Tennis News
At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, FL, USA

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,185) bt (WC) Michael McClune (USA,447) 67(3) 75 76(3)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,149) l Marinko Matosevic (AUS,220) 36 36

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,185) vs (4) Vincent Spadea (USA,108)

Doubles
[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l (WC) Frederic Niemeyer (CAN)/ Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 26 46

Kash scored very unexpected hard fought win but sadly very disappointing stuff from Som, who lost tamely in singles and also lost final doubles qualifying.
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At 2009 Asia Oceania Junior Davis Cup, Shepparton, Australia (Grass)

For 3rd Place
(2) India bt (4) Australia 2-1

Singh Saurabh bt Volmari Todd 60 46 63
Jayaprakash Mohit Mayur bt Swaysland Joey 64 76(3)
Singh Saurabh/ Jayaprakash Mohit Mayur l Volmari Todd / Swaysland Joey 36 26

Overall very satisfying performance by our boys to qualify for Finals in Mexico ... But our girls performance remain worrying as they finished on 13th place out of 16 in Asian teams.
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At $10K Almaty Futures, Kazakhstan

[R1] Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND,745) l Khristina KAZIMOVA (UKR,989) 16 0-1 Retd
[R1] (3) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,574) bt Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS,989) 60 60

[R2] (3) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,574) vs Lara RAFFUL (BRA,760)

Doubles
[R1] Ester MASURI (ISR)/ Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) l (1) Ima BOHUSH (BLR)/ Eugeniya PASHKOVA (RUS) 06 16
[R1] (3) Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB)/ Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt Diana ISAEVA (RUS)/ Marina LUSHCHINA (RUS) 60 60

[QF] (3) Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB)/ Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) vs Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS)/ Vladislava KUZMENKOVA (BLR)

Very dominating start for Poojashree but hoping not a serious injury to Kumari-Sweta.