Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 63 62

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Benjamin Becker (GER)/ Michael Kohlmann (GER)
[QF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs Arnaud Clement (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)

Hesh and Max scored very convincing win over American big servers to moved into quarters.
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At $35K+H Napoli Challenger, Italy

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (WC) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Enrico Fioravante (ITA) 63 76(5)
[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (WC) Biaz Kavcic (SLO)/ Franco Skugor (CRO) W/O

After tight win in first round against wildcard pair our pair got walkover in quarter-final ... So with one win they r in semis.
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At $35K+H Saint-Brieuc Challenger, France

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l (2) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 36 36

This European challenger tour is turning into toughest for Harsh, with bad draw or with performance.

Football News

Probables are announced for the AFC Asian Cup 2011.

Goalkeepers - Subrata Paul, Subhashish Roy Choudhury, Arindam Bhattacharya
Defenders - I Surkumar Singh, N S Manju, Samir Naik, Mohanraj, Mahesh Gawli, Gouramangi Singh, Anwar, Govin Singh, Deepak Mondal, Rakesh Masih
Midfielders - Steven Dias, Climax Lawrence, N P Pradeep, Anthony Pereira, Lukram James Singh, Rennedy Singh, Mehrajuddin Wadoo, Syed Rahim Nabi, Baldeep Singh, Clifford Miranda, Jagpreet Singh
Strikers - Bhaichung Bhutia, Sunil Chhetri, Abhishek Yadav, Mohammed Rafi, Sushil Kumar Singh, Baljit Sahni

Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 46 63 10-8

After losing first set Lee and Lukas scored victory in super tie-break to moved into quarters ... They r only seeded pair remaining in top draw after top-seed Nestor and Zimo lost in second round.
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At $10K India F3 Futures, Vijayawada

Singles First Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) 62 62
(Q) Akash WAGH (IND) bt (SE) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) 64 57 62
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (Q) Igor KARPOV (RUS) 64 46 63
(7) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 62 62
(3) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) bt Ashutosh SINGH (IND) 4-1 Retd.
(WC) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 64 75
Almog MASHIACH (ISR) bt Christopher RACZ (USA) 64 5-2 Retd
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (Q) Peter AARTS (USA) 76(2) 64
(6) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) bt (WC) Vikram REDDY B (IND) 63 26 75
(Q) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 62 64
Stephan FRANSEN (NED) bt (Q) Abhishek S.V. (IND) 60 62
(4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Adrian SIKORA (SVK) 61 76(2)
(8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt Divij SHARAN (IND) 36 75 64
(Q) Kamala KANNAN (IND) bt Karan RASTOGI (IND) 64 76(4)
Yannick NELORD (IND) bt (Q) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) 75 75
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) 76(4) 46 64

Doubles First Round
(1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt KANNAN (IND)/ MOHAMMED (IND) 62 64
NELORD (IND)/ THOMPSON (USA) bt MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 76(4) 76(4)
(4) CHEN (TPE)/ ROY (IND) bt MANUJA (IND)/ REDDY B (IND) 62 64
JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ KHAN (IND) bt TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND) 64 63
MARQUIS (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) bt KARPOV (RUS)/ STARKOV (RUS) 16 76(4) 10-4
(3) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) bt GARZELLI (ITA)/ VILLAR (ARG) 62 62
FILENKOV (RUS)/ FRANSEN (NED) bt AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) 76(1) 75
NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ SINGH (IND) 64 76(3)

Day of upsets, Last week both finalists lost in first round against qualifiers ... Kamala Kannan defeated last week winner Karan in first round and other hand Akash Wagh scored upset win over last week's finalist Frenchman Romain Sichez ... Kaza Vinayak also scored upset win over higher ranked Vignesh.

2nd seed pair Rohan and Ashutosh got upset in doubles first round.

Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[R1] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Ross Hutchins (GBR)/ Jordan Kerr (AUS) 64 76(4)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt Stephen Huss (AUS)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 64 75

[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)
[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA)
Good start for Mahesh and Max, this was their supposed to be first win of the year over proper doubles pair ... Lee and Lukas also started with straight sets win.
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At $35K+H Napoli Challenger, Italy (Red clay)

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (WC) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Enrico Fioravante (ITA)

Rohan is top-seed with Aisam in this Napoli challenger.
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At $35K+H Saint-Brieuc Challenger, France (Red clay)

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs (2) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR)

Very tough first round match for Harsh and Treat on the clay.

Motorsports News
At 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship, Australia

So this week also Force India earned points as Vitantonio Liuzzi finished on 7th position ... Importantly Karun Chandhok finished his and the HRT team’s first-ever finish, at the second attempt.

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Tennis News
At $10K India F3 Futures, Vijayawada

Singles First Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) vs (WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND)
(SE) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) vs (Q) Akash WAGH (IND)
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) vs (Q) Igor KARPOV (RUS)
(7) Rupesh ROY (IND) vs (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)
(3) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) vs Ashutosh SINGH (IND)
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) vs (WC) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)
Almog MASHIACH (ISR) vs Christopher RACZ (USA)
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (Q) Peter AARTS (USA)
(6) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) vs (WC) Vikram REDDY B (IND)
Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) vs (Q) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL)
Stephan FRANSEN (NED) vs (Q) Abhishek S.V. (IND)
(4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) vs Adrian SIKORA (SVK)
(8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt Divij SHARAN (IND)
Karan RASTOGI (IND) vs (Q) Kamala KANNAN (IND)
Yannick NELORD (IND) vs (Q) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS)
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) vs (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS)

Doubles First Round
(1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) vs KANNAN (IND)/ MOHAMMED (IND)
MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) vs NELORD (IND)/ THOMPSON (USA)
(4) CHEN (TPE)/ ROY (IND) vs MANUJA (IND)/ REDDY B (IND)
JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ KHAN (IND) vs TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND)
MARQUIS (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) vs KARPOV (RUS)/ STARKOV (RUS)
(3) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) vs GARZELLI (ITA)/ VILLAR (ARG)
AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) vs FILENKOV (RUS)/ FRANSEN (NED)
(2) GAJJAR (IND)/ SINGH (IND) vs NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)

Final Qualifying Round
Akash WAGH (IND) bt (1) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) 06 62 1-0 Retd.
Igor KARPOV (RUS) bt (2) Vijay KANNAN (IND) 76(3) Retd.
Kamala KANNAN (IND) bt (3) Mithun MURALI (IND) 63 57 61
Abhishek S.V. (IND) bt (4) Ronak MANUJA (IND) 75 75
(5) Peter AARTS (USA) bt (14) I-Ta CHEN (TPE) 64 61
(9) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL) bt (6) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 63 60
(13) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) bt (7) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) 75 62
(8) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) bt (10) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 67(5) 64 75

First Qualifying Round
(1) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) bye
Akash WAGH (IND) bt Krishik DIVAKAR (IND) 60 3-0 Retd
(2) Vijay KANNAN (IND) bye
Igor KARPOV (RUS) bt Bharath-Srinivasan PARTHASARATHY (IND) 62 62
(3) Mithun MURALI (IND) bye
Kamala KANNAN (IND) bt (12) Francesco GARZELLI (ITA) 76(7) 61
(4) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bye
Abhishek S.V. (IND) bt (11) Himananshu MALI (IND) 64 64
(5) Peter AARTS (USA) bye
(14) I-Ta CHEN (TPE) bt Muddappa APPANERVANDA (IND) 61 26 63
(6) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bye
(9) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL) bt Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 64 67(6) 63
(7) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) bye
(13) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) bt Chanakya BHARGAVA (IND) 61 62
(8) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) bye
(10) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Viju GEORGE JR (USA) 76(3) 46 64

So now last week of Indian futures leg ... Yuki is playing this week.


This week 3 Indians qualified for maindraw ... At last Akash is in maindraw ... But Akash qualified for maindraw and facing last week's finalist in first round ... Yuki can face Rupesh in quarters ... Karan is in bottom draw with Vishnu, they can face eachother in quarters ... But before that Karan need to overcome Nathan in second round.

