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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

Men's Doubles
[R2] (13) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt (WC) Benjamin Bonzi (FRA)/ Gregoire Jacq (FRA) 61 62
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (2) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Shuko Aoyama (JPN)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)

An expected comfortable win for Rohan-Edouard against local wild-card pair inside 50 mins ... In the third round, they can face a tough match against top-seeds Melo and Kubot ... Yuki-Divij also having a tough match against 2nd seeds in the second round.

Divij is also getting an opportunity of playing MXD with his Japanese partner Aoyama and they r facing experienced doubles players, Srebotnik and Gonzalez

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2018, Hua Hin, Thailand

[QF] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,421) l Alexandra Bozovic (AUS,446) 36 67(2)

Pranjala failed to follow up her upset of seeded player ... Bozovic won the match in straight sets ... In the second set, Pranjala had a couple of set points at 6-5 and 15-40 on Bozovic's serve, which she failed to convert.

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At $15K Spain F13 Futures 2017, Sta. Margarida Montbui

[QF] (LL) Adil Kalyanpur (IND,1851) vs (Q) Enrique Luque Rico (ESP,1781)

In the quarters, Adil will face 17 yrs old Spanish qualifier Luque Rico.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) 63 57 64

Divij started with a win partnering Yuki in French Open doubles ... In the first set, Yuki-Divij broke Purav in the 6th game and kept that advantage for winning the set ... After that, both pairs matched others game ... Purav-Fabrice won the second set but Divij-Yuki recovered for completing win after winning the final set.

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At $25K Uzbekistan F3 Futures 2018, Andijan

[R2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,368) l Kristian Lozan (RUS,588) 16 57

Arjun struggled with consistency and lost in the second round against lower ranked Russian.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2018, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R2] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,421) bt (5) Jacqueline Cako (USA,277) 57 62 62
[R2] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,263) l (Q) Maddison Inglis (AUS,549) 67(7) 76(5) 67(4)

[QF] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,421) vs Alexandra Bozovic (AUS,446)

Pranjala scored one of the best win of her career against top-300 American Cako ... After losing the first set Pranjala made a strong comeback for winning next two ... Next, she is facing Australian Bozovic, who defeated top-seed in the second round.

Karman lost a marathon match against Australian qualifier ... Her match went for almost a four and half hours, all sets went to tie-breaks.

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At $15K Spain F13 Futures 2017, Sta. Margarida Montbui

[R1] (LL) Adil Kalyanpur (IND, 1847) bt Jaume Pla Malfieto (ESP, 680) 75 64

[R2] (LL) Adil Kalyanpur (IND,1851) bt Simon Carr (IRL,896) 63 2-2 (Ret'd)

After almost a year we are seeing a win by Adil ... He entered as a lucky loser and scored a back to back upset wins and enters the quarters.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,94) l (LL) Ruben Bemelmans (BEL,111) 46 46 16

Men's Doubles
[R1] (13) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Taylor Fritz (USA)/ Frances Tiafoe (USA) 63 61

Yuki failed to challenge Bemelmans and lost in straight sets ... Yuki didn't prepare properly for French Open as he didn't play a single match on clay ... So this was expected result but still worrying performance in the third set against Bemelmans, who is also not comfortable on the clay court ... Not happy with Yuki's performance and his lack of preparation for French Open as he wasted a whole month.

A dominating winning start for Rohan and Edouard against American youngsters.

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At $25K Uzbekistan F3 Futures 2018, Andijan

[R1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,368) bt (Q) Martin Borisiouk (BLR,1773) 76(4) 75

[R2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,368) vs Kristian Lozan (RUS,588)

A surprising tough match for Arjun against 17 yrs old qualifier ... Next, he is facing Russian teenager Lozan.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2018, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R1] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,421) bt Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1144) 61 16 64
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,443) l (Q) Maddison Inglis (AUS,549) 16 0-1 retd

[R2] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,421) vs (5) Jacqueline Cako (USA,277)
[R2] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,263) vs (Q) Maddison Inglis (AUS,549)

Pranjala scored three sets win over Sowjanya ... Next, she is facing top-300 American Cako ... Rutuja retired from the match after losing the first set ... Hoping for not a serious injury ... Karman is facing Inglis in the second round.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

Men's Doubles
[R1] (13) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Taylor Fritz (USA)/ Frances Tiafoe (USA)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (7) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Shuai Zhang (CHN)/ John Peers (AUS)

A crap draw for our players as Divij and Yuki r facing Purav and Fabrice in the first round ... Rohan and Edouard r facing young Americans.

In MXD, only Rohan has got chance and he is playing with Timea Babos ... They r facing Shuai Zhang and John Peers.

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At $75K Vicenza Challenger 2018, Italy

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,183) l Salvatore Caruso (ITA,228) 16 46

Prajnesh lost easily against Caruso, he defeated same player in the French qualifying first round ... Yesterday, Prajnesh got an opportunity of playing in French Open main-draw due to many withdrawals ... But he missed that opportunity as he was already in the main-draw of Vicenza and that missed opportunity definitely affected his performance.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2018, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R1] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,421) vs Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1144)
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,443) vs (Q) Maddison Inglis (AUS,549)
[R1] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,263) bt (WC) Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA,609) 63 60

Karman started with expected win ... Bavisetti qualified but facing Yadlapalli in the first round ... Rutuja is facing Australian qualifier.

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At $7.1M Fort Worth Invitational 2018, Texas, USA (PGA Tour)

T20 Shubhankar Sharma (IND) 73 68 66 67 -6 $64,196.00
T62 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 67 74 68 69 -2 $15,549.00

Shubhankar scored 3 under final round to finish inside top-20 ... He played attacking golf on the final day and scored 7 birdies, a couple of bogeys and a double bogey ... This was a superb recovery from Shubhankar, who scored three over the first day and was in danger of missing the cut ... But Anirban's one bad second round put him outside top-60 finish.

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At Le Coq Sportif Beijing Ladies Classic 2018, China (Chinese LPGA Tour)

T13 Sharmila Nicollet (IND) 68 70 76 -2 RMB 14480.00

Sharmila finished inside top-15 at Le Coq Sportif Beijing Ladies Classic ... This was an improvement as in her last tournament in EFG Hong Kong Ladies Open, she finished inside top-20 ... But her after the second round she was in T2 position, a shot behind leader ... But 4 over last round pushed her outside top-10 finish.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q3] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) l (13) Elias Ymer (SWE,122) 36 46

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,94) vs (LL) Ruben Bemelmans (BEL,111)

Prajnesh lost in straight sets against Ymer ... In this match, Prajnesh failed to play his regular game and allowed Ymer to control in this match ... Still really a good performance by Prajnesh in this French Open qualifying.

