Tennis News -
At $50K New Delhi Challenger III, India

[R1] (2) (wc) Prakash Amritraj (IND,222) bt Jae-Sung An (KOR,398) 76(9) 64
[R2] (2) (wc) Prakash Amritraj (IND,222) vs Gouichi Motomura (JPN,352)

Doubles -
[R1] SINGH Ashutosh (IND)/ SIPAEYA Sunil Kumar (IND) bt AN Jae Sung (KOR)/ ITO Tatsuma (JPN) 64 62
[R1] (WC) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND)/ NEDUNCHERHIYAN Jeevan (IND) bt GHAREEB Mohammed (KUW)/ MOTOMURA Gouichi (JPN) 76(4) 46 12(10)
[R1] (WC) PRASHANTH Vijay Sundar (IND)/ VIRALI MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND) l (2) SAVIC David (SRB)/ VALTZER Dekel (ISR) 67(7) 26
[R1] (4) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) bt GHEDIN Riccardo (ITA)/ MATSUI Toshihide (JPN) 64 64

[QF] SINGH Ashutosh (IND)/ SIPAEYA Sunil Kumar (IND) vs CAKL Tomas (CZE)/ KINDLMANN Dieter (GER)
[QF] (4) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ RAJA Purav (IND) vs (WC) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND)/ NEDUNCHERHIYAN Jeevan (IND)

Surprisingly tougher match for Kash than expected ... In second round Kash is playing against 34 yrs old seasoned Japanese player Motomura ... Kash should win this match without much hiccups.

But I m again stunned by excellent fighting win by teenagers Yuki and Jeevan against experianced players Motomura and Ghareeb in super tie-break ... Also good start by Ashutosh/ Sunil and Rohan/Purav in doubles.
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At the 18th World Junior Tennis Finals, TK Prostejov, Czech Republic (Red Clay)

Group B -
India bt Egypt 3-0

Digvijaysingh Mehta (IND) bt Ahmed Abdel Latif (EGY) 62 63
Ronit Bisht (IND) bt Karim Hossam (EGY) 63 61
Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Ronit Bisht (IND) bt Sherif Abo Habaja (EGY)/ Karim Hossam (EGY) 62 63

Terrific performance by Digvijay and Ronit ... Heartening to see dominating victory by our boys over Egyptian kids ... Congrats to Sunil, Ronit and Digvijay for another excellent result ... So its big step towards semi-final, but still match against Great Britain is important ... Great Britain is also undefeated like us, so match against them is like quarter-final ... Winner will reach semis.

Match report from ITF -
India maintained their 100% record at the tournament with a second victory today. Their opponents today, Egypt, could not contain the Indians in any of the three ties. Diavijay Singh put his team on track with a 62 63 win over Ahmed Abdel latif. India's number one, Rohit Bisht then defeated Egypt's in form number one Karim Hossam, 63 61. Bisht then combined with India's number three Ramkumar Ramanathan to defeat the Egyptian pair of Hossam and Sherif Abo Habaja 62 63 in the dead rubber doulbes match.
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At $10K Indonesian Futures, Jakarta

[R1] BURMAN Shivika (IND,981) l TAIRA Tomoko (JPN,UNR) 16 75 16
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Squash News -
At Junior Men's Squash World Championships 2008, Zurich, Switzerland (Team Event)

Pre-Quarter Finals -
(5) India bt (11) Australia 2-1

Vikram Malhotra bt Matthew Hopkin 9-7 9-6 9-6 (47m)
Aditya Jagtap l Jacob Alexander 3-9 6-9 9-7 4-9 (67m)
Ravi Dixit bt Joshua Larkin 9-2 9-1 9-0 (31m)

Quarter-Final
(5) India vs (4) France

Expected win by Vikram but very timely dominating win by Ravi Dixit to won tie for India ... Aditya Jagtap also fought hard in his loss ... So now we r facing 4th seed France in quarters ... Go boys.