Tennis News
At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

Doubles Final
(1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (2) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 62 16 10-6

Another challenger doubles title for Rohan, this time with Ken Skupski ... Good they pulled this match against 2nd seed British pair in super tie-break ... Don't know about his next week schedule but he is playing with Aisam at Grand Prix Hassan II ATP tournament, Casablanca, Morocco from 5th April.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Final
Karan RASTOGI (IND,933) bt (Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA,1445) 46 64 64

Romain was attacking on Karan's serve from the start ... Karan was struggling to hold his serve and after creating numerous chances Romain managed to break Karan's serve in 7th game ... And that break was enough to won first set ... In second set also Karan lost his serve in first game but in 6th game Romain played loose game to gave break back and Karan take advantage of it ... In this set Karan played more free flowing game and was attacking on the net ... He kept pressure on Romain serve's and managed to break him in 10th game to make it 1 set-all ... In third set also Romain broke Karan's serve in 1st game but again Karan broke him in the next ... Both players were playing quality tennis and powerful serving in this set ... After holding his serve on luv in 9th game Karan broke Romain's serve on luv in 10th game with down the line forehand winner to lift the title.

Happy for Karan ... He put lot of efforts and pain to come out of this career threatening shoulder injury and 4th futures title but this is his first title since return from long injury layoff ... Big moral boosting title win for him.

Football News

It's official now that Indian forward Sunil Chettri has signed up 4 years deal with Major League Soccer (MLS) club Kansas City Wizards in the USA ... Now Chettri is waiting for the P-1 Visa and the International Transfer Certificate, which will take next 4-5 days ... That's why he is going to miss the Kansas City Wizards opener versus DC United at home on Saturday but will be available for their second match.
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At I League 2009-10, India - Round XVIII

Salgaocar SC bt East Bengal 4-1

Goal Scored - Cajetan Fernandes (SSC) 10', Rouhollah Samieinia (SSC) 15', Ekene Ikenwa (SSC) 52' & 59' and Sanju Pradhan (EB) 27'

Another shocking performance by East Bengal to lose tamely to Salgaocar.
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Chirag United SC l Mahindra United 0-1

Goal Scored - Muritala Ali (MU) 56'

Mahindra scored important win to remain with leader Dempo.
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Sporting Clube de Goa vs Viva Kerala

Goal Scored - Agnelo Colaco (SCG) 71' and Sabeeth CS (VK) 15', Sirajudden (VK) 70'

Viva continued their winning run beating Sporting in away match.
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Dempo SC bt JCT Mills Football Club 2-1

Goal Scored - Ranty Martins (DSC) 22' & 83' and Baljit Sahni (JCT) 45+' P

Ranty Martins scored late winner for Dempo to helped them to remain top of the standing.
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Mohun Bagan l Lajong FC 1-4

Goal Scored - Surkumar Singh (MB) 38' and Seikhohao Tuboi (SL) 10', Okoye S (SL) 20', Niwano Gatpoh (SL) 90+', Anil Gurung (SL) 90+'

Lajong handed one of worst defeat to Mohun Bagan at home ... Last 2 goals they scored in injury time.
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Mumbai F.C dw Air India 0-0

Air men hold Mumbai FC to goalless draw.

Tennis News
At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada


[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) l Rik De Voest (RSA,301) 16 36

Another lost opportunity for Kash ... He is still searching for his first challenger singles title.
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At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

[SF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 63 67(4) 10-6

[F] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs (2) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR)

Good win by Rohan and Ken over experienced Austrian pair in super tie-break ... In the final they facing 2nd seed British pair.

Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[R1] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Ross Hutchins (GBR)/ Jordan Kerr (AUS)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs Stephen Huss (AUS)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA)

Our both pairs having tricky matches against regular pair on the tour.
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At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (WC) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) 76(1) 64

[SF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)

Good to see Rohan and Ken kept their winning momentum though match was closer than expected against American wildcard pair ... In semis they r facing experienced Austrian pair, who defeated Harsh and Treat in first round.
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At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[QF] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) l (ALT) Andrew Anderson (RSA)/ Goran Tosic (MNE) 26 61 8-10

Prakash and Slanar lost in doubles quarter-final in super tie-break.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Semi Finals
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 36 63 63
Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) 75 63

Doubles Final
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) vs MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND)

Karan continued his good run to reach final ... He scored 3rd win over seeded player in this futures ... So now he is in line of winning his first futures after long injury break ... In the final he is facing French qualifier Romain, who also having good week ... He defeated all higher ranked Indians to reach in the final.