Yen-Hsun Lu withdraws, so Yuki is playing against lucky loser Ruben Bemelmans in the first round ... A bit tougher match for Yuki as Ruben played few tournaments on clay in preparation for French Open.

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At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[SF] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Nick Kyrgios (AUS)/ Jack Sock (USA) 57 46
[SF] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 57 16

Our both pairs lost in straight sets against their respective opponents.

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At $15K Men's Arnold Homes Tring Open 2018, Tring, Herts, England

[Q1] Abhay Singh (IND,107) bt Michael Harris (ENG,216) 11-7, 9-11, 11-7, 11-8 (45m)
[Q2] Abhay Singh (IND,107) bt Emyr Evans (WAL,129) 11-9, 5-11, 11-3, 7-11, 11-7 (64m)

[R1] (Q) Abhay Singh (IND,107) l (1) Adrian Waller (ENG,44) 7-11, 14-16, 6-11 (41m)
[R1] (7) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) bt Ahsan Ayaz (PAK,87) 11-2, 11-3, 11-5 (27m)

[QF] (7) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) l (1) Adrian Waller (ENG,44) 6-11, 9-11, 9-11 (46m)

Young Abhay Singh qualified for main-draw with fighting wins ... But top-50 player Adrian Waller won against him in the first round and he defeated another Indian Ramit in the quarters.

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At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[QF] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (3) Julio Peralta (CHI)/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 75 64
[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 75 46 7-10

[SF] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Nick Kyrgios (AUS)/ Jack Sock (USA)
[SF] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)

Purav-Fabrice scored straight sets win over 3rd seed South American pair for entering into the semis ... They will face Jebavy and Middelkoop, who defeated Rohan and Edouard ... Rohan-Edouard started with winning the first set but failed to capitalize on that ... Divij and Garcia-Lopez will be facing Kyrgios and Sock.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) bt (32) Marcelo Arevalo (ESA,146) 64 61

[Q3] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) vs (13) Elias Ymer (SWE,122)

What a match Prajnesh played against higher ranked Arevalo ... He wasn't made much-unforced errors and played perfect clay court game ... In the first set, both players held their respective service games till 8th game ... Prajnesh broke Arevalo in the 9th game and then held his service game comfortably for winning the set ... In the second set, after 0-1 Prajnesh won next 6 games breaking Arevalo in the 3rd, 5th and 7th games ... He won 8 games of last 9 games played for a dominating win ... So now only Ymer is in-between of entry in French Open main-draw for Prajnesh.

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At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[QF] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 67(7) 76(8) 10-8

Divij is in the semis with Garcia-Lopez ... They scored hard-fought comeback win after saving multiple match points to beat Skupski brothers in almost 2 hours match ... After losing the first set in the tie-break Divij-Guillermo won the second set tie-break on extra points ... They kept momentum in the match tie-break for completing this exciting win.

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At $100K Loughborough Challenger 2018, England

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) l Robert Galloway (USA)/ Nathaniel Lammons (USA) 76(7) 26 8-10

The top-seeds, Jeevan and Matt Reid lost in the match tie-break against American pair in the first round of Loughborough Challenger ... They started with winning the first set in a long tie-break but failed to keep momentum.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,181) vs (10) Evgeniya Rodina (RUS,116) 36 67(2)

[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) vs (32) Marcelo Arevalo (ESA,146)

Ankita lost in her first grand slam match against experienced Rodina ... After losing the first set Ankita took a lead and she was double break up at 5-2 ... But Rodina used her all experience and fought back and dominated the tie-break for completing win in straight sets ... Still, decent performance by Ankita on this big stage.

Prajnesh is facling clay courter Marcelo Arevalo in the second qualifying.

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At Davis Cup 2018 - World Group Playoff,

Serbia has decided to play tie on an indoor clay court in Kraljevo on 14-16 September 2018 ... The tie was tough but after court selection becomes lot tougher.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,226) l (10) Martin Klizan (SVK,121) 64 46 16
[Q1] (12) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,124) l Jay Clarke (GBR,228) 36 75 16
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) bt Salvatore Caruso (ITA,229) 64 64

Prajnesh scored straight sets win over Italian Caruso ... In both sets, Prajnesh took a break advantage and kept that winning the match ... After winning the first set he broke Caruso in the 5th game to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning the match.

RamK started breaking Jay to lead 2-0 but afterwards Jay took a control and won six games of next seven games for winning the set ... In the second set, RamK broke Jay in the 7th game, 4-3, but lost his serve in the next game, 4-all ... RamK again broke Caruso in the 11th and then held his serve for taking the match into decider ... But after that RamK struggled with his game and lost the final set easily.

Sumit was in control for one and half sets against in-form Klizan but after that Klizan played a very high quality tennis to win it ... He simply showed why he was junior French open champion and former top-25 player ... In the first set, Sumit broke Klizan in the 3rd game but failed to hold his serve in next game, 2-all ... Sumit again broke Klizan in the 7th game, 4-3, this time he managed to hold this break advantage for winning the set ... In the second set, Sumit broke Klizan in the 3rd game to lead 2-1 but when Sumit was 4-2 up Klizan raised his game ... He won next nine games, so won the second set 4-6 and was leading 0-5 ... Klizan won the final set comfortably, but still it was good outing for Sumit to take positives from this match as he stretched this quality clay court specialist.

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At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Jackson Withrow (USA) 76(6) 76(5)
[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA) 36 61 10-5

[QF] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)
[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)

Fabrice-Purav scored a hard fought win over Podlipnik-Castillo and Withrow in two tie-breaks.

Rohan-Edouard made a strong comeback after losing the first set ... They won the second and the match tie-break comfortably ... Next, they r facing Dutch-Czech pair.

In the quarters, Divij and Garcia-Lopez r facing Skupski brothers.

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At $7.7M AT andT Byron Nelson 2018, Dallas, Texas, USA (PGA Tour)

T26 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 68 67 72 67 -10 $55,825.00

The third cost Anirban top-20 finish, but still decent performance to finish inside top-30 after poor last few weeks.

