Tennis News
At € 2.27M Madrid ATP Masters, Spain

[R2] (3) DLOUHY Lukas (CZE)/ PAES Leander (IND) l (WC) ANDUJAR Pablo (ESP)/ GRANOLLERS Marcel (ESP) 16 63 (7)10

[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Carlos Moya (ESP)/ Rafael Nadal (ESP) W/O (slight pain in Nadal's lower back)

Due to Nadal's minor injury Hesh and Mark received walkover to quarters.

Surprising loss against Spanish wild-card players ... In this amtch Lee and Lukas were struggled to hold their serves.

Performing better in Masters tournaments will help them to secure ticket to Beijing in year end tournament.
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At $50K Calabasas Challenger, USA

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,227) bt Ivan Miranda (PER,222) 64 63

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,227) vs (1) Vincent Spadea (USA,89)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) John Isner (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) l Brian Battistone (USA)/ Dann Battistone (USA) 46 46
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (WC) Scott Oudsema (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA) 75 63
[R1] (4) Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Daniel King-Turner (NZL) l (WC) Lester Cook (USA)/ Shane La Porte (USA) 06 36
[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Nathan Healeay (AUS) bt (3) Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA)/ Todd Widom (USA) 67(1) 63 10(6)

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Alex Kuznetsov (USA) vs (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Nathan Healeay (AUS)
[QF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs (WC) Lester Cook (USA)/ Shane La Porte (USA)

Prakash continued with his good performance in singles, now he is having good chance against aging top-seed & #89 Spadea.

Qualifier Somi and Healeay upset 3rd seed pair and now they will face Kash and his partner in quarters ... Harsh and Ashutosh also moved to quarters with win over wild-card pair, they will face another wild-card pair who upset Stephen and his partner in the first round.
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At $125K Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,347) l (1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,69) 63 57 06

Doubles -
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (1) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 67(4) 36

After winning first set that was surprising melt-down by Rohan from 5-5 second set ... But still creditable performance against top-70 player ... In doubles also Rohan challenge got over against top-seeds.

Now move to next week's the St. Petersburg Open.
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At $25K Nigerian Womens Tournament, Lagos

[R2] (3) Isha LAKHANI (IND,328) l Vivienne VIERIN (ITA,622) 36 61 36
[R2] Ankita BHAMBRI (IND,509) bt (6) Julia GLUSHKO (ISR,387) 75 61
[R2] Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,531) bt (Q) Valeria SAVINYKH (RUS,778) 64 36 61

[QF] Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,531) vs Palma KIRALY (HUN,501)
[QF] Ankita BHAMBRI (IND,509) vs Vivienne VIERIN (ITA,622)

Doubles -
[QF] (4) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt Valeria SAVINYKH (RUS)/ Vivienne VIERIN (ITA) 62 62
[QF] (3) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND)/ Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt Bojana JOVANOVSKI (SRB)/ Zuzana KUCOVA (SVK) 64 64

[SF] (4) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ Isha LAKHANI (IND) vs (2) Tamaryn HENDLER (BEL)/ Lisa SABINO (ITA)
[SF] (3) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND)/ Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) vs Surina DE BEER (RSA)/ Agnes SZATMARI (ROU)

17 yrs old Italian Vivienne upset Isha ... But Rushmi won her match against qualifier.

Ankita scored upset win against 6th seed & top-400 Israeli ... Nice to see her dominance in second set ... In doubles also our both pairs moved in to semis.
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At $15K+H Nigerian F3, Lagos

[R2] Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND,1065) l (1) Pavel CHEKHOV (RUS,287) 67(5) 46
[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,895) l (WC) Jonathan IGBINOVIA (NGR,UNR) 36 16
[R2] Divij SHARAN (IND,806) l (2) Boy WESTERHOF (NED,303) 67(5) 67(12)

Doubles -
[QF] (3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Divij SHARAN (IND) bt Daouda NDIAYE (SEN)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 61 63

[SF] (3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Divij SHARAN (IND) vs Komlavi LOGLO (TOG)/ Valentin SANON (CIV)

Our challenge got over in singles but Divij and Vignesh produced very fighting performances against top 2 seeds.
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At $10K Pakistan F1, Islamabad 

[R2] (2) SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (IND,503) l SIKORA Adrian (SVK,1019) 36 36
[R2] (LL) GIDE Rohan (IND,1340) l (5) LEE Hsin-Han (TPE,653) 36 26

Doubles -
[R1] MOHAZEBNIA Mohammed (IRI)/ NELORD Yannick (IND) l KHAN Jalil (PAK)/ KHAN Shahzad (PAK) 36 64 (9)11

Very disappointing stuff from Sunil, these days he is losing his match to any hanky-panky player.