... In this match, both pairs failed to break other service game but our pair had 8 break points chances, though 6 of them in the second ... In the match tie-break, our pair was 0-7 down so lost it easily.

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At $753K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England (Premier)

[R1] Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) w/o

Not a right big W preparation for Saina.

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At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[R2] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) bt (1) Dominic Thiem (AUT,8) 63 62

[QF] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP,79)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Wesley Koolhof (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 36 75 11-9

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Carlos Berlocq (ARG)/ Joao Sousa (POR)
[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

I m speechless after RamK's performance ... He defeated undoubtfully the hottest #NextGenATP player of 2017, Dominic Thiem, convincingly on the grass ... This is one of the best win by an Indian in recent years, beating top-10 player on the tour ... In the first set, he broke Thiem in 2nd game to take 3-0 lead and kept this one break advantage for winning the set ... In the second set from 2-all, he broke Thiem in 5th and 7th games for winning it comfortably ... In this match, RamK produced huge serves and powerful forehands ... Next, he is facing veteran and very experienced Marcos Baghdatis.

Lee-Adil produced excellent comeback win over Dutch pair for entering into the quarters ... After losing the first set they fought hard for winning the second and the match tie-break on extra points ... Next, they r facing Carlos Berlocq and Joao Sousa.

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At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

For the first time in his career, Jeevan earned a chance to make his Grand Slam debut but an ankle injury to his partner Hyeon Chung almost killed his dream.

However, American Jared Donaldson came as his saviour and agreed to play with the Indian left-hander at the most prestigious grass court tournament ... Rohan's connection really helped Jeevan to clinching Jared as partner.

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At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) bt (3) Ryan Harrison (USA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 63 36 10-7

Impressive win by Jeevan with Matt Reid over current French open champions, Harrison and Venus ... After winning the first set Jeev and Matt lost the second set but they recovered for winning the match tie-break.

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At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) bt Rogerio Dutra Silva (BRA,68) 63 64

[R2] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) vs (1) Dominic Thiem (AUT,7)

Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ David Ferrer (ESP) 76(4) 62

RamK scored his best-ever ranking wise win over top-70 Dutra Silva in straight sets and book his match against #NextGen Dominic Thiem.

In the first round, RamK never gave chance to Rogerio of settling on the grass court ... He kept pressure for completing win in two sets.

Divij-Purav also started with a win over Ferrer-Altuna pairing.

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At $15K Sri Lanka F1 Futures 2017, Colombo

[R1] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1093) 61 63
[R2] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,1067) 60 61
[QF] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt (5) Davide GALOPPINI (ITA,617) 63 62
[SF] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt (3) Fabrizio ORNAGO (ITA,581) 62 46 61

Men's Singles Final
(1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt (6) Alexander ZHURBIN (RUS,633) 63 62

Expected title win for Sumit and this will helped him to push his ranking inside top-350.

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At $2M Walmart NW Arkansas Championship 2017, Rogers, Arkansas, USA (LPGA Tour)

T25 Aditi Ashok 70 64 71 -8 $17,519.00

This week, Aditi managed only PAR in the final round but still this performance gave her top-25 finish ... This was her best-ever finish on LPGA tour with bigger prize money.

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At $6.8M Travelers Championship 2017, Cromwell, Connecticut, USA (PGA Tour)

T17 Anirban Lahiri 73 63 71 67 -6 $83,111.11

In the final round, Anirban managed 3 under for finishing inside top-20 ... After the first round he was out of contention of making cut but he responded with terrific unblemished second round of 7 under ... But again struggled with consistency in the third round but finished on the better note and $83K in prize money.

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At $753K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England (Premier)

[R1] Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

I am surprised to see Sania is not playing with her regular partner in these tournaments.

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At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) bt Yannik Mertens (BEL,267) 64 64

This is impressive win by RamK against Belgian Yannik Mertens in straight sets ... Before this week, he didn't played on the grass and here he defeated good the grass court player Mertens after adjusting to this surface.

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At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

5th Position
India l Canada 2-3 (2-1)
Goal Scorers - Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 7'PC and 22' PC and Gordon Johnston (CAN) 3' and 44', Kegan Pereira (CAN) 40'

Another disappointing performance by Indians and spirited from Canadians ... India lose to Canada in their final match of the Hockey World League Semi-Final and thus finish at the sixth spot ... With this win, Canada finish at 5th spot and by virtue of this win they have also secured a place in the next year's Men's Hockey World Cup.

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At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

Courtesy BAI twitter

Men's Singles Final
Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) bt Chen Long (CHN,6) 22-20 21-16

Srikanth won back to back Superseries title after winning Australian open ... In the final, he defeated Former WR #1 and current Olympics champion Chan Long in straight games in 45 mins ... Srikanth will be one of the favorites for next month's World Championship at Nanjing, China.

In the first game, Chen and Sri were necks to neck from the start ... Sometimes Sri was taking a couple of points lead then Chen was taking it back ... Srikanth raised his game from 17-19 down to win the first game on the second game point ... In the second game, again both players were matching other game but from 9-all Srikanth opened 3 points lead, 12-9 and kept that advantage for his first win over Chen ... This title win gave $56,250 in prize money.

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At $820K Aegon Classic Birmingham 2017, England (Premier)

[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) l (4) Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Casey Dellacqua (AUS) w/o

This time Sania-Coco gave walkover to their Aussie opponents.

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At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

Courtesy Lee's FB page

Doubles Final
(1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 26 62 10-8

Lee-Adil produced excellent comeback for winning Ilkley challenger against local pair ... After losing the first set easily, Lee-Adil took control of the match for winning the second set easily ... In the match tie-break, British pair also tried hard but Lee-Adil used their experience for winning the title ... So this year, Lee won three challenger titles on three different surfaces ... Leon challenger, Mexico on hard court, Tallahassee Challenger, USA on clay court and Ilkley Challenger, UK on grass court.

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At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) vs (3) Ryan Harrison (USA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) vs (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

This week, Rohan is playing with Andre Sa and facing last week's partner Dodig with his Wimbledon partner Roger-Vasselin ... Jeevan is also playing with Reid.

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At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[Q1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) bt Andrey Yekolov (RUS,1835) 60 60

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) vs Yannik Mertens (BEL,267)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Wesley Koolhof (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ David Ferrer (ESP)

RamK started with giving double bagel to his opponent but next his match against Mertens is tough.

In the doubles, Lee-Adil r 4th seed and facing Dutch pair ... Divij-Purav r facing wildcard pair, in that, one of the player is Ferrer.

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At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

5-8th Position
India bt Pakistan 6-1 (4-0)
Goal Scorers - Ramandeep Singh (IND) 8' and 28', Talwinder Singh (IND) 25', Mandeep Singh (IND) 27' and 59', Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 36' PC and Ajaz Ahmad (PAK) 41'

Once again Indian team convincingly defeated Pakistan in this position deciding match ... Our players dominated the match from start, similar to pool match, but still, this win wasn't overcome our loss against Malaysian team in the quarters ... India will now take on Canada in the 5th-6th place match on Sunday.

