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

Doubles -
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Stephen Amritraj (IND) l Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Nicolas Tourte (FRA) 36 67(2)
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Luka Gregorc (SLO)/ Fritz Wolmarans (RSA) 76(5) 76(4)

[QF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs (1) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA)

Good to see Harsh and Ashutosh pulled off tie-breaks tight sets victory ... But sad to see Amritraj brothers losing in the first round.
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At $50K Kolkata Womens Challenger, India

Singles Second Round
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) bt (1) Melanie South (GBR) 26 63 64
Elora Dabija (ROU) bt Leonie Mekel (NED) 26 64 64
Sophie Ferguson (AUS) bt (4) Agnes Szatmari (ROU) 76(5) 64
(7) Ksenia Palkina (KGZ) bt Julia Glushko (ISR) 75 75
(8) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE) bt Suchanun Viratprasert (THA) 60 62
(Q) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) bt Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) 63 63
(Q) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) bt (5) Sunitha Rao (IND) 62 61
(2) Ayumi Morita (JPN) bt (WC) Sanaa Bhambri (IND) 63 61

Doubles Quarter-Finals
(1) Jing-Jing Lu (CHN)/ Sheng-Nan Sun (CHN) bt Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) 46 75 10(5)
Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Alexis Prousis (USA) bt (4) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE)/ I-Hsuan Hwang (TPE) 36 76(4) 10(4)
(3) Laura Siegemund (GER)/ Agnes Szatmari (ROU) bt Ankita Bhambri (IND)/ Sanaa Bhambri (IND) 61 46 11(9)
(2) Chin-Wei Chan (TPE)/ Yi Chen (TPE) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Isha Lakhani (IND) 64 76(3)

Indian challenge got over in singles and doubles ... As per scoreline Sunitha received thrashing from British qualifier ... :-(

Sanaa couldn't produced much fight against 2nd seed Japanese in singles ... But Bhambri sisters had their chances in doubles against 3rd seed pair.
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At $15K India F8 Futures, Mumbai

Singles Second Round
(1) Alexander Satschko (GER) bt (Q) Mario Eckardt (GER) 60 64
(7) Daniel Lustig (CZE) bt Purav Raja (IND) 63 67(3) 64
(LL) Pirmin Haenle (GER) bt Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 46 63 76(4)
Vaja Uzakov (UZB) bt (5) Marc-Andre Stratling (GER) 63 67(0) 63
(8) Syrym Abdukhalikov (KAZ) bt Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 76(4) 64
(3) David Savic (SRB) bt (Q) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) 57 60 62
(Q) David Sodek (CZE) bt (6) Divij Sharan (IND) 76(7) 36 64
(2) Nathan Thompson (USA) bt (Q) Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) 61 61

Doubles Quarter-Finals 
(1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Daniel Lustig (CZE)/ David Sodek (CZE) 64 64
Mithun Murali (IND)/ Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) bt (3) Alexander Satschko (GER)/ Marc-Andre Stratling (GER) 57 60 10(4)
(4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Kamala Kannan (IND)/ Vishal Punna (IND) 63 62
(2) David Savic (SRB)/ Nathan Thompson (USA) bt (WC) Arjun Goutham (IND)/ Aditya Madkekar (IND) 64 61

And here also our all players lost in singles second round ... But as usual better performance in doubles as our 3 pairs in the semis.