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At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,226) vs (10) Martin Klizan (SVK,121)
[Q1] (12) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,124) vs Jay Clarke (GBR,228)
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) vs Salvatore Caruso (ITA,229)

The qualifying draw is out ... RamK is the 12th seed and facing young Jay Clarke in the first qualifying ... Prajnesh is facing Italian Caruso in the first qualifying ... A tough match is for Sumit as he is facing in-form Martin Klizan ... In his last two tournaments, he qualified and reached the quarter-finals in Munich Open and Barcelona Open ... In those tournaments, he had notable wins over Novak Djokovic, Feliciano Lopez, Florian Mayer etc and losses against Rafael Nadal and Hyeon Chung.

In another update, Divij is going to partner Yuki in the doubles ... This can be a good partnership but I hoped they played one of the tournament before French Open.

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At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[R1] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (1) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 64 62
[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Jackson Withrow (USA)
[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA)

This week, Rohan, Divij, and Purav r playing at Lyon with their respective partners ... Purav-Fabrice r playing against American-Chilean combination, Withrow, and Podlipnik-Castillo ... Rohan and Edouard r the 2nd seed and they r facing French pair.

Divij is playing with Spaniard Garcia-Lopez and had a tough first round against experienced veterans; current top-10 player Jean-Julien Rojer and his partner Aisam ... But, Divij and Garcia-Lopez started with straight sets win over the top-seeds ... A really good win for Divij.

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At $250K Internationaux de Strasbourg 2018, France

[R1] Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l Qiang Wang (CHN)/ Yafan Wang (CHN) 16 26

Prarthana played in Strasbourg tournament partnering Australian Adamczak and another one-sided loss against Chinese pair in the first round.

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At $100K Loughborough Challenger 2018, England

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) vs Robert Galloway (USA)/ Nathaniel Lammons (USA)

Jeevan is the top-seeds with Matt Reid and they r playing American pair in the first round of Loughborough Challenger.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (4) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ)/ Vladyslav Manafov (UKR) 76(1) 63

Doubles Final
(1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) w/o

Vishnu-Bala lifted another challenger level title as they received walkover from Elgin-Istomin due to Elgin medical condition ... This is their one of the biggest title ... Before that, they defeated 4th seed pair in straight sets.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[SF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,445) l Yue Yuan (CHN,403) 46 46

Another loss in $25K tournament semi-final for Rutuja against higher ranked Chinese girl, Yue Yuan ... Rutuja failed to repeat her previous rounds performance, but still good tournament for her as after a week her ranking will be first-time inside top-400.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Nikola Milojevic (SRB) 63 64
[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) l Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 57 63 8-10

[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (4) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ)/ Vladyslav Manafov (UKR)

Vishnu-Bala in the semis with straight sets win over Milojevic and Gabashvili ... Next, they r facing 4th seed pair.

Saki-VSP had a tough match against former top-60 doubles players Istomin and Elgin ... After losing the first set they tried fightback and won the second ... In the match tie-break, Istomin and Elgin were a better pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,445) bt Fatma AL Nabhani (OMA,513) 75 62

[SF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,445) vs Yue Yuan (CHN,403)

Rutuja scored an impressive win over experienced AL Nabhani ... Rutuja with an early break was up 3-1 but lost next four games to down 3-5 ... She made a strong comeback as won 10 of next 12 games ... From 3-5 down, she won next 4 games for winning the set and kept that momentum to win the second set with double break ... Next, she is facing higher ranked Chinese girl, Yue Yuan.

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At €5.44M Rome Masters 2018, Italy

[R2] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ Marcel Granollers (ESP) 67(5) 46

Another early loss for Rohan-Edouard, this time against Granollers-Cuevas.

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At $150K+H Busan Challenger 2018, Korea

[R2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,94) l Ze Zhang (CHN,265) 46 36

Surprising loss to Yuki against Zhang in straight sets ... Yuki broke Zhang in the 1st game but rain started in the 2nd game ... After rain break it was all downhill for Yuki ... He struggled with his overall game and made numerous unforced errors ... He was rushing early for the shot and was hitting wayward ... So not a good preparation for French Open.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) bt Filip Horansky (SVK,338) 06 64 64

[R2] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) l (2) Attila Balazs (HUN,199) 67(5) 67(3)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (ALT) Sergey Betov (BLR)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 76(2) 64
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) bt Marek Gengel (CZE)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA) 64 64

A very long day for Bala, as he completed his singles first round match ... He won that match against higher ranked Horansky ... Then after rest he was back on the court for his second round against top-200 Balazs ... Bala lost in two tie-breaks against this higher ranked ... After rest Bala again on the court for his doubles match partnering Vishnu ... They scored straight sets win over local pair ... Saki-VSP joined them in the quarters with a comfortable win over Lamasine-Gengel.

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At $100K+H Heilbronn Challenger 2018, Germany

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) l Sander Gille (BEL)/ Joran Vliegen (BEL) 63 36 4-10

Jeevan-Weissborn failed to keep momentum after winning the first set as Belgian pair controlled the match after that.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[SF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) l (4) Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ Ying Zhang (CHN) 76(6) 26 8-10

Rutuja and Emily lost against 4th seed Chinese pair in the match tie-break ... After winning the first set in the tie-break Rutuja and Emily gave chance to Chinese pair for comeback ... Our pair tried in the match tie-break but Chinese pair played better crucial points.

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At $165K Men's Allam British Open 2018, Hull, England

[R2] Saurav Ghosal (IND,13) l (6) Simon Rösner (GER,6) 6-11, 7-11, 3-11 (31m)

Saurav failed to challenge WR #6 Rösner and lost in straight games.

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At $125K+H Bordeaux Challenger 2018, France

[QF] (2) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) l Guillermo Duran (ARG)/ Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) 36 57

Purav-Fabrice r struggling on the clay ... They lost against Argentine pair in straight sets.

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At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Trnava, Slovakia

[R1] Madison Brengle (USA)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) l Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 16 16

Prarthana's struggle continues with different partner ... Another first round loss against a good pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,463) bt (3) Fang Ying Xun (CHN,265) 62 75

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,463) vs Fatma AL Nabhani (OMA,513)

Doubles
[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) bt (1) Alison Bai (AUS)/ Jia-Jing Lu (CHN) 64 64

[SF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs (4) Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ Ying Zhang (CHN)

Rutuja scored an impressive win over top-275 Xun in straight sets, Last week, Xun defeated Ankita but here, Rutuja showed her desire to win ... In the doubles, Rutuja with Webley-Smith scored an upset win over the top-seeds in straight sets ... Next, they r facing the 4th seed Chinese pair and in the singles, Rutuja is facing experienced AL Nabhani.