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At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) bt (4) Yuqi Shi (CHN,4) 21-10 21-14

[F] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) vs Chen Long (CHN,6)

Srikanth scored impressive crushing win over Chinese top player, Yuqi Shi ... He didn't gave any chance to Yuqi in this one-sided win ... Next, he is facing another big Chinese challenge of former WR#1 Chen Long.

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At €1.9M Aegon Championship 2017, London, England

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) l Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 46 57

Rohan-Dodig failed to build on their win over WR #1 and lost in straight sets against French pair.

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At $820K Aegon Classic Birmingham 2017, England (Premier)

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) bt Lucie Safarova (CZE)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) w/o

[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) bt (4) Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Casey Dellacqua (AUS)

Without hitting the ball Sania-Coco r in the semis and they will face 4th seed Aussie pair.

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At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,268) l Edan Leshem (ISR,331) 76(3) 67(5) 36

Doubles Final
(2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Yuya Kibi (JPN)/ Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN) 63 63

Vishnu and Bala lifted their first challenger title togather after easily beating Japanese pair ... Individually, this was Bala's maidain title and Vishnu's 2nd challenger title.

Prajnesh missed opportunity of going deep in the challenger as he lost against lowly ranked Israeli ... Prajnesh won the first set in the tie-break but failed to close this match in the second ... Leshen won the second set in the tie-break and then won the third with a break of serve.

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At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

[QF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) bt Sai Praneeth B. (IND,16) 25-23 21-17
[QF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) l (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1) 21-10 20-22 16-21
[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,16) l (6) Yu Sun (CHN,6) 17-21 21-10 17-21

[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) vs (4) Yuqi Shi (CHN,4)

Srikanth continued with his terrific form, scoring a straight games win over Sai ... Before this Srikanth has 1-5 win-loss record against Sai but here he showed improved game for winning this match ... Next, he is facing Chinese top-5 player Yuqi Shi.

Missed opportunity for Sindhu against WR#1 Tai as she wasted one match point in the second game ... Sindhu started confidently and won the first game comfortably against Tai ... In the second game, both players were neck to neck throughout the game ... Sindhu had a match point at 20-19 which she faile to convert ... In the third game, Sindhu was leading 14-10 but after that she managed to win only 2 pts for losing the game.

Saina also lost in three games against Yu Sun ... After losing the first game Saina made strong comeback for winning the second comfortably ... In the third, Saina was up 12-9 and 15-13 but after that she lost 7 points in a row and Sun converted 3rd match point.

Hockey News

At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

Quarter Final
India l Malaysia 2-3 (2-2)
Goal Scorers - Ramandeep Singh (IND) 24' and 26' and Razie Rahim (MAS) 19' PC and 48' PC, Tengku Tajuddin (MAS) 20'

Poor defending by Aakash and Vikas in front of the goal while stopping penalty corners ... Too many missed chances by our forwards and Ramandeep missed the open goal in the last minute ... Indians had themselves to blame for this loss but a good result for Malaysian team ... These days we r regularly struggling against Malaysian side, maybe we r failing to adjust their defensive playing style with superb goalkeeping by Kumar ... By virtue of this win, Malaysia have qualified for next year's World Cup to be held in India, first time after 2002 WC.

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At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt (PR) John Millman (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 64 76(2)

[F] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Lee-Adil in the final with straight sets win over Aussie pair ... Lee-Adit took crucial break in the first set in 9th game for winning it ... In the second set, both pairs exchanged a break but Lee-Adil dominated the tie-break for completing the win ... In the final, they r facing local wildcard pair.

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At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,268) bt Yaraslav Shyla (BLR,374) 64 3-1 retd.
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,447) l Edan Leshem (ISR,331) 16 64 64

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,268) vs Edan Leshem (ISR,331)

Doubles
[SF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (3) Vladyslav Manafov (UKR)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) w/o

[F] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Yuya Kibi (JPN)/ Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN)

Mixed results for Indians at Fergana ... Prajnesh moved into the quarters comfortably but Vishnu lost his match after winning the first set ... Next, Prajnesh is facing Israeli Edan Leshem.

Vishnu-Bala received walkover in the semis due to left knee injury to Shyla ... In the final, they r facing unseeded Japanese pair.

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At $50K+H Blois Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) l Sander Arends (NED)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 67(4) 36

RamK-Alexey pairing lost in the straight sets against Arends-Peng.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R2] Natasha Palha (IND,777) l (5) Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,349) 16 06
[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) l (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,225) 36 36

Expected loss of Dhruthi against top-225 player ... Natasha failed to challenge Strakhova.

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At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) bt (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1) 15-21 21-13 21-13
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,16) bt Yuxiang Huang (CHN,25) 21-15 18-21 21-13
[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) bt Xiaoxin Chen (CHN,22) 21-13 21-18
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,16) bt Soniia Cheah (MAS,26) 21-15 20-22 21-14

[R2] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l (7) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN) 21-18 18-21 13-21
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l (8) Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Chi-Lin Wang (TPE) 16-12 18-21

[QF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,11) vs Sai Praneeth B. (IND,16)
[QF] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,4) vs (1) Tzu Ying Tai (TPE,1)
[QF] Saina Nehwal (IND,16) vs (6) Yu Sun (CHN,6)

After new ranking update, expected jump for Srikanth to #11 ... Again impressive performance by Srikanth, he defeated WR#1 Son second time in two weeks ... After losing the first game he made strong comeback and won next two games convincingly ... Next, he is facinf Sai, who also scored three games win over hsi Chinese opponent, Yuxiang Huang.

Sindhu entered into the quarters after straight games win over chinese girl Chen ... But next, she is having tough match against in form WR#1 Tai.

Saina also scored three games win over Malaysian for reaching the quarters ... After winning the first set she lost her concentration to lose the second but recovered in the third for winning it comfortably ... Next, she is facing Chinese girl Yu Sun.

In the doubles, our both pairs lost against seeded pairs.

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At €1.9M Aegon Championship 2017, London, England

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt (1) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ John Peers (AUS) 76(2) 46 10-2

Really good upset win by Rohan and Dodig against WR #1 pair ... After winning the first set in the tie-break they lost the second but Rohan-Ivan recovered for winning the match tie-break comfortably.

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At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,226) l Taylor Fritz (USA,132) 61 67(3) 36

Doubles
[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 76(1) 62
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 26 46

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs John Millman (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS)

Yuki missed opportunity of upsetting Taylor Fritz as he lost in three sets ... Yuki won the first set with a triple break ... In the second set, he was 2 points away at 5-2 and 15-30 on Fritz's serve and in next game on his serve again he was 2 points away from completing the win at 503 and 30-0 but lost 4 points in a row to get broken ... Fritz won the tie-break easily and then with a single break won the final set completing excellent comeback.

