Tennis News -
At $600K Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, USA (Tier II)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) l Eva Hrdinova (CZE)/ Vladimira Uhlirova (CZE) 36 46

As expected disappointing end for Sania in doubles also.
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At $525K Indianapolis Tennis Championships,

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mmahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (WC) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Frederic Niemeyer (CAN) 46 63 (10)12

In a showdown like a medal play-off match at next month's Olympics, Canadians pair saved one match point to defeat Indian Express in Indianapolis in super-tiebreak.

Nestor and Niemeyer held triple match point at 9-6 in the Super Tie-break, but Nestor double faulted TWICE and then Mahesh had an ace to leveled the score at 9-all and then took the 10-9 lead ... But Canadians responded by winning the next three points.
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At $75K Aptos Challenger, CA, USA

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,204) bt (1) Amer Delic (USA,144) 64 46 63
[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,204) vs (WC) Phillip Simmonds (USA,667)

Doubles -
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Lester Cook (USA) bt Roman Borvanov (USA)/ Artem Sitak (RUS) 63 61
[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Lester Cook (USA) vs Noam Okun (ISR)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR)

Yesterday match was stopped at 1 set all due to darkness, but today Prakash came out firing all cylinders to take 5-0 lead ... Then Amer managed to win next 3 games but Kash finished match in next game.

Good easy victory in doubles for Kash and Cook ... Now facing Israeli pair in quarter.
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At €30K+H Manchester Challenger, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Gouichi Motomura (JPN) bt Massimo Dell'Acqua (ITA)/ Enricc Iannuzzi (ITA) 61 64

[QF] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs Pavel Snobel (CZE)/ Jan Vacek (CZE)
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Gouichi Motomura (JPN) vs (1) Adam Feeney (AUS)/ Robert Smeets (AUS)

Winning start in doubles for Purav and Motomura but now facing top-seed Australian pair in quarter.
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At $10k Romania F12 Futures , Lasi (Clay)

[R1] LIBERHAN Tushar (IND,872) l LAZAR Alexandru-Raul (ROU,859) 26 75 36
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At $ 15k Great Britain F10 , Frinton on Sea (Grass)

[QF] (4) SHARAN Divij (IND)/ SADECKY Alexander (SUI) l (WC) BREWER David (GBR)/ CAMPBELL Luke (GBR) 46 46