Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,163) l (3) Marcos Daniel (BRA,96) 46 46
[Q1] (26) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138) bt João Souza (BRA,223) 62 26 75
[Q1] Rajeev Ram (USA,169) bt (WC) Julien Obry (FRA,941) 64 62

[Q2] Rajeev Ram (USA,169) vs (4) Victor Crivoi (ROU,99)
[Q2] (26) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138) vs Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,198)

Very clinical performance from Marcos Daniel, after winning first set in second set his serve was under pressure all the time but he managed to hold his serve ... Other hand Kash's was holding his serve easily but Marcos Daniel take crucial break in 9th game to win this match.

Som started with breaking Souza's serve but Souza broke immediately to make it 1-1 ... But again Som broke Souza's serve to take 2-1 lead ... Som broke again Souza in 7th game to take 2 break lead and won first set 6-2.

In 2nd set from 2-2 once again Som lost his focus and one way traffic for Souza as he won next 4 games to won second set 6-2.

In third set match was on serve until 7 games but in 8th game Souza broke Som's serve and was serving for the match on 5-3 ... But Som had another plan he broke back @ 30 and then saved 1 match point on his own serve to make it 5-5 ... Then 11th game was going for longer time, after couple of duece Som managed crucial break to lead 6-5 ... Souza saved couple of match point from 40-15 but Som converted 3rd match point to score important win.

In 2nd qualifying he is facing Britisher Alex Bogdanovic.
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At $10K ITF Womens Futures, Mumbai

First Round
(1) Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) bt Nupur KAUL (IND) 75 63
Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) bt Stephanie THEILER (SUI) 76(6) 64
Tanvi SHAH (IND) bt Anushree THAMMANNA (IND) 60 60
(5) Yoon-Young JEONG (KOR) bt Kristina PEJKOVIC (AUS) 75 63
(4) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) 62 61
Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) bt Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA (IND) 62 61
Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) bt Sonya DAYAL (IND) 63 63
(8) Chun-Yan HE (CHN) bt Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 64 60
(6) Parul GOSWAMI (IND) bt Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) 57 76(6) 63
Seo-Kyung KANG (KOR) bt Adnya NAIK (IND) 62 64
Alisa OGORODOVA (UZB) bt Aishwarya AGRAWAL (IND) 75 61
(3) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) bt Shivika BURMAN (IND) 64 64
(7) Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) bt Ankita RAINA (IND) 46 63 64
Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) bt Yui-Lynn MIAO (TPE) 26 63 75
Renee BINNIE (AUS) bt Lisa MARSHALL (RSA) 63 60
(2) Isha LAKHANI (IND) bt Marisa GIANOTTI (AUS) 62 46 61