Lee-Adil scored straight sets victory over Vasilevski and Podlipnik-Castillo ... But really disappointed by Divij-Purav's one-sided loss against Ratiwatanas ... In the semis, Lee-Adil r facing Aussie pair.

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At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR) 76(4) 57 10-8

Vishnu-Bala needed to dig deep for their win in the match tie-break against Prajnesh-Betov.

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At $50K+H Blois Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) bt (WC) Luke Purser (GBR)/ Thomas Rodrigues (FRA) 60 62

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) vs Sander Arends (NED)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Dominating winning start for RamK and his partner Vatutin .... Next, they r facing Dutch-Taipei pair.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Prerna Bhambri (IND,985) l Yana Sizikova (RUS,516) 16 06
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,777) bt Arina Folts (UZB,724) 67(4) 62 64
[R1] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) bt Valeriya Zeleva (RUS,842) 64 57 62

[R2] Natasha Palha (IND,777) vs (5) Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,349)
[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) vs (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,225)

Hard fought wins for Natasha and Dhruthi but both having tough second round matches.

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At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

[R1] (Q) Parupalli Kashyap (IND,69) l (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1) 15-21 21-14 15-21
[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) bt Chao Yu Kan (TPE,636) 21-13 21-16
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,14) bt Tommy Sugiarto (INA,26) 10-21 21-12 21-10
[R1] (Q) Siril Verma (IND,93) l Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (DEN,29) 16-21 8-21
[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) l Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,30) 19-21 13-21
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,13) l (7) Ka Long Angus Ng (HKG,6) 21-14 10-21 9-21
[R1] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Sayaka Sato (JPN,17) 21-17 14-21 21-18
[R1] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) bt (4) Ji Hyun Sung (KOR,5) 21-10 21-16
[R1] (Q) Ruthvika Shivani Gadde (IND,73) l Chen Xiaoxin (CHN,33) 17-21 21-12 12-21

[R1] Francis Alwin (IND)/ Kona Tarun (IND) l Hendra Setiawan (INA)/ Boon Heong Tan (MAS) 17-21 15-21
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Law Cheuk Him (HKG)/ Lee Chun Hei Reginald (HKG) 20-22 21-19 21-11
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) l (3) Takeshi Kamura (JPN)/ Keigo Sonoda (JPN) 20-22 6-21
[R1] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen (AUS)/ Jennifer Tam (AUS) 21-11 21-13
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Lee Chun Hei Reginald (HKG)/ Chau Hoi Wah (HKG) 13-21 17-21

[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,14) vs Yuxiang Huang (CHN,21)
[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Xiaoxin Chen (CHN,33)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) vs Soniia Cheah (MAS,28)

[R2] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (7) Shiho Tanaka (JPN)/ Koharu Yonemoto (JPN)
[R2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs (8) Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Chi-Lin Wang (TPE)

Good comeback win by Sai against experienced Sugiarto ... Expected straight games win for Srikanth.

Kashyap gave fighting performance against Korean WR#1 Wan Ho Son in three games loss ... Ajay failed to challenge Ka Long Angus Ng after winning the first game ... Siril also failed to challenge top-30 Danish opponent ... Disappointing loss of Prannoy against British veteran Rajiv Ouseph, was hoping another good run after his heroic Indonesian Superseries title win ... Next, Srikath is facing Son and Sai is facing Huang.

Saina scored dominating upset win over top-5 Korean player, Ji Hyun Sung ... Now, hoping for string of wins after this good start ... Sindhu scored three games win against tricky Japanese opponent, Sayaka Sato ... Ruthvika gave fighting performance against her higher ranked Chinese opponent ... In the second round, Saina is facing Malaysian girl Cheah and Sindhi is facing Chen.

Expected winning start for Ashwini and Sikki against local pair ... Next, they r facing 7th seed Japanese pair ... In MXD, I was hoping better performance from Satwik-Ashwini against Hong Kong pair ... Manu-Sumeeth's challenge frizzled out after the first game against seeded Japanese pair ... Satwik started with superb comeback win against higher ranked Hong Kong pair with his partner Chirag ... Next, they r facing 8th seed Taipei player.

Hockey News

At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

Pool B
India l Netherlands 1-3 (1-3)
Goal Scorers - Akashdeep Singh (IND) 27' and Thierry Brinkman (NED) 2', Sander Baart (NED) 12' PC and Mirco Pruijser (NED) 24'

Indians gave fighting performance before losing 1-3 against higher-ranked Netherlands to face their first defeat in the Hockey World League League Semi-Final ... In the beginning, Dutch side were well co-ordinated and took advantage of silggish start from Indians ... They scored on 2nd minute and up 3-0 in 24th minute ... Indians regrouped after half-time and tried hard but failed to score ... In the quarters, we r facing Malaysia.

Badminton News

At $750K Australian Open 2017, Sydney (Superseries)

[Q1] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,69) bt Zhao Junpeng (CHN,40) 21-15 21-18
[Q1] Shreyansh Jaiswal (IND,112) bt Pit Seng Low (AUS,187) 21-14 21-11
[Q1] Siril Verma (IND,93) bt Yehezkiel Fritz Mainaky (INA,328) 21-9 21-9
[Q1] Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND,73) bt Sylvina Kurniawan (AUS,645) 21-15 21-15

[Q2] Parupalli Kashyap (IND,69) bt Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47) 21-5 21-16
[Q2] Siril Verma (IND,93) bt Shreyansh Jaiswal (IND,112) 21-16 21-14
[Q2] Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND,73) bt Ruwindi Serasinghe (AUS,283) 21-9 21-7

[R1] (Q) Parupalli Kashyap (IND,69) vs (1) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1)
[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs Chao Yu Kan (TPE,636)
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,14) vs Tommy Sugiarto (INA,26)
[R1] (Q) Siril Verma (IND,93) vs Hans-Kristian Solberg Vittinghus (DEN,29)
[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) vs Rajiv Ouseph (ENG,30)
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,13) vs (7) Ng Ka Long Angus (HKG,6)
[R2] (5) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Sayaka Sato (JPN,17)
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) vs (4) Sung Ji Hyun (KOR,5)
[R1] (Q) Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (IND,73) vs Chen Xiaoxin (CHN,33)

[R1] Francis Alwin (IND)/ Kona Tarun (IND) vs Hendra Setiawan (INA)/ Boon Heong Tan (MAS)
[R1] atwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs Law Cheuk Him (HKG)/ Lee Chun Hei Reginald (HKG)
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND) vs (3) Takeshi Kamura (JPN)/ Keigo Sonoda (JPN)
[R1] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen (AUS)/ Jennifer Tam (AUS)
[R1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Lee Chun Hei Reginald (HKG)/ Chau Hoi Wah (HKG)

Big Indian continet in Australian Superseries .. Kashyap qualified for main-draw with back to back top-50 wins, including win against Indonesian Superseries finalist Kazumasa Sakai.

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At €1.9M Aegon Championship 2017, London, England

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt (WC) Kyle Edmund (ENG)/ Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) 63 67(5) 10-7

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs (1) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ John Peers (AUS)

Rohan-Dodig scored the first round win ina match tie-break against good grass court players ... Next, they r facing WR #1 Henri Kontinen and John Peers.

