Tennis News
At $1.049M St. Petersburg ATP Open 2008, Russia

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Max Miryni (BLR) bt (3) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)/ Mischa Zverev (GER) 63 64
[R1] Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Rogier Wassen (NED) l Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Marat Safin (RUS) 36 62 (9)11

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Max Miryni (BLR) vs Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Marat Safin (RUS)

Bops managed to solve Youzhny and Zverev's puzzle with help from Mad Max ... Lee and Lukas r still searching their first win against this pair.

They defeated 3rd seed in straight sets ... Bops and Max broke opponent's serve 3 times in 4chances and lost their serve once in 3 break-points ... Now in quarters they will face Russian pair who defeated Aisam and his partner.
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At € 891K Swiss Indoors ATP Tournament, Basel, Switzerland

[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Todd Perry (AUS) 26 63 10(6)

[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Christopher Kas (GER)/ Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)

Lee and Lukas needed to produce comeback to move into quarters, where they will face German pair.
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At $50K Saguenay Womens Challenger, Canada

[R2] Sunitha Rao (IND,212) vs Ana Timotic (SRB,437)

Doubles -
[R1] (4) Veronika Chvojkova (CZE)/ Sunitha Rao (IND) l Carmen Klaschka (GER)/ Sabine Klaschka (GER) 36 36

Sunitha's results r worrying in US hard court season.
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At $25K Nigerian Womens Tournament II, Lagos

[R2] CHAKRAVARTHI Rushmi (IND,530) l (6) GLUSHKO Julia (ISR,390) 16 64 36
[R2] (3) LAKHANI Isha (IND,333) bt KIRALY Palma (HUN,504) 62 64
[R2] BHAMBRI Ankita (IND,510) bt DE BEER Surina (RSA,533) 5-0 Retd

[QF] (3) LAKHANI Isha (IND,333) vs (7) HENDLER Tamaryn (BEL,455)
[QF] BHAMBRI Ankita (IND,510) vs (2) KUCOVA Zuzana (SVK,229)

Doubles -
[QF] (3) BHAMBRI Sanaa (IND)/ BHAMBRI Ankita (IND) bt MONTEIRO Nicole (NED)/ RILEY Alexandra (USA) 63 63

[SF] (3) BHAMBRI Sanaa (IND)/ BHAMBRI Ankita (IND) vs CHALOVA Elena (RUS)/ SAVINYKH Valeria (RUS)

So this week Isha joined Ankta in quarters ... In quarters Ankita facing same opponent wom she defeated in last week's semis.
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At $15K+H Nigerian F4, Lagos

[R2] SHARAN Divij (IND,805) bt (1) CHEKHOV Pavel (RUS,287) 63 36 63
[R2] PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR Vignesh (IND,1074) l (7) SANON Valentin (CIV,554) 26 26
[R2] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND,899) l (3) HAIDER-MAURER Andreas (AUT,365) 63 46 06

[QF] SHARAN Divij (IND,805) vs (WC) BABALOLA Abdul-Mumin (NGR,1480)

Doubles -
[QF] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR Vignesh (IND) l (1) CHEKHOV Pavel (RUS)/ KATLIAROV Pavel (BLR) 36 36

Terrific win by Divij over top-seed Russian ... Hopefully this win over top-300 help him to bring back his career on right direction ... I believe he has talent to be minimum top-400 on tour.