Tennis News
At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) bt (Q) Amir Weintraub (ISR,524) 63 36 64

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) vs Rik De Voest (RSA,301)

Though Israeli 500+ ranked Israeli qualifier stretched Kash to 3 sets still win is a win ... :-) So Kash is in semis and facing South African Davis Cup player Rik De Voest.
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At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (WC) Oliver Golding (GBR)/ Neil Pauffley (GBR) 61 63
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) l Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 36 57

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs (WC) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA)

Bops and Skupski scored easy convincing win over local wildcard pair ... But Harsh and Treat lost against experienced Austrian pair in first round.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Quarter Finals
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 62 67(5) 63
(3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) 76(5) 3-1 Retd.
(7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) bt Ruben GONZALES (USA) 64 62
Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (6) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) 63 63

Doubles Semi Finals
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) bt MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 62 63
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 64 46 10-8

Terrific win by Karan in end very solid win over last week winner Nathan ... Ranjeet was in control when his opponent decided to retire from the match ... But after yesterday's performance was hoping Vivek's win ... May be tired after long match against top-seed ... In doubles only Malik and Ashutosh Singh reached in the final.

So first-time Karan wins back to back 3 matches after coming out of injury ... Go Karan.

Shooting News
At ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol, Sydney, Australia

50m Rifle Prone - Men
Gold Warren CPOTENT AUS (600 +103.7) 703.7
Silver Joydeep KARMAKAR IND (599+103.4) 702.4
Bronze Sergei MARTYNOV BLR (597+103.7) 700.7

10m Air Pistol - Men
Gold Jong Oh JIN KOR (583 + 99.4) 682.4
Silver Omkar SINGH IND (584+97.2) 681.2
Bronze Sergey CHERVYAKOVSKIY RUS (581+98.5) 679.5

10m Air Rifle - Men
Gold Yifei CAO CHN (596 +102.8) 698.8
Silver Sanjeev RAJPUT IND (594+103.9) 697.9
Bronze Mario KNOEGLER AUT (595+101.9) 696.9

Good performance by our shooters, who win 3 silvers in ongoing ISSF World Cup at Sydney ... Sanjeev Rajput, Omkar Singh and Joydeep Karmakar won silvers ... Gagan Narang finished on 4th and Raghunath on 7th position in 10m Air Rifle - Men ... Samsher Jung finished on 6th position in 10m Air Pistol - Men ... Shweta Chaudhry also finished on 6th position in 10m Air Pistol - Women.

Also Joydeep Karmarkar missed chance of equaling world record of perfect 600 pts by 1 point in the 50m rifle prone men's event qualification ... Gold medal winner Australian Warren Cpotent achieved that.

Football News

As per report Indian striker Sunil Chhetri is on verge of getting sign by Kansas City Wizards in MLS ... Sunil would be only the 3rd Indian player to play in foreign league after Mohamed Salim’s successful stint with Celtic in the pre-Independent India and Bhaichung Bhutia’s famous Bury FC years.
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AIFF is planning to field their own team in I-League from next season ... In an effort to improve India’s chances in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, they r planning to recruit a group of talented young players from different clubs and field them as its own team in the I-League for the next four years.
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At AFC Cup 2010,

Group B

Al Hilal (YEM) l Churchill Brothers (IND) 1-2

Goal Scored - Yaser Bashuai (AlH) 37' and Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 15', Felix Chimaokwu (CB) 56'

Churchill scored crucial away victory over Yemeni side to lead Group B ... Felix scored winner in early of second-half after first-half ended 1-all.
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Group D

East Bengal (IND) l Al Qadsia (KUW) 2-3

Goal Scored - Subhas Singh (EB) 24', Yusif Yakubu (EB) 68' and Bader Almotawaa (AlQ) 2' & 84', Jehad Al Hussein (AlQ) 20'

In this match East Bengal fought hard after down 0-2 in first 20 mins ... But Almotawaa scored winner in late of the match, so with this de3rd defeat East Bengal side is out of contention to reach knock-out stage.

Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[Q2] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND, 120) l (3) Illya Marchenko (UKR,85) 46 36

Somdev started well breaking Illya's serve in 3rd game ... But Illya came back strongly breaking Somi's serve in 6th and 8th games ... Then Somi broke Illya's serve when he was serving for the set in 9th game ... Again Illya broke Somi's serve in 10th game to win first set ... In second set also Somi started well breaking Illya's serve in 1st game but again Illya broke Somi's serve in 4nd and 6th games to take control of the match ... And then hold his serve to won second set and match.

Somi is struggling with his serve but still good fighting performance from him to match talented Illya Marchenko.
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At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) bt (3) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,182) 62 62

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) vs (Q) Amir Weintraub (ISR,524)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) bt Kyu-tae Im (KOR)/ Lester Cook (USA) 62 46 11-9

[QF] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) vs (ALT) Andrew Anderson (RSA)/ Goran Tosic (MNE)

Great start by Prakash ... Really happy to see such dominating win against seeded player ... In second round he is facing Israeli qualifier.

In doubles also they started with win though they stretched to super tie-break.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Second Round
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (1) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) 75 36 76(6)
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt (5) Rupesh ROY (IND) 61 67(3) 16
(3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Ashutosh SINGH (IND) 62 62
(Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bt (8) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 76(5) 64
(7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 61 61
Ruben GONZALES (USA) bt (4) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) 62 62
(6) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) 26 64 64
Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 46 76(6) 60

Doubles Quarter Finals
MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) bt AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) 46 62 10-8
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) bt HUANG (TPE)/ NELORD (IND) 63 76(4)

NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt (3) FRANSEN (NED)/ SHARAN (IND) 76(8) 57 10-8
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ ROY (IND) 76(2) 63

Our only 3 players r in quarters and our 2 seeded got upset from qualifiers ... One of them was Rupesh .. :@

But excellent upset win by Vivek over top-seed Argentine in tight 3 sets ... Karan again dominated 3rd set after losing first set and then produced comeback in the match winning 2nd in tie-break ... Ranjeet produced comfortable win over Ashutosh ... Our 3 pairs in doubles semis.
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At $15k China F2 Futures, Mengzi, Honghe

[QF] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) l He Feng (CHN)/ Feng Xue (CHN) 46 46

This week top-seed Purav and Sadik lost in quarters against local pair.
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At $25k Namangan ITF Womens Tournament, Uzbekistan

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,347) l (Q) Viktoria Yemialyanava (BLR,586) 36 36

Was hoping easy win for Poojashree but instead of winning she lost easily.

Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[Q1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,326) l (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,77) 16 36
[Q1] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND, 120) bt David Guez (FRA, 139) 76(3) 64

[Q2] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND, 120) vs (3) Illya Marchenko (UKR,85)

In first set Somdev had two breaks but Guez broke back and then in second set Somi was a break down but this time he fought back ... Still good to see Somi won match in straight sets ... Next he is facing Ukrainian Illya Marchenko.

In other match Yuki couldn't match power game of Istomin, who gave him bitter dose of professional tennis ... Istomin scored dominating win over Yuki, who didn't have a single break point on Denis's serve but faced 12 break points on his serve and managed to save 8.
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At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs (WC) Oliver Golding (GBR)/ Neil Pauffley (GBR)
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) 62 75
(5) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (Q) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) 76(5) 76(5)
(3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND) 63 61
Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt Stephan FRANSEN (NED) 75 46 64
(Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bt (Q) Vikram REDDY B (IND) 60 64
(8) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Yannick NELORD (IND) 64 61
(7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 64 63
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt (Q) Viju GEORGE JR (USA) 76(6) 63
(4) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) bt Divij SHARAN (IND) 61 62
(6) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) 63 64
(Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) bt (WC) Digvijay SINGH MEHTA (IND) 61 62
Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 63 26 60