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At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Matt Reid (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 46 63 12-10
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM)/ Darian King (BAR) 62 64

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR)
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Good comeback win by Lee-Adil against tricky Aussie pair ... Next, they r facing Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski.

Other hand comfortable winning start for Divij-Purav ... In the quarters, they r facing Thai veteran Ratiwatanas.

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At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,271) bt (Q) Sergey Betov (BLR,812) 62 64
[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,453) bt (2) Duckhee Lee (KOR,133) 67(4) 62 76|(4)

[R2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,268) vs Yaraslav Shyla (BLR,374)
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,447) vs Edan Leshem (ISR,331)

Doubles
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Sergey Fomin (UZB)/ Azizkhon Turgunov (UZB) 63 62

[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR)

Vishnu started with an upset win over Duckhee ... Superb comeback win after losing the first set in the tie-break ... Here he produced huge services, hitting 22 aces and 13 of these were in the final set ... In the second round, he is facing Israeli Edan Leshem..

Prajnesh started with a comfortable win against his doubles partner Betov ... Next, he is facing Yaraslav Shyla.

Expected winning start for Vishnu and Bala in the doubles ... In the quarters, they r facing Prajnesh and Betov.

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At $50K+H Blois Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) l Mathias Bourgue (FRA,171) 46 26

RamK failed to challenge Frenchman Mathias Bourgue in his straight sets loss.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) l Elena Rybakina (RUS,533) 61 67(4) 46

Surprising loss of Karman, she lost after winning the first set.

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At $820K Aegon Classic Birmingham 2017, England (Premier)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) bt Darija Jurak (CRO)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 62 64

Comfortable winning start for Sania with Coco against Jurak and Rodionova.

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At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,226) bt Peter Polansky (CAN,127) 67(4) 76(7) 63

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,226) vs Taylor Fritz (USA,132)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Matt Reid (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM)/ Darian King (BAR)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Sergio Galdos (PER) vs Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 67(6) 67(5)

Yuki scored a good comeback win over Peter Polansky and took revenge of his loss against same player in French open qualifying ... In the first set, Yuki had total 7 break points but he failed to convert ... In that, he had 2 set points on Polansky serve at 5-6 and 15-40 ... After that Polansky comfortably won the tie-break ... In the second set, Yuki broke Polansky and was serving for the set at 5-4 but failed to hold ... Both were winning points on their serve in the tie-break ... Yuki saved a match point at 6-7 and converted 2nd set point for taking the match in the decider ... In the third set, Yuki took a crucial break in 8th game to lead 5-3 and then comfortably hold for completing deserving win ... Next, he is having tough match against big server American, Taylor Fritz.

This week, Lee is partnering Adil Shamasdin and they r facing tricky Aussie pair in the first round ... Divij-Purav r facing Burgos-King ... But, Jeevan lost in the first round partnering Paraguayan Galdos, they lost both sets in the tie-breaks against their opponents.

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At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,287) l (6) Brayden Schnur (CAN,245) 57 36

Doubles
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR) bt (WC) Saida'Lo Saidkarimov (UZB)/ Batyr Sapaev (UZB) 61 62

Bala lost in straight sets against Schnur.

Prajnesh and Betov started dominatingly against local wildcard pair.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Prerna Bhambri (IND,985) vs Yana Sizikova (RUS,516)
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,777) vs Arina Folts (UZB,724)
[R1] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) vs Valeriya Zeleva (RUS,842)
[R1] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) vs Elena Rybakina (RUS,533)

Good to see Prerna qualified for main-draw ... Winnable matches for Indians.

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At $2M Meijer LPGA Classic 2017, Michigan, USA

T32 Aditi Ashok (IND) 68 68 66 70 -12 $13612

Aditi produced her best ever finished on LPGA tour but she missed top-25 finish as managed only 1 under in the final round ... Still, big improvement for her.

Hockey News

At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

Pool B
India bt Pakistan 7-1 (3-0)
Goal Scorers - Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 13' PC and 33' PC, Talwinder Singh (IND) 21' and 23', Akashdeep Singh (IND) 47' and 58', Pradeep Mor (IND) 49' and Muhammad Umar Bhutta (PAK) 57'

Indians gave dominating performance in their win against Pakistan ... The 1st goal was lucky as Harmanpreet's mis-hit rolled into the goal but our players were looking more dangerous inside the goal ... In the second quarter, Talwinder scored 2 opportunist goals and in the beginning of the third quarter Harmanpreet scored another one from penalty corner ... Akashdeep scored with powerful hit in the beginning of fourth quarter to give 5-0 lead and within 2 mins Pradeep made it 6-0 ... Pakistan managed to score a deserving goal (their first in the tournament) late in the match but Akashdeep scored with a powerful hit top of the net.

Badminton News

At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

Men's Singles Final
Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) bt Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47) 21-12 21-19

Srikanth clinched his third Super Series title, winning the Indonesia Open men's singles trophy with a straight-game victory over Japanese qualifier Kazumasa Sakai in the final ... He completed the win in just 37 minutes to take home a big cheque of $75,000.

In this match, Srikanth played a patient game, he was good near the net and kept his nerve when he falls behind ... In the first game, Srikanth took a small lead at 6-4 and then 11-8 but after the interval, he dominated the proceeding for winning it comfortably ... In the second game, Sakai started aggressively as he was controlling the rallies and showed better net game ... He took 3-7 and 6-11 lead, but after the interval, Srikanth showed his aggressive game and caught him at 13-all ... After that, both players were neck to neck but from 19-all Srikanth completed the win with two superb smashes.

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At €1.9M Aegon Championship 2017, London, England

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs (WC) Kyle Edmund (ENG)/ Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)

Rohan has participated with Dodig and they r facing British-Aussie wild-card pair.

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At $820K Aegon Classic Birmingham 2017, England (Premier)

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,273) bt Katy Dunne (GBR,294) 76(6) 64

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,273) l (6) Tereza Smitkova (CZE,160) 75 26 26

Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) vs Darija Jurak (CRO)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)

Ankita played in the qualifying for this Aegon Classic ... She started with a good win against similar ranked British player but lost in the second qualifying round against Smitkova after winning the first set.

This week, Sania playing with CoCo Vandeweghe and they r facing Darija Jurak and Anastasia Rodionova.

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At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,231) vs Peter Polansky (CAN,127)

Tough first round for Yuki against Canadian Peter Polansky.

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At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,295) vs (6) Brayden Schnur (CAN,245)
[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,271) vs (Q) Sergey Betov (BLR,812)
[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,453) vs (2) Duckhee Lee (KOR,133)

Doubles
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR) vs (WC) Saida'Lo Saidkarimov (UZB)/ Batyr Sapaev (UZB)
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Sergey Fomin (UZB)/ Azizkhon Turgunov (UZB)

Prajnesh is facing his doubles partner Betov in the first round ... Bala is facing seeded Canadian Brayden Schnur ... Vishnu is facing Duckhee ... In the doubles, Vishnu and Bala r 2nd seed.

