Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[Q1] Rajeev Ram (USA,160) bt (18) Lamine Ouahab (ALG,138) 64 76(0)

[Q2] (28) Prakash Amritraj (IND,154) bt (WC) Daniel Cox (GBR,627) 63 63
[Q2] Rajeev Ram (USA,160) vs Sam Warburg (USA,218)

[Q3] (28) Prakash Amritraj (IND,154) vs Michael Yani (USA,253)

Doubles
[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt (8) Sergei Bubka (UKR)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 62 26 64
[Q1] (7) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Frank Moser (GER) 75 57 3-1

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) vs Alessandro Motti (ITA )/ Joseph Sirianni (AUS)

Prakash is one win away to complete his dream of playing in Wimbledon maindraw ... Yesterday he scored another easy victory over British wildcarder ... Now in final qualifying he is facing 250 ranked American, Kash having big opportunity of qualifying for maindraw.

Rajeev also started well scoring win over seeded opponent ... In next round he is facing fellow American.

In qualifying doubles Som and Kevin started with small upset over 8th seed Ukranian pair, now in final qualifying round they will face Australian Guccione and Italian Motti ... 2nd seed Kash and Aisam having tough time in their first round qualifying match, they were break up in decider when match was stopped due to bad light.
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At $600K Aegon International, Eastbourne, Great Britain

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) l Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 16 67(3)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) l (4) Samantha Stosur (AUS)/ Rennae Stubbs (AUS) 57 46

Very surprising first round loss for Lee and Lukas against Polish pair ... In first set they lost service twice to lose set easily ... In second set they fought but Polish pair dominantly won tie-break.

Sania and Chia-Jung had tough match against Australian pair ... They played close match but couldn't converted into win.
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At $15K Ireland F1 Futures, Dublin

[R1] Purav Raja (IND,916) l (7) Milan Pokrajac (CAN,689) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Niall Angus (GBR)/ Ben Pritchard (GBR) 62 63
[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs Oliver Evans (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR)
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At $10K Thailand Futures, Pattaya

[Q1] (2) Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) bt Harshini REDDY (IND) 64 62
[Q1] Ting-Fei JUAN (TPE) bt (3) Shivika BURMAN (IND) 61 62
[Q1] (10) Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) bt Sindhu Nila PARTHEEPAN (IND) 63 60

[Q2] Prang PANTUSART (THA) bt (2) Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) 63 75
[Q2] (6) Sophie LETCHER (AUS) bt (10) Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) 16 61 64

[R1] Beatrice GUMULYA (INA) bt Parul GOSWAMI (IND) 64 76(7)
[R1] (7) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Sung-Hee HAN (KOR) 75 61
[R1] (3) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt Kanyapat NARATTANA (THA) 64 26 63
[R1] (6) Ai YAMAMOTO (JPN) bt Parija MALOO (IND) 64 64

[R2] (3) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND,398) l Ellen BARRY (NZL,UNR) 26 67(3)
[R2] (7) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND,548) l Nicha LERTPITAKSINCHAI (THA,982) 26 06

So this week at least Ankita and Sanaa won their matches against foreign players ... Both lost in second round and Sanaa's score was more shocking.