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At $165K Men's Allam British Open 2018, Hull, England

[Q1] Ramit Tandon (IND,65) l Adrian Waller (ENG,44) 4-11, 8-11, 11-4, 11-6, 2-11 (52m)
[Q1] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND,48) bt Nick Wall (ENG,264) 11-4, 11-7, 11-6 (21m)

[Q2] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND,48) l Adrian Waller (ENG,44) 8-11, 5-11, 5-11 (35m)

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,13) bt (Q) Greg Lobban (SCO,30) 11-9, 8-11, 6-11, 11-7, 11-3 (71m)

[R2] Saurav Ghosal (IND,13) vs (6) Simon Rösner (GER,6)

In prestigious British Open, Saurav started with a hard fought win over rising Scottish player, Greg Lobban ... After winning the first game Saurav lost next two games but he kept fighting and won next two games to complete the win ... Next, he is facing WR #6 German Rösner.

Before that in qualifying, our both players Ramit and Harry lost against Britisher Adrian Waller in the first and the second round respectively.

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At $165K Women's Allam British Open 2018, Hull, England

[R1] (13) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) l (Q) Yathreb Adel (EGY,28) 7-11, 3-11, 10-12 (27m)

In women's section, our challenge got over in the first round ... Disappointing loss of Joshna in straight games against young Egyptian qualifier Adel ... Dipika skipped this tournament.

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At $150K+H Busan Challenger 2018, Korea

[R1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,94) bt (SE) Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN,262) 36 76(6) 3-0 retd.

[R2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,94) vs Ze Zhang (CHN,265)

Yuki won a dogfight against in-form Nishioka ... Nishioka won the title last week at Gimcheon beating 2 top-100 players; Vasek Posipisil and Jordan Thompson ... In this match, both players played defensive game and with a single break advantage Nishioka won the first set ... In the second set, Yuki was an early break down but he broke Nishioka in the 4th game for 2-all ... He again broke Nishioka in the 6th game to lead 4-2, but Yuki failed to hold his serve in the 9th game when he was serving for the set, 5-4 ... In the tie-break, Yuki was mini-break down at 2-4 but he won 4 points from next 5 points to lead 6-5 ... Yuki missed a set point but converted the second ... In the final set, Yuki broke Nishioka in the 1st game to lead 1-0 ... After that Yuki saved a couple of break points before holding his serve ... Yuki converted 4th break point to up with double break, 3-0 ... Nishioka retired from the match, may be he was tired after last week's heroic ... Next, Yuki is facing Chinese experienced player, Ze Zhang.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q3] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) bt (3) Tristan Lamasine (FRA,390) 61 75
[Q3] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,422) l Manual Pana Lopez (ARG,630) 46 67(5)

[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) vs Filip Horansky (SVK,338) 06 64 3-3 (suspended due to bad light)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (ALT) Sergey Betov (BLR)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR)

Bala struggled early against Horansky and lost the first set cheaply ... He recovered to win the second and match suspended as both players were 3-all.
Before that, Bala scored straight sets upset win over top-400 Frenchman Lamasine for entering into the main-draw ... But Mukund lost against Argentine Pana Lopez in straight sets.

In the doubles, Bala and Vishnu r facing local alternate pair.

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B At $125K+H Bordeaux Challenger 2018, France

[R1] (2) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) bt Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Jackson Withrow (USA) 75 60

[QF] (2) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) vs Guillermo Duran (ARG)/ Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)

Purav-Fabrice started with a comfortable win ... Next, they r facing Argentine pair, Duran and Gonzalez are former top-50 doubles players.

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At $100K+H Heilbronn Challenger 2018, Germany

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) bt Dustin Brown (GER)/ Darian King (BAR) 63 64

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) vs Sander Gille (BEL)/ Joran Vliegen (BEL)

A comfortable straight sets win for Jeevan with his new partner Weissborn against Brown and King ... Next, they r facing Belgian pair, who defeated the 2nd seed Skupski brothers.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,463) bt (WC) Yanni Liu (CHN,782) 63 75
[R1] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,254) l Wushuang Zheng (CHN,564) 1-4 retd.

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,463) vs (3) Fang Ying Xun (CHN,265)

Good to see Rutuja started with a win against local player ... Next, she is having difficult match against Chinese top-300 player Xun ... Karman retired from the match after the 5th game ... Hopefully not a serious injury scare.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,400) l Manual Pana Lopez (ARG,630) 46 36
[Q2] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,422) bt Mikhail Fufygin (RUS,575) 57 61 62

[Q3] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) vs (3) Tristan Lamasine (FRA,390)
[Q3] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,422) vs Manual Pana Lopez (ARG,630)

Mukund scored a really good win against Fufygin ... After losing the first set he dominated the match for a win ... Next, he is facing Argentine Manual Pana Lopez, who defeated Arjun convincingly.

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At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Trnava, Slovakia

[R1] Madison Brengle (USA)/ Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) vs Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)

Prarthana finds good partner in Madison Brengle, but facing a tough pair which having former top-30 doubles player Voskoboeva.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Wuhan, China

[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,463) vs (WC) Yanni Liu (CHN,782)
[R1] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,254) vs Wushuang Zheng (CHN,564)

Doubles
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) bt Yile Cheng (CHN)/ Sijia Wei (CHN) 62 64
[R1] (2) Beatrice Gumulya (INA)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) l Shilin Xu (CHN)/ Yue Yuan (CHN) 64 46 1-10

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND) / Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs (1) Alison Bai (AUS)/ Jia-Jing Lu (CHN)

This week, Karman and Rutuja r playing in China ... Having winnable matches in the first round against local players ... In the doubles, Rutuja started with a win partnering experienced Webley-Smith but 2nd seed Karman and Gumulya lost after winning the first set.

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At $5K Men's Men's CityView Open 2018, New York, USA

[Q1] Aditya Jagtap (IND,206) bt Kush Mahan (KEN,UNR) 11-5, 11-6, 11-7 (28m)
[Q2] Aditya Jagtap (IND,206) bt Ahad Raza (CAN,313) 11-7, 11-7, 11-9 (37m)

[R1] (Q) Aditya Jagtap (IND,206) bt (3) Ahmed Hosny (EGY,109) 11-9, 4-11, 12-10, 11-9 (47m)
[QF] (Q) Aditya Jagtap (IND,206) bt (6) Spencer Lovejoy (USA,183) 12-10, 8-11, 11-6, 5-11, 11-6
[SF] (Q) Aditya Jagtap (IND,206) bt (8) Hugo Varela (ESP,198) 11-9, 4-11, 11-2, 11-2

Final
(Q) Aditya Jagtap (IND,206) bt (5) Alister Walker (BOT,181) 11-8, 11-5, 11-6

Aditya won this lower level tournament in USA as a qualifier ... In the first round, he defeated top-110 ranked Hosny and in the quarters, he defeated higher ranked local player in closely fought match.

