Tennis News
At $50K Knoxville Challenger, TN, USA

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,210) l (WC) John-Patrick Smith (AUS,1148) 64 46 36

So another lost opportunity for Kash, who lost against college top-10 player JP Smith ... JP Smith was runner-up to Somdev in the 2008 NCAA tournament in May.

Prakash Amritraj - "I wasn't terribly happy with my performance but I give him credit. It's good for him to come out in a pro event and get a win."
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At $50K Kolkata Womens Challenger, India

Singles First Round
(1) Melanie South (GBR) bt Jing-Jing Lu (CHN) 75 63
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) bt Julia Parasyuk (RUS) 64 62
Elora Dabija (ROU) bt Angelika Roesch (GER) 67(5) 62 62
Leonie Mekel (NED) bt (6) Liana-Gabriela Ungur (ROU) 63 Retd.
(4) Agnes Szatmari (ROU) bt (WC) Shivika Burman (IND) 61 61
Sophie Ferguson (AUS) bt Vivian Segnini (BRA) 64 75
Julia Glushko (ISR) bt (Q) Silvia Disderi (ITA) 62 63
(7) Ksenia Palkina (KGZ) bt (WC) Shikha Uberoi (IND) 62 63
(8) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE) bt Ankita Bhambri (IND) 62 62
Suchanun Viratprasert (THA) bt (WC) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) 64 61
Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) bt I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE) 61 62
(Q) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) bt (3) Chin-Wei Chan (TPE) 61 62
(5) Sunitha Rao (IND) bt Alexis Prousis (USA) 60 62
(Q) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) bt (Q) Florence Haring (FRA) 75 64
(WC) Sanaa Bhambri (IND) bt Isha Lakhani (IND) 64 75
(2) Ayumi Morita (JPN) bt Laura Siegemund (GER) 61 62

Doubles First Round
(1) Jing-Jing Lu (CHN)/ Sheng-Nan Sun (CHN) bt Ksenia Palkina (KGZ)/ Julia Parasiyuk (RUS) 62 63
Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) bt Julia Glushko (ISR)/ Florence Haring (FRA) 64 62
(4) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE)/ I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE) bt (Q) Prerana-Mythri Appineni (IND)/ Patrycja Sanduska (POL) 64 60
Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Alexis Prousis (USA) bt (Q) Iuliia Kiriienko (UKR)/ Inna Kuzmenko (RUS) 63 76(7)
Ankita Bhambri (IND)/ Sanaa Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Treta Bhattacharya (IND)/ Shalini Sahoo (IND) 62 62
(3) Laura Siegemund (GER)/ Agnes Szatmari (ROU) bt (wc) Parul Goswami (IND)/ Parija Maloo (IND) 60 61
Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Isha Lakhani (IND) bt Leonie Mekel(NED)/ Varatchay Wongteanchai (THA) 64 26 10(6)
(2) Chin-Wei Chan (TPE)/ Yi Chen (TPE) bt (WC) Shivika Burman (IND)/ Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (IND/THA) 64 60

Only Sanaa managed to upset senior Isha ... Sunitha having promising start.
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At $15K India F8 Futures, Mumbai

Singles First Round
(1) Alexander Satschko (GER) bt Navdeep Singh (IND) 62 61
(Q) Mario Eckardt (GER) bt Rifat Biktyakov (UZB) 75 64
Purav Raja (IND) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) 63 61
(7) Daniel Lustig (CZE) bt Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) 62 64
Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt (4) Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 67(4) 63 62
(LL) Pirmin Haenle (GER) bt (WC) Akash Wagh (IND) 63 62
Vaja Uzakov (UZB) bt Perakiat Siruluethaiwatana (THA) 63 75
(5) Marc-Andre Stratling (GER) bt (WC) Ronak Manuja (IND) 62 61
(8) Syrym Abdukhalikov (KAZ) bt (Q) Mithun Murali (IND) 61 62
Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (Q) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND) 67(4) 62 61
(Q) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) bt (WC) Rohan Gide (IND) 63 76(1)
(3) David Savic (SRB) bt (Q) Aditya Madkekar (IND) 61 63
(6) Divij Sharan (IND) bt (Q) Vishal Punna (IND) 63 36 76(3)
(Q) David Sodek (CZE) bt Rohan Gajjar (IND) 76(7) 75
(Q) Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) bt Maniel Bains (GBR) 64 60
(2) Nathan Thompson (USA) bt (WC) Abhijeet Tiwari (IND) 62 62

Doubles First Round 
(1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Mario Eckardt (GER)/ Pirmin Haenle (GER) 62 62
Daniel Lustig (CZE)/ David Sodek (CZE) bt (WC) Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Akash Wagh (IND) 62 63
(3) Alexander Satschko (GER)/ Marc-Andre Stratling (GER) bt Maniel Bains (GBR)/ Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 75 64
Mithun Murali (IND)/ Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) bt I-Ta Chen (TPE)/ Perakiat Siruluethaiwatana (THA) 64 62
(WC) Kamala Kannan (IND)/ Vishal Punna (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 67(6) 75 10(6)
(4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Rohan Gide (IND)/ Nikunj Siwach (IND) 61 63
(WC) Arjun Goutham (IND)/ Aditya Madkekar (IND) bt Rifat Biktyakov (UZB)/ Vaja Uzakov (UZB) 76(4) 76(0)
(2) David Savic (SRB)/ Nathan Thompson (USA) bt Syrym Abdukhalikov (KAZ)/ Igor Panin (RUS) 64 64

Good win by Ranjeet but Sunil's awful form continued in singles ... Akash lost chance of utilising opportunity of facing lucky-loser in the first round ... Divij and Punna had terrific match in-between ... Otherwise expected results.