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At $50K+H Blois Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) vs Mathias Bourgue (FRA,171)

Doubles
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) vs (WC) Luke Purser (GBR)/ Thomas Rodrigues (FRA)

RamK having tough match against Frenchman Mathias Bourgue.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Curtea de Arges, Romania (Red clay)

Singles Final
(4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) l (8) Georgia Andreea CRACIUN (ROU,571) 16 16

17 yrs old Craciun proved too strong for Riya in the final, but still good performance by Riya as she reached the final of ITF tournament outside India..

Hockey News

At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

Pool B
India bt Canada 3-0 (3-0)
Goal Scorers - Ramandeep Singh (IND) 5', Akashdeep Singh (IND) 10', Sardar Singh (IND) 18'

Against Canada Indians displayed superb skill of attacking game ... Ramdeep continued with hsi excellent performance ... He opened Indian account in 5th goal and then, he set-up next two goals for Akashdeep and Sardar ... But after that, our players failed to capitalize on their good start with scoring more ... We missed 6 penalty corners and many opportunities inside the circle ... Luckily our defending was better in this match .. Tomorrow, we r playing against Pakistan.

Badminton News

At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[SF] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) l Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47) 21-17 26-28 18-21
[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) bt (2) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1) 21-15 14-21 24-22

[F] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47)

Srikanth scored a huge upset win over current Korean WR #1 Wan Ho Son after saving 1 match point in 72 mins ... Srikanth started confidently and took early control for winning the first game comfortably ... In the second game also Srikanth was in control till 13-9 but after than Son raised his game and took advantage of some errors from Srikanth ... Son won it losing only 1 more point ... In the final game, both players were matching others game and were neck to neck ... Son had a match point at 19-20, but Srikanth saved that and then he had a couple of match points which Son saved ... Srikanth converted a third match point and book the final against Japanese Kazumasa Sakai.

Heartbreaking loss for Prannoy against Sakai in 76 mins ... After winning the first game Prannoy was falling behind in the second, from 15-18 he took 19-18 lead ... Prannoy had total 5 match points which he failed to convert before losing this game ... In the final game, Sakai took lead and he was leading 9-15 which Prannoy reduced to 17-18 but Sakai kept his nerve for converting 2nd match point.

Squash News

At $15K NZ Southern Open 2017, Invercargill, New Zealand

[R1] (6) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,79) bt (Q) Chris van der Salm (NZL,UNR) 11-7, 11-2, 11-6 (38m)

[QF] (6) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,79) l (1) Ivan Yuen (MAS,42) 12-14, 6-11, 11-6, 11-9, 9-11 (87m)

Mahesh lost a close match against top-50 Malaysian Ivan Yuen ... After losing the 1st two games Mahesh tried fightback winning next two ... But Ivan raised his game in crucial point for winning this match.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary (Red clay)

Doubles
(1) Kotomi Takahata (JPN)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bt Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR)/ Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) 1-0 retd.

Prarthana lifted her first title of the year and this was her biggest one also ... In the final, their opponentes retired after the first game ... Prarthana will crack in top-150 and she is steadily moving towards top-100 rank in the doubles.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Curtea de Arges, Romania (Red clay)

[R1] (4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) bt Teodora STINGA (ROU,902) 76(7) 63
[R2] (4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) bt (Q) Evelyne Christelle Atticia TIRON (ROU,UNR) 63 61
[QF] (4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) bt Andreea Amalia ROSCA (ROU,673) 64 06 64

[SF] (4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) bt Katharina HERING (GER,704) 62 63

[F] (4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) vs (8) Georgia Andreea CRACIUN (ROU,571)

Riya is playing in Euopean ITF tournaments ... Last week she reached quarter-final of Bosnia-Herzegovina ITF tournament and lost in the doubles final ... This week she is playing in Romanian ITF tournament and has reached the final with good wins again local players ... In the final, she is facing talented 17 yrs old local girl, Craciun.

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At $15K Thailand F2 Futures 2017, Hua Hin

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Kazakhstan Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ) bt (2) Wishaya TRONGCHAROENCHAIKUL (THA)/ Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) w/o
[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Kazakhstan Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ) bt Michael KWONG (HKG)/ Ryota TANUMA (JPN) 62 61
[SF] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Kazakhstan Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ) bt (4) Harry BOURCHIER (AUS)/ Dayne KELLY (AUS) 76(4) 57 10-7

Doubles Final
Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Kazakhstan Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ) bt (3) Yannick JANKOVITS (FRA)/ Evan SONG (USA) 61 61

KU lifted the doubles title with his Kazakh partner Yevseyev comfortably ... They dominated 3rd seed pair in the final, before that they won really close match against 4th seed Aussie pair in the semis ... After looking at his recent results, I feel KU should concentrate more on his doubles to make career out of it.

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At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[QF] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) bt (8) Long Chen (CHN,8) 21-18 16-21 21-19
[QF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,14) bt Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,19) 21-15 21-14

[SF] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) vs Kazumasa Sakai (JPN,47)
[SF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs (2) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1)

Terrific result from Prannoy with another upset win over former WR #1 Long Chen in 75 mins ... After longtime I am seeing back to back quality wins by Indian shuttler ... Prannoy dominated the first game and was in control ... He was 20-13 up but Long Chen saved 5 game points before losing the game ... Long Chen kept that momentum and took control of the second game which he won comfortably ... In the final game, both players were neck to neck for the most part of the game ... Prannoy converted 2nd match point for memorable win.

Srikanth also joined him in the semis with comfortable straight games win over Taipei's Tzu Wei Wang ... Next he is facing Korean WR#1 Wan Ho Son.

Hockey News

At The Men's Hockey World League Semi-Finals 2017, London, England

Pool B
India bt Scotland 4-1 (0-1)
Goal Scorers - Ramandeep Singh (IND) 31' and 34', Akashdeep Singh (IND) 40', Harmanpreet Singh (IND) 42' PC and Chris Grassick (SCO) 7'

India conceded a surprise early goal from Scottish captain but they recovered and scored four goals in the third quarter to run away with full points in the Pool B match ... India play their next Pool B match on June 17 against Canada.

Rupinder Pal Singh, and SK Uthappa have been ruled out of the Hero Hockey World League Semi-Final ... Uthappa had to return home to attend to a family emergency ... So in place of Uthappa, Sumit will come in ... Rupinder will be unavailable for the tournament due to a hamstring injury, Rupinder will be replaced by defender Jasjit Singh Kular.