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At €5.44M Rome Masters 2018, Italy

[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bye

Rohan-Edouard has received bye in the first round and they r in the bottom draw.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q2] (8) N. Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,469) l Khumoyon Sultanov (UZB,844) 46 36
[Q2] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) bt Mikhail Elgin (RUS,837) 63 76(4)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Andrea Basso (ITA)/ Luca Vanni (ITA)
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) vs Marek Gengel (CZE)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA)

Our only two players managed to complete their matches in rain interruption ... VSP lost one sided match against lower ranked Uzbek player, but Bala moved into the final qualifying with straight sets win.

Vishnu-Bala r facing Italian pair ... Saki-VSP r facing French-Czech pair ... Not sure if Saki decides to concentrate more on the doubles.

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At $125K Bordeaux Challenger 2018, France

[R1] (2) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) vs Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Jackson Withrow (USA)

This week, Purav-Fabrice r the 2nd seed and facing Chilean-American pair in the first round.

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At $100K+H Heilbronn Challenger 2018, Germany

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) vs Dustin Brown (GER)/ Darian King (BAR)

Jeevan is in Europe and playing in Germany with Weissborn ... They r having a tricky match against Brown-King.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Luan, China

P.C. to Ankita FB page

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,194) l (6) Fang Ying Xun (CHN,290) 76(5) 36 67(3)
[QF] (5) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,270) l (4) Harriet Dart (GBR,214) 62 26 36

Doubles
[SF] (3) Harriet Dart (GBR)/ Ankita Raina (IND) bt Shuo Feng (CHN)/ Jia-Qi Kang (CHN) 26 75 10-5
[SF] (4) Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) l Fangzhou Liu (CHN)/ Fang Ying Xun (CHN) 36 76(4) 6-10

Doubles Final
(3) Harriet Dart (GBR)/ Ankita Raina (IND) bt Fangzhou Liu (CHN)/ Fang Ying Xun (CHN) 63 63

Surprising loss of Ankita in the quarters ... She struggled with her consistent play and bad umpiring ... After winning the first set she lost the second ... In the third set, Ankita was a break down at 2-3 but he immediately broke for 3-all ... But in the tie-break, she failed to challenge Xun ... Karman also lost in three sets against Dart after winning the first set. In the doubles Ankita lifted the title with Harriet Dart, they defeated local pair comfortably ... Before that, they scored a comeback win over Chinese pair after losing the first ... But Karman and Guo failed to do the same and lost in the match tie-break.

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At $150K+H Busan Challenger 2018, Korea

[R1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,86) vs (SE) Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN,362)

Yuki is coming out of injury and playing in Busan challenger ... A tricky first round match against former top-60 Japanese Nishioka, who is also playing after a long injury break.

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At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (8) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,469) bt (WC) Pavel Tsoy (UZB,1072) 64 61
[Q1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,685) l (2) Roman Safiulin (RUS,385) 26 67(6)
[Q1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) bt (7) Vladyslav Manafov (UKR,468) 64 76(5)
[Q1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,400) bt Vladimir Ivanov (EST,712) 46 76(4) 76(6)
[Q1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,512) l Mikhail Fufygin (RUS,575) 36 67(7)
[Q1] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,422) bt Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,515) 64 76(5)

[Q2] (8) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,469) vs Khumoyon Sultanov (UZB,844)
[Q2] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,549) vs Mikhail Elgin (RUS,837)
[Q2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,400) vs Manual Pana Lopez (ARG,630)
[Q2] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,422) vs Mikhail Fufygin (RUS,575)

Expected win for Sasi, VSP and Arjun in the qualifying, but Arjun needed to dig deep after losing the first set ... He won next two sets in the tie-breaks ... Bala scored an upset win over top-500 Manafov, but Sid lost against lower ranked Russian.

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At €7.1M Mutua Madrid Masters 2018, Spain

[R2] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 64 67(4) 5-10

Disappointing loss of Rohan-Edouard after winning the first set against Klaasen-Venus.

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At $150K+H Aix en Provence Challenger 2018, France

[R1] (1) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) l Jonathan Eysseric (FRA)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 67(4) 57

Purav-Fabrice struggle continues as another first round loss against Eysseric-Salisbury.

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At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[R2] (Q) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) bt (2) Nikola Milojevic (SRB,208) 63 06 62

[QF] (Q) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) l Cem Ilkel (TUR, 258) 63 26 36

Doubles
[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l Altug Celikbilek (TUR)/ Cem Ilkel (TUR) 46 67(7)

An excellent win by Mukund in the second round against WR #208 three sets ... But in the quarters, he lost against Ilkel in three sets ... Still very good week for Mukund as he reached the quarter final as an qualifier.

Bala and Vishnu r still searching for their magic, as again they lost in the quarters in straight sets against Turkish pair.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Luan, China

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,194) bt Ao Gai (CHN,509) 61 76(6)

[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,194) bt Hanyu Guo (CHN,333) 64 75
[R2] (5) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,270) bt Yuxuan Zhang (CHN,328) 64 57 61

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,194) vs (6) Fang Ying Xun (CHN,290)
[QF] (5) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,270) vs (4) Harriet Dart (GBR,214)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) bt (WC) Yi Yuan (CHN)/ WanNing Zhu (CHN) 62 60

[QF] (3) Harriet Dart (GBR)/ Ankita Raina (IND) bt Beatrice Gumulya (INA)/ Jessy Rompies (INA) 75 26 10-8
[QF] (4) Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) bt Mai Minokoshi (JPN)/ Erika Sema (JPN) 26 63 11-9

Ankita's excellent performance continues ... With back to back straight sets win over Chinese players she is in the quarters ... Karman also joined her into the quarters with hard fought win ... Next, Karman is facing Ankita's doubles partner Dart and Ankita is facing another Chinese challenge in Xun.

In the doubles also, Ankita and Karman in the semis with their respective partners with the match tie-breaks win in the quarters.

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At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France

[R1] Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Dayana Yastremska (UKR) l Vera Lapko (BLR)/ Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 76(3) 06 7-10

Prarthana is failing to break her ongoing slump and here she lost in the first round with her new Ukrainian partner.

