Tennis News
At Tennis Masters Cup 2008 (Doubles), Shanghai, China

On 13th November, 2008
RED GROUP

Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l Luis Horna (PER)/ Pablo Cuevas 76(3) 67(4) (5)10
Jeff Coetzee (RSA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) bt Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 62 26 (10)12

With this loss season 2008 is over for our both pair ... :-(
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At $50K Champaign Challenger, Illinois, USA

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,214) bt (Q) Izak Van der Merwe (RSA,280) 67(4) 64 76(4)

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,214) vs Carsten Ball (AUS,202)

Doubles -
[R1] (LL) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) l Brian Battistone (USA)/ Dann Battistone (USA) 76(6) 67(6) 10(6)
[R1] Stephen Amritraj (IND)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) l (WC) Alex Kuznetsov (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA) 57 16
[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van der Merwe (RSA) bt (ALT) GD Jones (NZL) / Connor Roth (USA) 61 36 10(8)

Harsh and Ashutosh entered as luckyloser but lost in closely fought against Battistone bros ... Also as per schedule Somi and Izak match is against GD Jones & Connor Roth, whom Harsh and Ashutosh defeated in first qualifying round ... So that means Kash is also out of doubles.

Good to see Kash won this tight match, so next match against similar ranked opponent against him Kash is having good record.
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At $25K NECC- ITF Women's Tennis Championships, Pune, India

Quarter-Finals -
(1) Melanie SOUTH (GBR) bt (Q) Shalini SAHOO (IND) 62 62
(4) Ksenia PALKINA (KGZ) bt (6) Kai-Chen CHANG (TPE) 63 64
(Q) Bojana JOVANOVSKI (SRB) bt I-Hsuan HWANG (TPE) 62 62
(8) Jing-Jing LU (CHN) bt (2) Ye-Ra LEE (KOR) 5-2 Retd.

Doubles Quarter-Finals -
DABIJA (ROU)/ JOVANOVSKI (SRB) bt KHAN (GBR)/ WINDLEY (GBR) 64 60
PARASYUK (RUS)/ PERKOVIC (GER) bt (WC) MALOO (IND)/ VENKATESHA (IND) 64 60
CURTIS (GBR)/ WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) bt (3) LU (CHN)/ WONGTEANCHAI (THA) 76(6) 46 11(9)
(2) CHANG (TPE)/ HWANG (TPE) bt BHAMBRI (IND)/ CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) 64 64

Semi-Finals -
DABIJA (ROU)/ JOVANOVSKI (SRB) bt PARASYUK (RUS)/ PERKOVIC (GER) 36 61 10(4)
(2) CHANG (TPE)/ HWANG (TPE) bt CURTIS (GBR)/ WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) 64 62

Shalini Sahoo's fine run ended against top-seed but very satisfactory performance from her.