Tennis News
At $50K Dallas Challenger, Texas, USA

[R2] Prakah Amritraj (IND,204) bt (6) Ricardo Mello (BRA,176) 75 63
[R2] (7) Rajeev Ram (USA,220) bt (Q) Luis Manuel Flores (MEX,598) 75 64

[QF] (7) Rajeev Ram (USA,220) vs Michael Russell (USA,277)
[QF] Prakah Amritraj (IND,204) vs Scoville Jenkins (USA,207)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt (Q) Raian Luchici (ROU)/ Justin O'Neal (USA) 62 63
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Brendan Evans (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA) 67(4) 36

[QF] (1) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Jesse Levine (USA)/ Peter Polansky (CAN)
[QF] (4) Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs Brendan Evans (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA)

Prakash produced excellent comeback after down 0-3 in the first set, then he dominated Mello to moved into quarter-finals.

After this terrific win Kash is facing last week's finalist Scoville Jenkins in the quarters ... In doubles also top-seed pair having good start ... But pair of Harsh and Purav lost in straight sets.
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At Group I Asia/Oceania Zone, Perth, Australia

Pool A
India l Indonesia 0-3

[M1] Sanaa Bhambri (IND) l Lavinia Tatanta (INA) 62 36 16
[M2] Ankita Bhambri (IND) l Sandy Gumulya (INA) 06 46
[M3] Ankita Bhambri (IND)/ Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) l Ayu Fani Damayanti (INA)/ Sandy Gumulya (INA) 67(6) 36

Another expected result ... But Sanaa played good match against Lavinia Tatanta to take first set but couldn't finish the match after this good start ... This time we tried different doubles combination of Rushmi and Ankita.

So with this win Indonesia and New Zealand, who upset top seed Uzbekistan, r in semis from Pool A ... Australia guranteed their place in semis from Pool B ... Mostly winer between Thailand and Korea will join them in the semis ... So we r having tough task to avoid relegation.
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At $15K+H Ivory Coast F1 futures, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

[QF] BONDARENKO Vladislav (UKR)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) bt FRANSEN Stephan (NED)/ GOVAERTS Bart (BEL) 16 64 10(8)

[SF] BONDARENKO Vladislav (UKR)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) vs BEGEMANN Andre (GER)/ TAVARES Leonardo (POR)

Divij is in doubles semis with his Ukranian partner.
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At $10K Egypt F2 Futures, Cairo (Clay)

[R1] (Q) REDDY B. Vikram (IND,1389) l RUSEVSKI Predrag (MKD,850) 46 26
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At $25K Rancho Mirage Tournament, CA, USA

[R1] (5) RAO Sunitha (IND,196) l (Q) PIOPPO Elena (ITA,379) 06 46

Sunitha's woeful result continue ... This time she lost against below 350 ranked Italian qualifier.
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Hockey News
At the four-nation Punjab Gold Cup Hockey Tournament, India

India dw Holland 2-2

Goal Scored - Shivender Singh (IND) 38', Prabhjot Singh (IND) 55' and Jeroen Hertzberger (NED) 32', Geert-van Derikx (NED) 52' PC

Another goalkeeper Baljit Singh's show ... How many more times he need to do rescue act only god knows ... Yesterday, Vikram Pillay played exceptional match .. He was busy providing passes to our forwardline and did some superb saves at goal-line.