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At $150K+H Caltanissetta Challenger 2017, Italy (Red clay)

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) l Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ,126) 06 26

Kukushkin proved too strong for RamK in this one-sided defeat.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary (Red clay)

[R1] (1) Kotomi Takahata (JPN)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bye
[QF] (1) Kotomi Takahata (JPN)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bt Virag Csuirgo (HUN)/ Adrienn Nagy (HUN) 67(7) 76(7) 10-7
[SF] (1) Kotomi Takahata (JPN)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bt Olga Danilovic (SRB)/ Panna Udvardy (HUN) 64 63

[F] (1) Kotomi Takahata (JPN)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) vs Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR)/ Tereza Mrdeza (CRO)

Prarthana is in another big ITF tournament final with her Japanese partner Takahata ... In the quarters, they needed to dig deep against local pair for comeback victory.

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At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[R2] H.S. Prannoy (IND,25) bt (1) Lee Chong Wei (MAS,3) 21-10 21-18
[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,14) bt (4) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,9) 21-15 20-22 21-16

[R2] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) l Beiwen Zhang (USA,10) 21-15 12-21 18-21
[R2] Saina Nehwal (IND,15) l Nitchaon Jindapol (THA,14) 15-21 21-6 16-21

[QF] H.S. Prannoy (IND,29) vs (8) Long Chen (CHN,8)
[QF] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,22) vs Tzu Wei Wang (TPE,19)

Mixed day for us ... As after two great upset wins by our men, we had two disappointing losses to our women players.

Impressive straight games win by Prannoy over former WR #1 Lee Chong Wei ... He dominated this match and scored big upset win in this Premier event ... Another tough match against former WR #1 Long Chen.

Srikanth also joined him in the quarters with another impressive win against top Danish player Jan O Jorgensen in three games ... After winning the first game he lost the second game to Jan but he recovered to win the final game comfortably ... Next he is facing Taipei's Tzu Wei Wang.

Other hand disappointing loss of Saina against Jindapol, whom she dominated in her previous matches and had a 7-0 win-loss record ... Saina is still struggling to find consistency in her performance as she has been struggled to build on her win in previous matches.

And Sindhu also lost against Beiwen Zhang, whom she defeated in their previous meetings ... After winning the first game Sindhu failed to keep momentum.

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At €660K s-Hertogenbosch Open 2017, Netherland

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Andre Sa (BRA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 36 46

[QF] Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (2) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 46 46

Disappointing day for Indians as our both pairs lost in the straight sets in their respective matches.

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At $150K+H Caltanissetta Challenger 2017, Italy (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) bt (Q) Sebastian Ofner (AUT,222) 62 46 76(6)

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ,126)

Impressive win by RamK over his higher ranked Austrian opponent in close last tight tie-break ... Next, he is facing challenger veteran Kazak's Mikhail Kukushkin.

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At $150K Nottingham Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,231) l (4) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,103) 67(8) 06

Doubles
[QF] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) l (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 36 63 6-10

Yuki folded in the second after losing the tight tie-break in the first set ... Bagel in the second set was unexpected and unacceptable ... In the doubles also Yuki lost with Dudi in the match tie-break completing a terrible day.

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At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Manchester, England (Grass)

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,273) l (6) Naomi BROADY (GBR,115) 36 46

Ankita got last direct entry in this big ITF event but local top-120 player, Naomi Broady, proved better player on the court.

Badminton News

At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,29) bt Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,20) 21-13 21-18
[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,14) bt Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,11) 21-15 17-21 21-16
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,15) l (2) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1) 14-21 18-21

[R1] (Q) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) l Fajar Alfian (INA)/ Muhammad Rian Ardianto (INA) 9-21 19-21
[R1] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Dian Fitriani (INA)/ Nadya Melati (INA) 21-19 19-21 13-21

[R2] H.S. Prannoy (IND,29) vs (1) Lee Chong Wei (MAS,3)
[R2] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,14) vs (4) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,9)

Srikanth and Prannoy scored impressive win in contrasting style ... Both having tough second round matches against Lee Chong Wei and Jan O Jorgensen respectively.

Sai failed to challenge new Korean WR#1 Wan Ho Son ... In the doubles, young SatwikSairaj and Chirag lost in straight games against Indonesian pair ... Ashwini and Sikki were in a chance of upset after winning the first game ... They were leading most part of the second game before fightback by their higher ranked Indonesian pair ... They won the second game and then didn't gave chance to Indian pair in the last.

Football News

At the 2019 AFC Asian Cup - Third Round Qualification, Bangalore, India

Group A
India bt Kyrgyzstan 1-0 (0-0)
Goal Scored - Sunil Chhetri (IND) 69'

The Indians overcame a stiff challenge from the Kyrgyz Republic by a single goal in Bengaluru and gain upper hand in qualifying for the Asian cup ... Sunil Chhetri's second-half goal was enough as the Indians maintained top spot in the group, opening up a three-point lead.

Tennis News

At $150K Nottingham Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) bt (1) Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 76(6) 67(7) 10-3

[QF] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) vs (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

What an upset win by Yuki with Dudi Sela against top-seed in a very close match ... They won the tight first tie-break but lost the second ... In the match tie-break, they dominated experienced top-seed pair from start for winning it comfortably ... Next, Yuki and Dudi r facing British pair.

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At $50K+H Lisbon Challenger 2017, Portugal

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,271) l Joao Domingues (POR,180) 57 46

Prajnesh gave the decent fight against top-200 Joao Domingues in his loss.

Badminton News

At $1M BCA Indonesia Open 2017, Jakarta (Superseries Premier)

[Q1] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Altof Barriq (INA)/ Reinard Dhanriano (INA) 22-20 21-9
[Q2] Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) bt Sabar Karyaman Gutama (INA)/ Frengky Wijaya Putra (INA) 21-18 21-16

[R1] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) bt Pornpawee Chochuwong (THA,20) 21-12 21-19
[R1] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) bt (8) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,8) 17-21 21-18 21-12

[R1] B. Sumeeth Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Irfan Fadhilah (INA)/ Weni Anggraini (INA) 12-21 9-21

[R1] H.S. Prannoy (IND,29) vs Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (INA,20)
[R1] Kidambi Srikanth (IND,14) vs Wing Ki Vincent Wong (HKG,11)
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,15) vs (2) Wan Ho Son (KOR,1)

[R1] (Q) Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (IND)/ Chirag Shetty (IND) vs Fajar Alfian (INA)/ Muhammad Rian Ardianto (INA)
[R1] N. Sikki Reddy (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Dian Fitriani (INA)/ Nadya Melati (INA)

[R2] (4) Pusarla V. Sindhu (IND,3) vs Beiwen Zhang (USA,10)
[R2] (2) Saina Nehwal (IND,11) vs Nitchaon Jindapol (THA,15)

Saina is getting back to where she was before her operation ... Her steady progress has been shown in today's result ... She scored a huge comeback win over talented Thai girl Ratchanok Intanon after losing the first game ... Next, she is facing another Thai girl Nitchaon Jindapol.

Sindhu started with a comfortable win over top-20 Thai girl ... Next, she is facing American-Chinese girl Beiwen Zhang.

In-form Sai having a tough match against WR #1 Korean Wan Ho Son ... Prannoy and Srikanth also facing higher ranked opponents.

