Tennis News
At $100K+H Aegean Tennis Cup 2009, Rhodes, Greece (Hard court)

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) bt Michail Elgin (RUS,138) 46 62 63

Terrific comeback quality win by Kash ... In third set Kash serve was broken in the first game but then he broke Elgin's serve twice to take 3-1 lead and then maintained that to scored top-150 win.

Prakash is strongly moving towards top-150 singles ranking ... Mostly he will face top-seed Dudi Sela in quarters.
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At $15k India F4, New Delhi

Singles Second Round
(1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA) bt (Q) Masato HATANAKA (JPN) 64 64
(PR) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (7) Divij SHARAN (IND) 76(8) 46 63
(Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (WC) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 64 75
(6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Alexandre FOLIE (BEL) 46 62 63
(Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) bt Jiri KRKOSKA (CZE) 63 61
Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (4) Goran TOSIC (MNE) 63 64
(Q) Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt (5) Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) 63 62
(SE) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Vishal PUNNA (IND) 62 62

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Alexei Filenkov (RUS)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) 62 62
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) 62 64

Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Vishal Punna (IND) bt Adam El Mihdawy (USA)/ Rohan Gide (IND) 62 62
(2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE)/ Navdeep Singh (IND) bt Huai-En Chang (TPE)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) 63 76(2)

Yuki made me eat my words with his performance ... Very happy for Vivek's win though over Divij ... Ranjeet produced solid upset win beating 4th seed Tosic.

This week 5 Indians r in quarters and we r in chance of all Indian semi-finals ... Is this due to training stint these players recieved at Nick Bollettieri academy? ... If answer is yes then AITA should organise more these quality training stint for our upcoming players.
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At $25K Namangan ITF Tournament, Uzbekistan

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,534) bt (Q) Svetlana Smirnova (RUS,947) 63 61

[R2] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,534) vs (WC) Alisa Ogorodova (UZB,937)

Good to see Poojashree taking complete advantage of weak draw to continue with her good run in Uzbekistan for last few weeks.