Tennis News
At $75K Nashville Challenger, USA

Doubles -
[Q2] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van der Merwe (RSA) 76(3) 46 10(2)

[R1] (Q) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs (WC) Colt Gaston (USA)/ Scoville Jenjins (USA)

Good win by Harsh and Ashutosh against Somi and his South African partner ... Now they should utilise opportunity of facing wild-card pair to move deep into this tournament.
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At $35K Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[R1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND,) vs James Ward (GBR,)

Doubles -
[R1] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Stephen Amritraj (IND) vs Luigi D'Agord (ITA)/ Nima Roshan (USA)

Kash having good chance to garner important ranking points in quest of breaking into top-200 of singles and doubles.
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At $10k Malaysia F1, Kuala Lumpur

[Q1] PUNNA Vishal (IND,UNR) bt DONG Qiu Shi (CHN,UNR) 60 60
[Q2] PUNNA Vishal (IND,UNR) bt(3) MAHER Jarryd (AUS,1158) 46 64 64
[Q3] PUNNA Vishal (IND,UNR) bt MA Ya-Nan (CHN,UNR) 64 62

[R1] (Q) PUNNA Vishal (IND,UNR) l KARATCHENIA Andrei (BLR,597) 64 36 26

Doubles -
[R1] (WC) PUNNA Vishal (IND)/ ZAINAL Ashaari (MAS) l (1) STATHAM Jose (NZL)/ YU Xin-Yuan (CHN) 46 26

Vishal is coming back from more than a year injury break ... Creditable performance from Vishal to qualify for maindraw and produced decent fight against top-600 player.