So this week total our 9 players r in second round .. Karan upset 2nd seed Rohan Gajjar, like the way he won 3rd set after losing 2nd ... Rupesh needed 2 tie-breaks to overcome Russian qualifier.
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At $25k Namangan ITF Womens Tournament, Uzbekistan

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,347) vs (Q) Viktoria Yemialyanava (BLR,586)

Doubles
[R1] KHABIBULINA (UZB)/ VENKATESHA (IND) l (3) ANTONIYCHUK (UKR)/ LYKINA (RUS) 57 46
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At $15k China F2 Futures, Mengzi, Honghe

[R1] Purav RAJA (IND,935) l Yu CHANG (CHN,904) 16 36

Doubles
[R1] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) bt Jae-Sung AN (KOR)/ Sun-Yong KIM (KOR) 63 62

[QF] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) vs He Feng (CHN)/ Feng Xue (CHN)

Easy loss in singles but expected start in doubles.

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At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[Q1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,326) vs (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,77)
[Q1] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND,120) vs David Guez (FRA,139)

Yuki having tough match against Istomin, who is top-seed in qualifying .. Interesting to see how he perform against top-75 player ... Somi having tricky match, French David Guez won 8/9 futures last year and was future player of ITF in 2009.
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At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) vs (3) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,182)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) vs Kyu-tae Im (KOR)/ Lester Cook (USA)
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(1) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) bt (WC) Mandeep Singh GILL (IND) 61 61
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Almog MASHIACH (ISR) 75 76(2)
Ruben GONZALES (USA) bt Christopher RACZ (USA) 61 61
(WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 63 36 61

Doubles First Round
MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) bt (1) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) 67(3) 63 10-8
AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) bt (WC) TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND) 62 67(5) 10-6
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) bt FILENKOV (RUS)/ PAVLOV (RUS) 64 61
HUANG (TPE)/ NELORD (IND) bt GARZELLI (ITA)/ VILLAR (ARG) 64 63

NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt MANUJA (IND)/ REDDY B (IND) 62 75
(3) FRANSEN (NED)/ SHARAN (IND) bt MARQUIS (IND)/ MASHIACH (ISR) 46 75 10-5
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt (WC) PHOGAT (IND)/ SANGWAN (IND) 61 64
(2) GAJJAR (IND)/ ROY (IND) bt (WC) SOOD (IND) / SOOD (IND) 57 62 10-5

Vijay Sundar having excellent start, he scored upset win in singles and defeated top-seed pair with Mithun Murali in doubles first round ... Vivek also scored good win against Israeli but facing top-seed Argentine in second round.
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At $15k China F2 Futures, Thailand

[R1] Purav RAJA (IND,935) vs Yu CHANG (CHN,904)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) vs Jae-Sung AN (KOR)/ Sun-Yong KIM (KOR)

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At I League 2009-10, India - Round XVII

Viva Kerala dw Mahindra United 1-1

Goal Scored - Karma T (VK) 61' and Lamin Tamba (MU) 86'

Mahindra needed late equalizer to hold Viva ... So with that result Dempo regained top-spot after 17th round.
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Salgaocar SC l Chirag United SC 1-2

Goal Scored - Beevan D'Mello (SSC) 58' and Josimar da Silva Martins (CU) 15' P, Ashim Biswas (CU) 45'

Salgaocar couldn't stop Chirag.
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East Bengal l Air India FC 0-2

Goal Scored - Kailash Patil (AI) 31', ND Opara (AI) 77'

Air men upset East Bengal to scored their consecutive second win.
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Dempo SC bt Churchill Brothers 4-2

Goal Scored - Ranty Martins (DSC) 27' & 62', Climax Lawrence (DSC) 30', Joaquim Abranches (DSC) 73' and Chimaokwu Felix (CB) 37', Odafe Onyeka Okolie (CB) 74'

