Tennis News -
At $50K New Delhi Challenger-II, India (Hard)

Singles First Round -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,78) bt Nick Lindahl (AUS,259) 36 63 60
Peng Sun (CHN,457) bt (Q) Olivier Charroin (FRA,540) 63 62
(Q) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,984) bt (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1210) 61 60
(5) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,149) bt Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND,436) 63 46 75

(3) Kristian Pless (DEN,124) bt (WC) Harsh Mankad (IND,666) 64 62
Guillermo Alcaide (ESP,421) bt Andrew Coelho (AUS,299) 57 64 64
Thomas Oger (FRA,283) bt Takao Suzuki (JPN,305) 63 3-0 Retd. due to back injury
Samuel Groth (AUS,310) bt (6) Brendan Evans (USA,178) 46 76(8) 64

(8) Ricardo Mello (BRA,213) bt Ilia Marchenko (UKR,341) 62 64
Colin Ebelthite (AUS,222) bt (WC) Mustafa Ghouse (IND,1352) 63 64
(WC) Ashutosh Singh (IND,567) bt Travis Rettenmaier (USA,360) 64 75
(4) Go Soeda (JPN,132) bt (LL) Tushar Liberhan (IND,791) 61 60

(7) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,211) bt Toshihide Matsui (JPN,408) 62 64
Adam Feeney (AUS,270) bt Prakash Amritraj (IND,252) 64 75
Rajeev Ram (USA,282) bt (Q) Purav Raja (IND,920) 61 63
(2) Gilles Muller (LUX,126) bt (Q) Rohan Gide (IND,1431) 76(2) 62

Doubles First Round -
(1) Brendan Evans (USA)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) Bye
Go Soeda (JPN)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) bt Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 64 62

(4) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) Bye
Lars Elvström (DEN)/ Kristian Pless (DEN) bt Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA) W/O (due to right arm injury to Rettenmaier)

Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Rohan Gide (IND)/ Yannick Nelord (IND) 62 60
(3) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Thomas Oger (FRA) Bye

Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Kamala Kannan (IND) bt Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 64 76(3)
(2) Adam Feeney (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) Bye

[QF] (4) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt Lars Elvström (DEN)/ Kristian Pless (DEN) 62 61

Another excellent upset win by Ashutosh over Rettenmaier ... Also surprising but very dominating win by Vishnu over Yuki ... Vishnu gave him hard lesson in their first round match.

But again very disappointing performance from Kash ... Match against Feeney was winnable match for him.

Sunil had close match against Aisam but again he failed to turn his fighting performance into winning performance ... He lost third set 5-7 ... In end another close loss for him, he need to win all these matches to graduate into next level.

In doubles also due to Rettenmaier's injury Kash challenge ended in first round ... Other hand Harsh and Ashutosh having expected winning start, now they will face 3rd seed French pair in doubles quarter-finals.
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At $15K Kuwait F1, Meshref

[R1] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,834) l GODAMANNE Harshana (SRI,1020) 46 36
[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND,828) vs (8) NORBY Rasmus (DEN,638)

Doubles -
[R1] (2) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ SKUPSKI Ken (GBR) bt (WC) ALI Ahmed (KUW)/ QASSIM Abdullah (KUW) 60 61
[R1] (4) FILENKOV Alexei (RUS)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) l MUHAMMAD Ahmad Rabeea (KUW)/ SIDDIQ Mohammad-Khalid (PAK) 63 16 (8)10

Disappointing start for Rohan in singles.
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At $10K Thailand F2, Khonkan

[Q1] (1) (WC) GOSWAMI Parul (IND,855) bt SAOVANA Kamonthip (THA,UNR) 64 63
[Q1] (2) SOLANKI Kumari-Sweta (IND,855) l LIM Sae-Mi (KOR,UNR) 16 46
[Q1] NANDA KUMAR Asha (IND,UNR) l (3) SAIDKHODJAEVA Dilyara (UZB,902) 0-5 Retd.
[Q1] KAKHANDKI GADIGEPPA Shweta (IND,UNR) l BINNIE Renee (AUS,UNR) 16 06

[Q2] (1) (WC) GOSWAMI Parul (IND,855) l KIM Jung-Eun (KOR,UNR) 26 26

Doubles -
[Q1] KAKHANDKI GADIGEPPA Shweta (IND)/ SOLANKI Kumari-Sweta (IND) bt LO Chiao-Fang (TPE)/ YUAN Yue (CHN) 06 64 13(11)

[R1] (1) BHAMBRI Ankita (IND,508) vs (WC) SAENYAUKHOT Natchanok (THA,UNR)
[R1] (3) BHAMBRI Sanaa (IND,591) vs (Q) KAEWMA Jaruwadee (THA,UNR)
[R1] (8) APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND,726) vs DUAN Ying-Ying (CHN,827)

Doubles -
[R1] GOSWAMI Parul (IND)/ WELFORD Tiffany (AUS) vs CHEN Hui (CHN)/ DUAN Ying-Ying (CHN)
[R1] APPINENI Prerana-Mythri (IND)/ KAWATOKO Moe (JPN) vs (Q) KAEWMA Jaruwadee (THA)/ SRITAWAN Khanita (THA)
[R1] (Q) KAKHANDKI GADIGEPPA Shweta (IND)/ SOLANKI Kumari-Sweta (IND) vs KIM Sun-Jung (KOR)/ LEE Cho-Won (KOR)
[R1] (2) BHAMBRI Sanaa (IND)/ BHAMBRI Ankita (IND) vs ARAI Maki (JPN)/ YAMAMOTO Ai (JPN)

Our 4 players were in the qualifying but 3 lost in first round and top-seed Parul lost in final qualifying ... Mostly Parul will get chance of getting into maindraw as luckyloser.