Tennis News
At $600K SAP Open, San Jose, California , USA

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) 62 64

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)

Wow, that was really good solid win by Rohan and Jarkko against tough team of Rajeev and Bobby ... So in the second round they r facing WR #1 pair Bryans.
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At $220K PTT Pattaya Women's Open, Thailand

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,126) vs (Q) Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS,196)

Doubles
[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mara Santangelo (ITA) bt Elena Bovina (RUS)/ Ksenis Pervak (RUS) 64 63

3rd seed Cibulkova was out due to illness and Russian qualifier Vitalia Diatchenko defeated Japanese lucky-loser Ryoko Fuda to face Sania in the second round.

Also Sania's doubles partner Mara Santangelo retired from her singles match so wasn't sure about her doubles participation ... But Mara joined Sania on the court for quarter-final match and they won easily in 1 hr and 9 mins to move into semis.
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Harsh Mankad is decided to partner Brian Battistone for next few weeks mostly on European challengers ... Brian having interesting style of serve, volleyball jump-serve ... He also play with a special racket with two handles ... :-)
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At $15K+H Ivory Coast F2, Abidjan

[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND,698) bt (WC) BINI Y (CIV,UNR) 62 60

[R2] SHARAN Divij (IND,698) vs (5) SEMJAN, Marek (SVK,377)

Doubles
[R1] BONDARENKO Vladislav (UKR)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) bt (WC) ANIBIE Sylvain (CIV)/ GOVEN Mathieu (FRA) 26 62 10(0)

[QF] BONDARENKO Vladislav (UKR)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) vs DUCLOS Pierre-Ludovic (CAN)/ HAIDER-MAURER Andreas (AUT)

Expected start with easy victory .. But need super tie-break to win their first round doubles ... Now tough next rounds in singles and doubles ... Go Divij.
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At $75K Midland Tournament, MI, USA

[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND,216) l (8) Vania King (USA,118) 16 64 64

Doubles
[R1] Sunitha Rao (IND)/ Story Tweedie-Yates (USA) l Kai-Chen Chang (TPE)/ Stephanie Foretz (FRA) 26 75 (7)10

Again Sunitha lost in the first round but this time improved perormance by her against higher ranked opponents in singles and doubles.