Tennis News -
At € 2.27M Hamburg Masters, Germany (clay)

[SF] PAES Leander (IND)/ ROBREDO Tommy (ESP) l (2) NESTOR Daniel (CAN)/ ZIMONJIC Nenad (SRB) 36 63 (2)10

[QF] PAES Leander (IND)/ ROBREDO Tommy (ESP) bt (ALT) LJUBICIC Ivan (CRO)/ SODERLING Robin (SWE) 62 76(3)

Impressive performance by Lee and Tommy ... They lost in semis to eventual winner Nestor and Zimo.
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At $50K New Delhi Challenger-I, India (Hard)

Singles Final -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,90) bt (7) Brendan Evans (USA,198) 57 76(5) 63

Singles Semi-Finals -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,90) bt (4) Go Soeda (JPN,132) 63 61
(7) Brendan Evans (USA,198) bt (3) Kristian Pless (DEN,129) 10 Retd. ( sunstroke )

Singles Quarter-Finals -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,90) bt Colin Ebelthite (AUS,234) 61 64
(4) Go Soeda (JPN,132) bt (WC) Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW,413)75 75
(3) Kristian Pless (DEN,129) bt Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,255) 26 75 75
(7) Brendan Evans (USA,198) bt Samuel Groth (AUS,342) 76(5) 64

Doubles Final -
Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) bt Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) 26 76(5) 10(8)

Doubles Semi-Finals -
Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) bt Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) 64 64
Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt (WC) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) 36 76(6) 10(7)

Doubles Quarter-Finals Round -
Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) bt Ricardo Mello (BRA)/ Gilles Muller (LUX) 75 63
Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt Guillermo Alcaide (ESP)/ Alex Satschko (GER) 61 76(3)

Overall very disappointing outing for Indians in this first week of Delhi challenger.
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At $25K Raleigh Challenger, NC, USA (clay)

[QF] (2) ESPERON Soledad (ARG)/ UBEROI Neha (USA) l GAMBALE Mary (USA)/ INOUE Mami (USA) W/O
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At $10K Badalona Futures, Spain

[SF] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,609) l (4) FERNANDEZ-BRUGUES Eva (ESP,480) 36 36

[QF] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,609) bt PARASYUK Julia (RUS,799) 61 62
[R2] NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND,609) bt (Q) CARRERAS Amanda (GBR,783) 26 63 64

Doubles -
[SF] (3) NAGARAJ Sandhya (IND)/ PARASYUK Julia (RUS) l (1) DAVATO Benedetta (ITA)/ SABINO Lisa (ITA) 36 16

Good to see that Sandhya used weak draw in her favor to reached in singles semis.