Tennis News
At € 1.995M Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2009, Spain

[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 67(5) 67(3)
[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Robin Soderling (SWE) 46 61 10(8)

[QF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Lucas Arnold Ker (ARG)/ Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)

Mahesh and Mark scored comeback victory against Swedish pair in super tie-break ... But lee and Lukas lost both sets in tie-breaks for early exit.
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At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, FL, USA

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,185) bt (4) Vincent Spadea (USA,108) 64 61

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,185) vs John Isner (USA,123)

Doubles
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Joshua Goodall (GBR) l (1) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 36 16

Very good easy victory by Prakash against very experienced Spadea ... Before this they faced eachother in 2008 at Calabasas Challenger and that time Spadea won final set in tie-break ... But this time Prakash handled him cooly to scored big victory against top-100 caliber player, who was former top-20 player ... In quarters Kash is facing towering Isner.
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At $15k India F3, New Delhi

Singles Second Round
(1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA) bt Jiri KRKOSKA (CZE) 57 76(5) Ret.
Purav RAJA (IND) l Adam EL MIHDAWY (USA) 26 46
(3) Goran TOSIC (MNE) bt Alexandre FOLIE (BEL) 63 75
(5) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (PR) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 63 64
(8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 46 63 62
(WC) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (4) Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) 62 62
(7) Sean THORNLEY (GBR) bt (Q) Vijay KANNAN (IND) 63 36 64
(Q) Masato HATANAKA (JPN) bt (Q) Takuto NIKI (JPN) 76(6) 36 75

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Vignesh Perna (IND) 62 76(4)
(4) Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA) bt Rohan Gide (IND)/ Saar Steele (ISR) 75 63

(WC) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 67(4) 76(4) 10(7)
(2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE)/ Goran Tosic (MNE) bt (WC) Mithun Murali (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 62 46 10(5)

Very impressive performance by Yuki, who defeated 4th seed Japanese opponent with ease losing only 4 games.