Dempo scored victory in local derby in very entertaining match.
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Mohun Bagan l Sporting Clube-de Goa 1-2

Goal Scored - Jose Ramirez Barreto (MB) 12' and Aadil Khan (SCG) 32', Elijah Junior (SCG) 56'

Mohun Bagan got upset by Sporting, this was Sporting first win in this edition of I League.
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Shillong Lajong FC bt Pune FC 1-0

Goal Scored - Seikhohao Tuboi (SL) 73'

Lajong scored victory but I m hoping Pune FC doesn't losing their momentum.
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JCT Mills Football Club bt Mumbai FC 1-0

Goal Scored - Emanuel Okoro (JCT) 55'

JCT scored needed victory against Mumbai FC.

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At $125K+H Sunrise ATP Challenger, Florida, USA

[F] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Martin Damm (CZE)/ Filip Polasek (SVK) 64 16 11-13

So Lee and Lukas failed to win their first title of 2010 season ... Though they lost in the final still they had good match practice before Miami Masters.

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At $125K+H Sunrise ATP Challenger, Florida, USA

[SF] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Bobby Reynolds (USA)/ Andre Sa (BRA) 62 64

[F] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Martin Damm (CZE)/ Filip Polasek (SVK)

Another comfortable win by Lee and Lukas to moved into the final.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(1) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) vs (WC) Mandeep Singh GILL (IND)
Almog MASHIACH (ISR) vs Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) vs (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND)
(5) Rupesh ROY (IND) vs (Q) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS)
(3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND)
Stephan FRANSEN (NED) vs Ashutosh SINGH (IND)
(Q) Vikram REDDY B (IND) vs (Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE)
(8) Vijayant MALIK (IND) vs Yannick NELORD (IND)
(7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) vs Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND)
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) vs (Q) Viju GEORGE JR (USA)
Christopher RACZ (USA) vs Ruben GONZALES (USA)
(4) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) vs Divij SHARAN (IND)
(6) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) vs (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS)
(Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) vs (WC) Digvijay SINGH MEHTA (IND)
Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) vs (WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)
(2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) vs Karan RASTOGI (IND)

Doubles First Round
(1) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) vs MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND)
AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) vs (WC) TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND)
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) vs FILENKOV (RUS)/ PAVLOV (RUS)
HUANG (TPE)/ NELORD (IND) vs GARZELLI (ITA)/ VILLAR (ARG)

MANUJA (IND)/ REDDY B (IND) vs NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)
(3) FRANSEN (NED)/ SHARAN (IND) vs MARQUIS (IND)/ MASHIACH (ISR)
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) vs (WC) PHOGAT (IND)/ SANGWAN (IND)
(2) GAJJAR (IND)/ ROY (IND) vs (WC) SOOD (IND) / SOOD (IND)

Final Qualifying Round
(1) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bt Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 63 76(5)
(2) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) bt Akash WAGH (IND) 46 62 63
(3) Mithun MURALI (IND) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 75 64
(4) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) bt Chris KWON (USA) 75 6-4
(9) Vikram REDDY B (IND) bt (5) Peter AARTS (USA) 67(2) 63 62
Viju GEORGE JR (USA) bt Nishank MISHRA (IND) 36 62 62
(7) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 61 46 62
(8) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt (12) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 63 62

Qualifying Second Round
(1) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bt GOURAV (IND) 63 62
Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) bt Nikunj SIWACH (IND) 75 63
(2) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) bt Manuel BEZUCHA (AUT) 61 62
Akash WAGH (IND) bt (13) Himananshu MALI (IND) 64 62
(3) Mithun MURALI (IND) bt Saurav SUKUL (IND) 63 61
Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt (14) Francesco GARZELLI (ITA) 61 63
(4) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) bt Lakshit SOOD (IND) 64 46 62
Chris KWON (USA) bt (15) I-Ta CHEN (TPE) 63 63
(5) Peter AARTS (USA) bt Kamala KANNAN (IND) 76(5) 64
(9) Vikram REDDY B (IND) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 76(4) 61
Nishank MISHRA (IND) bt (6) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 76(5) 57 64
Viju GEORGE JR (USA) bt (10) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) 26 64 64
(7) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 76(5) 63
Kunal ANAND (IND) bt (11) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL) 46 75 62
(8) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt Igor KARPOV (RUS) 63 62
(12) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Naveen SAAI (IND) 62 67(6) 76(5)