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At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) bt Sanjar Faziyev (UZB,458) 46 62 76(4)

[R2] (Q) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) vs (2) Nikola Milojevic (SRB,208)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ) 63 75
[R1] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) l Yaraslav Shyla (BLR)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 26 67(3)

[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Altug Celikbilek (TUR)/ Cem Ilkel (TUR)

Mukund scored an impressive win over Faziyev, who was former #253 player ... After losing the first set Mukund fought back to win the second comfortably ... In the decider, Mukund lost his serve in the 7th game, 3-4 ... He broke Faziyev while he was serving for the match at 4-5, to take the set in the tie-break ... Mukund won the tie-break for entering in the second round ... Next, he is facing 2nd seed Milojevic.

Bala-Vishnu started with a win ... Next, they will face Turkish pair ... But Saki and VSP lost in the first round against Yang and Shyla.

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At $50K+H Braga Challenger 2018, Portugal

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,225) l Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol (ESP,280) 46 06

Doubles
[R1] Andrea Collarini (ARG)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) l (3) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Hunter Reese (USA) 67(4) 26

Sumit lost in straight sets against Gutierrez-Ferrol ... Another poor loss for Sumit ... In the doubles also, he lost in straight sets with his partner Collarini.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Luan, China

[R1] (5) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,270) bt Xu Liu Sun (CHN,385) 63 62

Doubles
[R1] (3) Harriet Dart (GBR)/ Ankita Raina (IND) bt Nika Kukharchuk (RUS)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 64 63

This week, Karman scored a comfortable win over her Chinese opponent ... Ankita and Harriet also started with a comfortable win in the doubles.

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At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q3] (2) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) bt Marek Gengel (CZE,724) 62 64
[Q3] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,468) l Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN.514) 76(4) 46 67(2)

[R1] (Q) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) vs Sanjar Faziyev (UZB,458)

Mukund qualified for the main draw with straight sets win ... Next, he is facing local player Faziyev, who was ranked #253 a year back.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Luan, China

[R1] (5) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,270) vs Xu Liu Sun (CHN,385)
[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,194) vs Ao Gai (CHN,509)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) vs (WC) Yi Yuan (CHN)/ WanNing Zhu (CHN)
[R1] (3) Harriet Dart (GBR)/ Ankita Raina (IND) vs Nika Kukharchuk (RUS)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR)

This week, Ankita and Karman, both r seeded and having winnable matches ... In the doubles also, they r seeded with their respective partners.

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At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France

[R1] Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Dayana Yastremska (UKR) vs Vera Lapko (BLR)/ Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)

Prarthana is playing France and partnering Yastremska ... They r facing experienced former top-30 doubles player, Galina Voskoboeva and her partner Vera.

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At $1.3M Volunteers of America LPGA Texas Classic 2018, The Colony, Texas, USA (LPGA Tour)

T6 Aditi Ashok (IND) 69 66 -7 $40,275.00

Aditi scored a superb 5 under in the second round to give herself best finish on LPGA tour ... She took an opportunity as this tournament reduced to 36 holes after the rain ... Aditi climbs to her best World ranking, #66, after this top-10 finish.

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At $925K the GS Caltex Maekyung Open Golf Championship 2018, Seongnam, Korea

T2 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 72 70 71 70 -1 $75473
T5 Ajeetesh Sandhu (IND) 67 71 74 72 PAR $35085
T29 Shiv Kapur (IND) 69 72 74 76 +7 $6486
T55 Chikkarangappa S. (IND) 72 70 80 74 +12 $3976
T67 Arjun Atwal (IND) 75 73 76 75 +15 $3087

Korea’s Sanghyun Park won the event again with a par at the third play-off hole ... Park, who won the event in 2016, had to go the extra distance to lift his sixth professional title after he carded an even-par-71 in the final round to force his way into a play-off with compatriots Yikeun Chang, Junggon Hwang and India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar ... Bhullar threatened to break the dominance of the Koreans at the GS Caltex Maekyung Open Golf Championship which has not welcomed a foreign winner since American Mark Calcavecchia emerged victorious in 2004 ... he was however the first player to bow out from the four-man play-off at the first hole.

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At $75K Savannah Challenger 2018, Georgia, USA

Doubles Final
(3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Luke Bambrige (GBR)/ Akira Santillan (AUS) 26 26

Another loss in the final for Jeevan-Enrique ... Bambridge and Santillan proved too strong for them.

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At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q2] (2) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) bt Luca Margaroli (SUI,824) 63 63
[Q2] (8) Siddharth Rawat (IND,509) l Marek Gengel (CZE,724) 67(3) 67(1)
[Q2] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,468) bt Oleksander Bielinsky (UKR,877) 62 62

[Q3] (2) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) vs Marek Gengel (CZE,724)
[Q3] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,468) vs Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN.514)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ)
[R1] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) vs Yaraslav Shyla (BLR)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

Mukund and VSP moved into the final qualifying with straight sets win ... Mukund is facing Czech player Marek Gengel, who defeated Sid in two tie-breaks ... VSP is facing Japanese Sekiguchi.

In the doubles, Saki is playing with VSP and they r the 4th seeds ... They r in the same draw of the top seeds Vishnu and Bala.

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At $150K+H Aix en Provence Challenger 2018, France

[R1] (1) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) vs Jonathan Eysseric (FRA)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Purav and Fabrice r the top-seed in big French challenger.

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At $50K+H Braga Challenger 2018, Portugal

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,225) vs Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol (ESP,280)

Doubles
[R1] Andrea Collarini (ARG)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs (3) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Hunter Reese (USA)

Sumit is facing the Spanish player, Gutierrez-Ferrol, in the first round of Braga open.

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At $10K Men's Abu Dhabi Open 2018, UAE

Final
(3) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) bt (1) Omar Abdel Meguid (EGY,41) 11-6, 6-11, 11-3, 11-2 (58m)

Ramit Tandon defeated top-seed Omar Meguid in four games to lift the title ... In the first 2 games Ramit managed to run Omar all over the court to be tired ... In last two games Omar failed to challenge Ramit.

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At €7.1M Mutua Madrid Masters 2018, Munich, Germany

[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,120) l (4) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA,74) 46 36

Doubles
[R1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bye

With a single break in both sets helped Herbert to beat RamK in straight sets.

In the doubles, Rohan-Edouard r seeded and they have a bye in the first round.

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At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (2) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) bt Mikhail Elgin (RUS,834) 63 52 retd.
[Q1] (8) Siddharth Rawat (IND,509) bt (WC) Sanetulla Kutubaev (UZB,NR) 64 61
[Q1] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,468) bt Timur Khabubilin (KAZ,785) 57 63 60

[Q2] (2) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) vs Luca Margaroli (SUI,824)
[Q2] (8) Siddharth Rawat (IND,509) vs Marek Gengel (CZE,724)
[Q2] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,468) vs Oleksander Bielinsky (UKR,877)

Mukund, Sid and VSP r in the second qualifying round with contrasting wins.

