Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Alessandro Motti (ITA )/ Joseph Sirianni (AUS) 76(0) 67(1) 8-6

[Q2] Rajeev Ram (USA,160) bt Sam Warburg (USA,218) 63 62

[Q3] (28) Prakash Amritraj (IND,154) vs Michael Yani (USA,253)
[Q3] Rajeev Ram (USA,160) vs Andrea Stoppini (ITA,177)

[Q1] (7) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Frank Moser (GER) 75 57 61

[Q2] (7) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (4) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Som and Kevin did unthinkable, they qualified for Big W doubles maindraw !!!

They scored very hard fought win in final qualifying round to qualify for Wimbledon ... Match was very close as first 2 sets went to tie-breaks and as decider didn't have tie-break, Som and Kevin broke opponent's serve on 14th game to captured their place in doubles maindraw ... This is Som's first grand slam maindraw, hopefully from henceforth we will see him in singles maindraw also.

Prakash and Aisam completed their first qualifying round win winning 3 games ... They will face Thai Ratiwatana brothers in final qualifying round ... They r also having good chance of qualify for doubles maindraw.

Rajeev also joined Prakash in singles final qualifying match ... So today Prakash and Rajeev will try to qualify for Singles maindraw in best-of-5 sets match.
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At $600K Aegon International, Eastbourne, Great Britain

[QF] (2) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l Travis Parrott (USA)/ Filip Polasek (SVK) 67(5) 46

Mahesh and Mark also faced early exit from this Wimbledon tuneup tournament ... So our both pairs doesn't have best preparation for Wimbledon as Lee played only 1 match on grass and Mahesh played 2 matches.
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At $15K Ireland F1 Futures, Dublin

[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Oliver Evans (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 64 64

[SF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA)/ Vincent Stouff (FRA)

Another straight sets victory for Purav and his partner.
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At $10K Malaysia F1 Futures, Kuala Lumpur

[R2] Rohan Gajjar (IND,727) l Hsin-Han Lee (TPE,575) 64 57 36

Doubles
[QF] (ALT) Navdeep Singh (IND)/ Xin-Yuan Yu (CHN) l (4) Zhe Li (CHN)/ Yu Wang Jr. (CHN) 46 75 (7)10
[QF] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ David Rice (GBR) l Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA)/ Di Wu (CHN) 16 46

Rohan lost after winning first set ... Navdeep also gave good fighting performance against seeded Chinese pair with his Chinese partner.