Ashwini and Sumeeth lost in MXD, I think our think-tank should start building on Ashwini and young Satwiksairaj success in Sudirman cup ... In my view, we have found a rare doubles talent in Satwiksairaj and need to develop ... He with Chirag qualified for the main draw and next they r facing local pair.

Squash News

At $10K New Zealand International Classic 2017, Palmerston North

[R1] (4) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,79) bt Joe Green (ENG,106) 11-5, 11-6, 11-6
[QF] (4) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,79) bt Mohd Syafiq Kamal (MAS,99) 11-4, 9-11, 11-4, 11-4
[SF] (4) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,79) bt Eain Yow Ng (MAS,88) 7-11, 11-4, 11-4, 11-5 (48m)

[F] (4) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,79) l (3) Greg Lobban (SCO,67) 8-11, 13-15, 6-11 (44m)

Mahesh lost in the final of New Zealand International against his Scottish opponent.

Shooting News

At ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol series 2017, Gabala, Azerbaijan

Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol
Gold - India (Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu)
Silver - Russia

Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu claimed another gold in the mixed team 10m air pistol event at ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol series ... Jitu and Heena made excellent comeback from 0-4 to 7-6 to beat Russia ... Before this they had won gold at the ISSF World Cup held in New Delhi earlier this year ... Also the mixed team air pistol event is one of the new events added for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Athletics News

At Altis Invitational Meet 2017, Arizona

Mumbai’s sprint hurdler Siddhanth Thingalaya broke his own national record, 13.48s, the time which is also the entry standard for the London Worlds, at the Altis Invitational Meet in the US, on Saturday and qualified for the World Athletics Championships to be held in London in August.

Tennis News

At €660K s-Hertogenbosch Open 2017, Netherland (Grass)

[R1] Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Steve Darcis (BEL)/ Gilles Muller (LUX) 75 64

Scott-Lee started with straight sets win over decent pairing on the grass.

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At $150K Nottingham Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,231) bt (WC) Jay Clarke (GBR,394) 76(2) 61

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,231) vs (4) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,103)

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Luke Saville (AUS) l (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 16 67(5)

Yuki started with straight sets win at Nottingham ... Yuki failed to overpower young Jay in the beginning ... He missed many break point opportunities in the first set ... Both players exchanged single break before taking it in the tie-break, Yuki dominated it for winning this set ... In the second set, Yuki started to found his range and he broke Jay couple of times for winning it comfortably ... Next, he is facing top-100 type Italian Thomas Fabbiano.

In the doubles, Jeevan failed to win with his Aussie partner Luke Saville against local wild-card pair.

Tennis News

At $150K Nottingham Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) vs (WC) Jay Clarke (GBR,404)

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) vs <(1) Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Luke Saville (AUS) vs (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

The draw is out and Yuki is facing local wild-card player Jay Clarke in the first round ... In the doubles, our both players r in the top-draw with their respective partners.

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At $150K+H Caltanissetta Challenger 2017, Italy (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,269) vs Qualifier

RamK is facing a qualifier in the first round.

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At $15K Singapore F3 Futures 2017,

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,269) bt Nicholas S. HU (USA.895) 76(4) 62

Another expected title win for RamK in Singapore futures.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Aurangabad, India (clay)

[R1] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) bt Tejasvi KATE (IND) 61 64
[R1] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) bt (6) Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) 62 46 63
[R1] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) bt Yubarani BANERJEE (IND) 60 61
[R1] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) bt Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) 63 76(6)

Singles Final
Rutuja BHOSALE (IND) bt Mahak JAIN (IND) 64 64

Good start for Rutuja on professional tour after graduating from Texas A and M University ... This title win will help her to enter regularly on $15K ITF tournaments ... Also this is her first ITF singles title ... With her, this was a great week for young Mahak Jain.

Tennis News

At €660K s-Hertogenbosch Open 2017, Netherland (Grass)

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Andre Sa (BRA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)
[R1] Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Steve Darcis (BEL)/ Gilles Muller (LUX)

Lee, Divij and Purav r starting their grass season from s-Hertogenbosch open.

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At $150K Nottingham Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[Q1] (WC) Sathi Reddy Chirala (IND,1865) vs (WC) Finn Bass (GBR,UNR) 06 06
[Q1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,1196) vs (8) Alejandro Falla (COL,298) 63 36 06

Expected losses of Indian players.

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At $50K+H Lisbon Challenger 2017, Portugal

[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,420) l Dennis Novak (AUT,328) 26 26

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,277) vs Joao Domingues (POR,176)

Sasi failed to challenge Novak ... Prajnesh is having a tough match against top-200 Portuguese player.

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At $25K Uzbekistan F4 Futures 2017, Namangan

[R1] (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,457) bt Denis MATSUKEVITCH (RUS,846) 63 63
[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,310) bt (Q) Shohruh ABDUMALIKOV (UZB,UNR) 61 61

[R2] (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,457) bt Bogdan BOBROV (RUS,1142) 61 64
[R2] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,310) bt (Q) Daniiar DULDAEV (KZG,1634) 76(2) 76(9)

[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,310) bt (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,457) 67(6) 76(3) 76(4)

[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,310) l Mikhail FUFYGIN (RUS,859) 67(5) 46

Surprising loss of Bala in the semis against lower ranked Russian player ... In the quarter, Bala and Vishnu had an epic match.

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At $15K Singapore F3 Futures 2017,

[R1] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,269) bt Jorge BLANCO GUADALUPE (ESP,1535) 62 62
[R1] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,586) bt Sem VERBEEK (NED,1619) 62 76(4)

[R2] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,269) bt Justin BARKI (INA,1429) 61 61
[R2] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,586) bt Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,1116) 61 62

[QF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,269) bt Marc-Andrea HUESLER (SUI,971) 76(5) 62
[QF] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,586) bt Jacob GRILLS (AUS,1012) 64 64

[SF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,269) bt Nam Hoang LY (VIE,760) 67(4) 16
[SF] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,586) l Nicholas S. HU (USA.895)

[F] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,269) vs Nicholas S. HU (USA.895)

This week again RamK is in the final with comfortable wins ... VSP lost in the semis.

Tennis News

At $125K Bol Open 2017, Croatia

[QF] (4) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l Tereza Mrdeza (CRO)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO) w/o

In the quarters, Prarthana and Alexandra Cadantu gave a walkover to their opponents.

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At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Dustin Brown (GER) l (1) Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 26 67(3)

Jeevan-Dustin lost against top-seed pairing of Aisam and Marcus in straight sets.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) l (2) Polina Monova (RUS,181) 63 16 57

Karman gave fighting performance against top-200 Russian player in her loss ... After winning the first set, Karmanlost the second easily but she recovered and fought hard in the third.