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At $25K+H Nigeria F3 Futures 2018, Abuja

Singles Final
(4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,397) l Joao Magalhaes Hueb de Menezes (BRA,394) 36 16

In-form Joao proved too strong for Arjun in his one-sided loss ... Still, this was better week as he reached in the final.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Cairo, Egypt

[SF] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,997) l (1) Nuria PARRIZAS-DIAZ (ESP,441) 46 16

Snehadevi lost in straight sets against the top-seed Spanish girl.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R1] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) bt (Q) Jiakang LI (CHN,1211) 61 60
[R2] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) bt Natasha PALHA (IND,939) 62 62
[QF] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) bt (Q) Xinyu CAI (CHN,UNR) 60 60

[SF] (5) Zeel DESAI (IND,683) l (3) Nudnida LUANGNAM (THA, 606) 46 06

Doubles
[R1] Zeel DESAI (IND)/ Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) bt Mariana CORREA (ECU)/ Chang LIU (CHN) 63 75
[QF] Zeel DESAI (IND)/ Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) bt (3) Patcharin CHEAPCHANDEJ (THA)/ Alexandra WALTERS (AUS) 64 64
[SF] Zeel DESAI (IND)/ Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) bt Lorraine M. GUILLERMO (USA)/ Natasha PALHA (IND) 62 64

Women's Doubles Final
Zeel DESAI (IND)/ Bunyawi THAMCHAIWAT (THA) bt Yuqi SHENG (CHN)/ Aldila SUTJIADI (INA) 75 61

In Thailand ITF, Zeel reached in the semis of singles and lost against experienced Luangnam in straight sets ... In the doubles, she lifted title partnering Thai girl Bunyawi Thamchaiwat without losing a single set.

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At $15K Uganda F1 Futures 2018, Kampala

[R1] (8) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1161) bt (Q) Vasisht CHERUKU (IND,1949) 76(5) 75
[R2] (8) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1161) bt Giovani SAMAHA (LBN,1295) 67(8) 62 63
[QF] (8) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1161) bt Kunal ANAND (IND,1168) 64 36 75

[SF] (8) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1161) l (1) Ivan NEDELKO (RUS,267) 26 67(3)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Giovani SAMAHA (LBN) bt Niklas JOHANSSON (SWE)/ Christoffer SOLBERG (SWE) 64 76(3)
[QF] (2) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Giovani SAMAHA (LBN) bt Duncan MUGABE (UGA)/ Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BDI) 64 62
[SF] (2) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Giovani SAMAHA (LBN) bt (4) Darko BOJANOVIC (BIH)/ Shunsuke WAKITA (JPN) 67(4) 75 10-7

Doubles Final
(2) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Giovani SAMAHA (LBN) bt (1) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Goran MARKOVIC (SRB) 63 26 10-8

Vinayak reached in the semis before losing to top-seed Nedelko ... In the doubles, Vinayak and his partner lost in the final against Kunala Anand and his partner.

Squash News

At $10K Men's Abu Dhabi Open 2018, UAE

[R1] (3) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) bt Abdullah Al Muzayen (KUW,119) 11-4, 2-0 ret. (20m)
[QF] (3) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) bt (8) Robert Downer (ENG,155) 11-6, 11-4, 11-3 (31m)
[SF] (3) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) bt (5) Shehab Essam (EGY,77) 17-15, 6-11, 11-7, 11-2 (52m)

[F] (3) Ramit Tandon (IND,65) vs (1) Omar Abdel Meguid (EGY,41)

Ramit is in the final of $10K Abu Dhabi open with couple of good wins.

Football News

At the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, United Arab Emirates

Group A
United Arab Emirates (#81), India, (#97), Bahrain (#116) and Thailand (#122)

India have been drawn into Group A along with hosts United Arab Emirates, Thailand and Bahrain in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup ... India's opening game will be against Thailand on 6th January 2018, then India will face hosts UAE on January 10 ... In their final group match, they will face Bahrain on January 14 ... This isn't easy group us considering our past results against these teams, though we are the 2nd highest ranked the team in the group.

Athletic News

At the IAAF Diamond League 2018, Doha, Qatar

Javelin Throw
4 Neeraj Chopra (IND) 87.43m (NR)

Young 20 yrs old Neeraj Chopra came up with a massive 87.43m throw at the season-opening Doha Diamond league to improve his own national record and finished the 4th in the 10-man competition ... This throw would have earned him a medal in the last five Olympics, other than Sydney ... The Germans ruled the event taking the top three spots and it was the first time in history that three athletes recorded 90m plus throws in at any competition ... Thomas Rohler took the top spot with a 91.78m throw with compatriots Johannes Vetter (91.56m) and Hofmann Andreas (90.08m) finished second and third respectively.

Tennis News

At €486K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open 2018, Turkey

[SF] (2) Marcin Matkowski POL)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Dominic Inglot (GBR)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE) 46 62 4-10

Divij-Matkowski lost in the match tie-break against Lindstedt-Inglot.

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At $75K Savannah Challenger 2018, Georgia, USA

[SF] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Hunter Johnson (USA)/ Yates Johnson (USA) 64 62

The second final for Jeevan-Enrique in two weeks ... They defeated American pair comfortably.

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At $25K+H Nigeria F3 Futures 2018, Abuja

[SF] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) 63 36 61

[F] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) vs Joao MENEZES (BRA,394)

Doubles Final
(1) Arjun KADHE (IND)/ Ronnie SCHNEIDER (USA) l (2) Remi BOUTILLIER (FRA)/ Tom JOMBY (FRA) 64 67(3) 3-10

Arjun defeated Suraj in three sets for entering into the final ... He is facing in-form Brazilian Menezes, who was a winner and a finalist in last two weeks and win 13 out of 14 matches in these three weeks.

Arjun-Ronnie failed to repeat last week's title win as they lost against the 2nd seeds after winning the first set ... But still he will be inside top-300 in the doubles ranking after these two weeks points get added.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Cairo, Egypt

[R1] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,997) bt Stephanie Judith VISSCHER (NED,UNR) 60 62
[R2] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,997) bt (4) Riya BHATIA (IND,619) 64 76(5)
[QF] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,997) bt Marlies SZUPPER (AUT,976) 61 60

[SF] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,997) vs (1) Nuria PARRIZAS-DIAZ (ESP,441)

This week also Snehadevi is having a terrific run and another semi-final ... Next, having a tough match against top-450 Spanish girl.

