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At $15k India F4, New Delhi

Singles First Round
(1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA) bt Ashutosh SINGH (IND) 63 75
(Q) Masato HATANAKA (JPN) bt (Q) Huai-En CHANG (TPE) 57 61 64
(PR) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (WC) Navdeep SINGH (IND) 64 62
(7) Divij SHARAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 63 61
(WC) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (3) Pirmin HAENLE (GER) 2-0 Retd.
(Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 75 61
Alexandre FOLIE (BEL) bt (WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND) 63 75
(6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Frederic DE FAYS (BEL) 62 64
Jiri KRKOSKA (CZE) bt (8) Sean THORNLEY (GBR) 76(4) 63
(Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) bt Adam EL MIHDAWY (USA)75 63
Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) 60 64)
(4) Goran TOSIC (MNE) bt (Q) Tushar LIBERHAN (IND) 63 61
(5) Hiroki MORIYA (JPN) bt (WC) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 46 62 60
(Q) Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt (Q) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) 46 76(4) 60
(SE) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 64 76(5)
(Q) Vishal PUNNA (IND) bt (2) Yuichi ITO (JPN) 36 64 61

Doubles First Round
(1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Vedant Kapoor (IND)/ Fariz Mohammed (IND) 63 62
Alexei Filenkov (RUS)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) bt Niall Angus (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 62 60
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Masato Hatanaka (JPN)/ Takuto Niki (JPN) 61 76(5)
(WC) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (WC) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) 46 76(4) 10(8)

Adam El Mihdawy (USA)/ Rohan Gide (IND) bt Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Vignesh Pernamallur-Chandrasekhar (IND) 63 57 10(4)
Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Vishal Punna (IND) bt (4) Mithun Murali (IND)/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 63 36 10(5)
Huai-En Chang (TPE)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) bt Vijaykant Malik (IND)/ Abhijeet Tiwari (IND) 36 75 15(13)
(2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE)/ Navdeep Singh (IND) bt Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Arata Onozawa (JPN) 64 63

[QF] (2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE)/ Navdeep Singh (IND) bt Huai-En Chang (TPE)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) 63 76(2)

Vijaykant found himself lucky as his 3rd seed opponent retired from the match after playing only 2 games ... Vishal Punna showed old magic beating 2nd seed Japanese opponent in 3 sets ... Yuki scored tight victory over his experienced doubles partner ... Qualifier Pashanth also started wellbeating his Thai opponent.
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At $100K+H Aegean Tennis Cup 2009, Rhodes, Greece (Hard court)

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) vs (Q) Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN,309)
[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,326) vs (WC) Theodoros Angelinos (GRE,UNR)

Rohan was lucky in the draw after qualifying and facing weakest player from the draw ... Prakash is also having winnable first round match.
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At $50K Charlottesville ITF Tournament, VA, USA

[Q1] (5) Shikha Uberoi (IND,593) bt Nicole Bartnik (USA,UNR) 61 67(0) 64

[Q2] (5) Shikha Uberoi (IND,) vs Christina Fusano (USA,UNR)

Surprisingly tough match for Shikha after winning first set easily against unranked player ... In second qualifying round she is facing doubles specialist Fusano.