Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,95) vs Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ,81)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Sebastien De Chaunac (FRA)/ Benoit Paire (FRA)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) vs Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Sergio Roitman (ARG)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Josselin Ouanna (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) vs Andrei Pavel (ROU)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

[R1] (14) Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Ipek Senoglu (TUR)/ Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)

Sania having relatively easy opponent in the first round but can face 7th seed Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova in second round if she crosses the first hurdle ... In doubles she is seeded with Chia-Jung Chuang, they can meed second seeded Lisa Raymonds and Kveta Peschke in third round.

Lee and Lukas r in top draw with top seed Nestor and Zimo ... mahesh and Mark r in bottom draw with Bryans ... Rohan get very good partner in former top-5 and 2008 Australian Open doubles champion Israeli Jonathan Erlich ... Rohan and Erlich can meet Mahesh and Mark in thrid round if they wins their first 2 rounds.
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At $50K Carson Challenger II, California, USA

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) vs (WC) Lester Cook (USA)/ Jesse Witten (USA)

Harsh is playing with new partner this week.
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At $15K Kuwait F2 Futures, Meshref

[Q1] (1) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) bye
[Q1] (4) TIWARI Abhijeet (IND,1529) bye
[Q1] SOOD Chandril (IND,UNR) bt AL BITAR AbdelRahman (EGY,UNR) 61 61
[Q1] NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND,UNR) bt SOOD Lakshit (IND,UNR) 61 61

[Q2] (1) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) bt AL ABDULLH Zaki (KSA,UNR) 75 62
[Q2] (4) TIWARI Abhijeet (IND,1529) bt ABBAS Saad (GBR,UNR) 62 62
[Q2] SOOD Chandril (IND,UNR) l (5) KISLYANSKIY Roman (RUS,1538) 26 26
[Q2] NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND,UNR) bt ALI Ahmed (KUW,UNR) 63 61

[R1] (Q) NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND,UNR) vs LEE Hsin-Han (TPE,612)
[R1] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) vs (Q) MAAROUF Hayan (SYR,1844)
[R1] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,773) vs (4) KROTIOUK Sergei (RUS,544)
[R1] (PR) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,1202) vs RICE David (GBR,884)
[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND,949) vs THORNLEY Sean (GBR,825)
[R1] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) vs SHARAN Divij (IND,717)
[R1] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND,847) vs (3) YSERN Pierrick (FRA,539)
[R1] (Q) TIWARI Abhijeet (IND,1529) vs (2) GOFFIN David (BEL,521)

Doubles
[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) vs (WC) JANAHI Hamad Abbas (UAE)/ SULTAN Ziad (KUW)
[R1] NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND) vs KROTIOUK Sergei (RUS)/ MANEGIN Anton (RUS)
[R1] (3) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW) vs MALIK Vijayant (IND)/ TIWARI Abhijeet (IND)
[R1] SHOKEEN Vivek (IND)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) vs RICE David (GBR)/ THORNLEY Sean (GBR)

So again 3 Indians qualified for maindraw ... But Yuki is missing from the list due to ankle injury ... Last week in doubles quarter-final he twisted his ankle while playing over head shot, though injury isn't serious but due to this injury he is going to miss Junior French Open 2009 as doctor asked him to took rest for 2 to 3 weeks before playing on the tour.

In between good news r keep coming for Yuki Bhambri ... He recieved invitation of playing with American teen age sensation Ryan Harrison to play with Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras in the Venetian Macao Tennis Showdown, an exhibition event this October.

Yuki Bhambri - “I’ll have to be there to believe it. I think I still wouldn’t believe it if I was right there with them. You dream of watching them play, but to actually play with them is huge.”