Tennis News

At $75K Savannah Challenger 2018, Georgia, USA

[QF] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Robert Galloway (USA)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) 26 64 10-5

Jeevan and Enrique r in the semis with a win in the match tie-break against Galloway and Siljestrom ... After losing the first set they made a strong comeback in the match.

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At $75K+H Ostrava Challenger 2018, Czech Republic

[QF] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Pedro Martinez (ESP) l (1) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Andreas Mies (GER) 26 46

Sumit-Pedro paring lost in straight sets against the top-seeds.

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At $25K+H Nigeria F3 Futures 2018, Abuja

[QF] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) bt (1) Youssef HOSSAM (EGY,319) 76(9) 63
[QF] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) bt (8) Jelle SELS (NED,483) 63 63

[QF] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) vs Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075)

An impressive straight sets win by Suraj over the top-seed Egyptian ... After winning the long tie-break he dominated the top-325 Hossam in the second ... Next, he is facing Arjun, who scored a comfortable win over Sels.

Tennis News

At €561K BMW Open 2018, Munich, Germany

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Tim Puetz (GER)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 57 76(5) 5-10

Bala and Vishnu lost in a close match against German pair ... After losing the first set our pair tried fightback winning the second set in the tie-break ... In the match tie-break, they were 0-4 down but made it 4-all ... After that German pair took control and won 6 of next 7 points for winning the match.

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At €486K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open 2018, Turkey

[QF] (2) Marcin Matkowski POL)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Dusan Lajovic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) w/o

Divij and Matkowski received walkover by Serbian pair due to Troicki's arm injury..

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At $125K Kunming Open 2018, Anning, China

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,193) l (2) Yafan Wang (CHN,86) 67(4) 57

Doubles
[R1] Prarthana Thombare (IND)/ Fang Ying Xun (CHN) l Elitsa Kostova (BUL)/ Aleksandrina Naydenova (BUL) 57 64 7-10

Ankita lost in two tight sets against Wang ... Ankita had her chances to win both the sets as she was a break up early but Wang played better on key points ... A good match against a top 100 player, but she needs to start winning these matches.

Prarthana and Xun lost in the match tie-break against Bulgarian pair.

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At $75K Savannah Challenger 2018, Georgia, USA

[R1] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Nick Chappell (USA)/ Miles Seemann (USA) 36 63 10-4

[QF] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Robert Galloway (USA)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

A good comeback win by Jeevan-Enrique against American pair ... Next, they r facing Siljestrom-Galloway.

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At $75K+H Ostrava Challenger 2018, Czech Republic

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Pedro Martinez (ESP) bt Zdenek Kolar (CZE)/ Adam Pavlasek (CZE) 63 67(6) 10-3

[QF] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Pedro Martinez (ESP) vs (1) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Andreas Mies (GER)

Sumit scored a win in the doubles with his Spaniard partner ... They had a chance of winning this match in two sets as had 2 match points in the tie-break at 6-4 but lost next 4 points to lose the set ... Sumit-Pedro recovered and dominated the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing the top-seed pair.

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At $25K+H Nigeria F3 Futures 2018, Abuja

[R2] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) bt (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,494) 57 63 53 retd.
[R2] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) bt Mirko MARTINEZ (SUI,1118) 63 67(3) 61
[R2] (WC) Dalwinder SINGH (IND,1168) l (8) Jelle SELS (NED,483) 36 46

[QF] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) vs (1) Youssef HOSSAM (EGY,319)
[QF] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) vs (8) Jelle SELS (NED,483)

Suraj scored an impressive upset win over top-500 Japnese opponent, but next, having lot tougher match against the top-seed Egyptian ... Arjun needed three sets to win against his lower ranked Swiss opponent ... Next, he is facing top-500 Dutch player, who defeated Dalwinder.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,531) l (3) Ekaterine Gorgodze (GEO,316) 16 06

Bad loss as Rutuja overpowered by Georgian opponent, she managed to win a single game.

Tennis News

At €561K BMW Open 2018, Munich, Germany

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Puraj Raja (IND) l (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Rjeev Ram (USA) 75 26 6-10

Purav-Fabrice lost in the match tie-break after winning the first set ... They failed to keep momentum and intensity after the first set.

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At €486K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open 2018, Turkey

[R1] (2) Marcin Matkowski POL)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Radu Albot (MDA)/ Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO) 75 63

[QF] (2) Marcin Matkowski POL)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Dusan Lajovic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB)

Divij started with straight sets win over Albot and Basilashvili partnering Matkowski ... Next, they r facing experienced Serbian players.

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At $125K Kunming Open 2018, Anning, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,193) bt (WC) Qianhui Tang (CHN,803) 62 61

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,193) vs (2) Yafan Wang (CHN,86)

Expected dominating win for Ankita against lowly ranked local player ... Next, she is facing top-100 Chinese Yafan Wang.

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At $75K Savannah Challenger 2018, Georgia, USA

[R1] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Nick Chappell (USA)/ Miles Seemann (USA)

This week Jeevan and Enrique r the 3rd seeds and facing American pair in the first round.

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At $25K+H Nigeria F3 Futures 2018, Abuja

[R1] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) bt (Q) Franco FEITT (ARG,1175) 67(4) 60 63
[R1] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397)bt (WC) Diego MATOS (BRA,1872) 60 76(4)
[R1] (WC) Dalwinder SINGH (IND,1168) bt (Q) Stephan GERRITSEN (NED,1026) 62 76(4)
[R1] (Q) Anurag NENWANI (IND,1359) l (Q) Thomas OTU (NGR,1872) 57 26
[R1] Aryan GOVEAS (IND,737) l (5) Moez ECHARGUI (TUN,464) 36 63 16

[R2] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) vs (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,494)
[R2] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) vs Mirko MARTINEZ (SUI,1118)
[R2] (WC) Dalwinder SINGH (IND,1168) vs (8) Jelle SELS (NED,483)

This week Arjun started with a win in the singles ... Next, he is facing Swiss guy Mirko Martinez ... Dalwinder and Suraj also started with a win against qualifiers ... Next, both r facing seeded opponents ... Aryan failed to repeat last week's performance and lost in three sets against Echargui.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia

[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,531) bt (WC) Zoziya Kardava (GEO,UNR) 64 61

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,531) vs (3) Ekaterine Gorgodze (GEO,316)

Rutuja started with a comfortable straight sets win ... Next, she is having tough match against local top-325 player.