First Qualifying Round
(1) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bye
GOURAV (IND) bt Prashant SAWANT (IND) 63 63
Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) bt Arvind SINGH (IND) 62 61
Nikunj SIWACH (IND) bye
(2) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) bye
Manuel BEZUCHA (AUT) bt Markus KANELLOS (AUT) 61 61
Akash WAGH (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND) 76(2) 67(5) 64
(13) Himananshu MALI (IND) bye
(3) Mithun MURALI (IND) bye
Saurav SUKUL (IND) bt Philip RIHA (AUT) 61 3-1 Retd
Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt Shivraj SINGH (IND) 62 61
(14) Francesco GARZELLI (ITA) bye
(4) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) bye
Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt Shiva SANGWAN (IND) 64 57 60
Chris KWON (USA) bt Rutger CRAMER (NED) 61 60
(15) I-Ta CHEN (TPE) bye
(5) Peter AARTS (USA) bye
Kamala KANNAN (IND) bt Gurinder SINGH (IND) 36 63 64
Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) bt Muddappa APPANERVANDA (IND) 75 64
(9) Vikram REDDY B (IND) bye
(6) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bye
Nishank MISHRA (IND) bt Yogesh PHOGAT (IND) 60 63
Viju GEORGE JR (USA) bt Garry Singh AMOR (IND) 62 61
(10) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) bye
(7) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) bye
Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt Bharath-Srinivasan PARTHASARATHY (IND) 62 60
Kunal ANAND (IND) bt Pulok BHATTACHARYA (IND) 61 64
(11) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL) bye
(8) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bye
Igor KARPOV (RUS) bt Krishik DIVAKAR (IND) 61 61
Naveen SAAI (IND) bt Pulkit MISHRA (IND) 75 63
(12) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)

Good to see Vikram Reddy and Christopher repeated their last week performance to qualify for maindraw.

Very interesting first round match up between Rohan Gajjar and Karan Rastogi.

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At $125K+H Sunrise ATP Challenger, Florida, USA

[QF] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Michael Berrer (GER)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA) 62 64

[SF] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Bobby Reynolds (USA)/ Andre Sa (BRA)

Lee and Lukas scored another comfortable win against singles specialist ... Next facing American-Brazilian pair.
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At $10K India F1 Futures, Kolkata

Singles Final
(6) Rupesh ROY (IND) l (8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) 64 26 57

Tough loss for Rupesh ... Nathan was on court with proper gameplan against Rupesh, from start he kept Rupesh in long rallies ... Though in start Rupesh was winning many points but he was looking tired in late of first set ... And I feel that was turning point as from their Rupesh was always doing catching game ... Most of the games were going into duece with long rallies and Nathan take control slowly.

Rupesh game looks improved ... Nice backhand slice, powerful forehand, double handed backhand and decent court coverage ... He still need to work on his service, volleys and importantly fitness for long matches.

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At $10K India F1 Futures, Kolkata

Singles Semi Finals
(6) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 64
(8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (5) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) 62 63

Doubles Final
(4) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt (1) Divij SHARAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 63 62

Good to see Rupesh is dominating opponents in this future ... Tomorrow hoping first ITF futures title for him.

Good to see Vivek is coming back into mix after his career threatening injury, today he lifted title with Ashutosh with easy victory over top-seed.
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At $15K China F1 2010, Kaiyuan, Honghe

[SF] (1) Sadik KADIR (AUS)/ Purav RAJA (IND) bt Roman BORVANOV (MDA)/ Riccardo GHEDIN (ITA) 62 75

Doubles Final
(1) Sadik KADIR (AUS)/ Purav RAJA (IND) bt (2) Hsin-Han LEE (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) 46 63 11-9

Purav lifted China F1 futures title with Sadik beating 2nd seed Taipei pair, who stretched them to fullest.