Tennis News
At €450K BMW Open, Munich, Germany (Red clay)

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Travis Parrott (USA) l (2) Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Jordan Kerr (AUS) 67(2) 46

Rohan and Parrott fine run ended in semis against Australian pair ... Overall good performance for Rohan in his first tournament on red clay.
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At €3.7M Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, Spain

[Q1] (18) Sania Mirza (IND,92) l Aravane Rezai (FRA,108) 36 36

Sania's struggled continue ... Worrying more of lack of practice due to first round losses.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, USA (Green clay)

[SF] (3) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kaes Van't Hof (USA) bt (WC) Alex Kuznetsov (USA)/ Fritz Wolmarans (RSA) 64 61

[F] (3) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kaes Van't Hof (USA) vs (1) Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 67(4) 46

Harsh and Kaes scored good easy victory in doubles semis against wild-card pair, who defeated second seed pair earlier ... But in the final they couldn't overcome top-seed pair challenge and lost in 2 tight sets.

So with this Harsh climb to his personal best doubles ranking and first-time break into top-150 doubles raning, he is on #145.
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At Asia-Oceania u-14 Boys Qualifying, Kuching, Malaysia

Quarter Finals - (7) India l (3) Australia 0-3

Vishal Passi l Nicholas Kyrgios 26 36
Abhishek Alla l Jay Andrijic 16 26
Divgijay Singh Naruka/ Vishal Passi l Nicholas Kyrgios/ Daniel Talens 26 26

Disappointing stuff from our U-14 boys ... Nobody gave any decent fight to their respective opponents.
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Junior French Open 2009,

As expected Yuki Bhambri is top-seed in Roland Garros acceptance list .. Kaza Vinayak Sharma is only other Indian boy or girl in qualifying.