Tennis News

At Roland Garros 2017, Paris, France

Courtesy of French Open site

Mixed Doubles Final
(7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL) 26 62 12-10

Juniors
[R2] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Fernanda Labrana (CHI) l Ayumi Miyamoto (JPN)/ Xiyu Wang (CHN) 57 26

Rohan and Gabriela Dabrowski have each lifted their maiden Grand Slam trophy having won the Roland-Garros mixed doubles title ... Rohan-Gabriela gained revenge for a US Open quarter-finals loss at the hands of their French Open final opponents ... In this match, they turned the table on their opponent after a set and a break down ... In the match tie-break, they were two championship points down, 7-9 ... They saved those and converted their 2nd match point when Anna-Lena committed a double fault.

Other hand with Zeel's loss in the doubles our interest got over in this French open.

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At $150K+H Prostejov Challenger 2017, Czech Republic (Red clay)

[SF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (3) Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Hans Podlipink-Castillo (CHI) 36 46

Lee-David lost in straight sets against Jebavy and Podlipink-Castillo.

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At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) bt Duckhee Lee (KOR,131) 63 61

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) l (5) Dustin Brown (GER,76) 67(6) 62 57

Yuki started with a very dominating win over top-150 ranked Korean Duckhee Lee .... In the second match, Yuki faced grass court specialist Dustin Brown ... Dustin struggled with his overall game but he was serving well ... In the first set, Yuki had a set point in the tie-break which he failed to convert ... In the second set, Yuki took early break and then again broke Dustin in 8th game for winning it comfortably ... In the final set, both players hold their respective service games till 10th game ... In 11th game, Yuki hit couple of wayward shots and gave 3 break points, 0-40 ... Yuki saved those but on 6th break point of the game Dustin broke him and then hold his serve for a win.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) bt (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,193) 76(5) 63

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) vs (2) Polina Monova (RUS,181)

Karman scored straights sets win over top-200 and local favorite Abduraimova ... This was her first win over top-200 player and that's also in some style ... Next, she is facing another top-200 Russian player.

Tennis News

At Roland Garros 2017, Paris, France

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (3) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 75 63

[F] (7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL)

Juniors
[R1] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Fernanda Labrana (CHI) bt (4) Marta Kostyuk (UKR)/ Katarina Zavatska (UKR) w/o

[R2] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Fernanda Labrana (CHI) vs Ayumi Miyamoto (JPN)/ Xiyu Wang (CHN)

Rohan and Gabriela r in the final with straight sets win over 3rd seed pair Andrea Hlavackova and Edouard Roger-Vasselin ... In the final, they r facing unseeded pairing of Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah ... Tomorrow hoping for first grand slam title for Rohan.

Zeel and her Chilean partner received walkover from their 4th seed Ukrainian opponents ... Next, they r facing Asian pair.

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At $125K Bol Open 2017, Croatia

[R1] (4) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt Olga Govortsova (BLR)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS) 61 36 10-8

[QF] (4) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs Tereza Mrdeza (CRO)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO)

Prarthana-Alexandra started with a win in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing Tereza Mrdeza and Tamara Zidansek.

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At $150K+H Prostejov Challenger 2017, Czech Republic (Red clay)

[QF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Radu Albot (MDA)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 76(3) 36 10-7

[SF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Hans Podlipink-Castillo (CHI)

Good fighting win by Lee-David against clay court specialist European pair in the match tie-break ... Next they r facing another clay court specialists, Roman Jebavy and Hans Podlipink-Castillo.

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At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Dustin Brown (GER) bt Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 76(5) 67(3) 11-9

Very close win for Jeevan and Dustin in the match tie-break ... After losing the second set in the tie-break, Jeevan-Dustin saved a match point at 8-9 before converting their first match point ... Good win against big serving experienced Skupski brothers.

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At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Surbiton (Grass)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) l Anna Blinkova (RUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 46 57

Ankita-Emily lost in straight sets against Russian pair.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) bt (6) Olga Doroshina (RUS,301) 16 76(3) 61
[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,634) l (4) Ksenia Lykina (RUS,245) 67(3) 36

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) vs (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,193)

Excellent comeback upset win by Krman against top-300 Russian player ... Next, she is facing tough challenge of local top-200 player ... Dhruthi also gave fighting performance against her top-250 Russian opponent.

Football News

At FIFA International Friendly 2017, Mumbai, India

India bt Nepal 2-0 (0-0)
Goal Scored - Sandesh Jhingan (IND) 60', Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 78'

The Indian team beat Nepal 2-0 in an international friendly match ... Stephen Constantine went in with a familiar 4-1-3-2 formation without injured Sunil Chhetri and Udanta Singh ... After a slow first half, our players lifted their game into the second ... Robin missed almost half-dozen chances in this match ... India won their 6th consecutive international game ... Next Tuesday, they r playing 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against the Kyrgyz Republic in Bengaluru.

Tennis News

At $150K+H Prostejov Challenger 2017, Czech Republic (Red clay)

[R1] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK) 76(4) 16 10-6

[QF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Radu Albot (MDA)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR)

After winning the first set, Lee-David were a break up in the second, 1-0 ... After that they lost next 6 games for giving favor to their opponents ... But they recovered in the match tie-break for good win ... Next, they r facing Albot and Molchanov.

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At $125K Bol Open 2017, Croatia

[R1] (Q) Prarthana Thombare (IND,939) l Tereza Mrdeza (CRO,254) 06 06

Forgettable scoreline for Prarthana in the singles against top-275 local player.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,634) bt (Q) Ksenia Palkina Ulukan (KGZ,670) 61 62

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) vs (6) Olga Doroshina (RUS,301)
[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,634) vs (4) Ksenia Lykina (RUS,245)

Dhruthi started with dominating win over former top-200 player, Palkina ... Next, both players having tough Russian opponents.

Tennis News

At Roland Garros 2017, Paris, France

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) 63 64

Rohan with Gabriela scored a comfortable upset win over Sania and Ivan for entering into the semis of MXD.

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At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) vs Duckhee Lee (KOR,131)

Doubles
[R1]Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Dustin Brown (GER) vs Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)

Yuki is facing Duckhee in the first round ... Jeevan having really good partner in grass couert specialist Dustin Brown and they r facing Skupski brothers.

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At $125K Bol Open 2017, Croatia

[Q1] (4) Prarthana Thombare (IND,939) bt Ema Mulalic (BIH,UNR) 60 63

[R1] (Q) Prarthana Thombare (IND,939) vs Tereza Mrdeza (CRO,254)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs Olga Govortsova (BLR)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS)

Prarthana is playing in the singles and seeded 4th in the doubles with her Romanian partner Alexandra Cadantu in Bol open ... Prarthana took advantage of weaker singles qualifying draw for qualifying ... Facing tough challenge of local top-250 player in the first round ... In the doubles, they r facing Eastern European pair.

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At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Surbiton (Grass)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs Anna Blinkova (RUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)

Ankita-Emily r facing Russian pair in the first round.

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At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,634) vs (Q) Ksenia PALKINA (KZG,670)
[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,474) bt (WC) Yasmina KARIMJANOVA (UZB,UNR) 76(1) 62

Karman started with straight sets victory against local wildcard player ... Dhruthi qualified and facing fellow qualifier in the first round.