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At $50K Australian Open Grand Prix, Victoria, Melbourne

[R1] (6) Anup Sridhar (IND,45) bt Le The Hung Pham (AUS,450) 21-14 21-14
[R1] Gurusaidatt R.M.V. (IND,98) bt Ashwant Gobinathan (AUS,UNR) 21-5 21-11
[R1] (7) Anand Pawar (IND,46) bt Nathan David (AUS,UNR) 21-13 21-5
[R1] Aditya Prakash (IND,311) bt Jacky Wu (AUS,UNR) 21-12 21-7
[R1] Aditya Elango (IND,326) bt Vincent Choo (AUS,UNR) 21-8 21-13

[R2] (6) Anup Sridhar (IND,45) bt Zulfadli Zulkiffli (MAS,275) 21-17 21-18
[R2] Gurusaidatt R.M.V. (IND,98) l Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,74) 14-21 19-21
[R2] (7) Anand Pawar (IND,46) l Alamsyah Yunus (INA,111) 17-21 21-19 14-21
[R2] Aditya Prakash (IND,311) bt (3) Tsuen Seng Lee (MAS,21) 19-21 19-21
[R2] Aditya Elango (IND,326) l (5) Brice Leverdez (FRA,41) 14-21 20-22

[R3] (6) Anup Sridhar (IND,45) vs Nicholas Jinadasa (USA,348)
[R3] Aditya Prakash (IND,311) vs James Eunson (NZL,182)

[R1] Trupti Murgunde (IND,126) vs (3) Kristina Ludikova (CZE,60)
[R1] (5) Neha Pandit (IND,73) vs (Q) Louisa Ma (AUS,UNR)

[R1] (1) Rupesh K. T. Kumar (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) bye
[R1] (4) Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) bye
[R1] (3) Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Jishnu Sanyal (IND) bye

[R1] (3) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bye
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) bye
[R1] Anjali Kalita (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) bye

[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) bt (8) Kevin Dennerly-Minturn (NZL)/ Louise Mckenzie (NZL) 21-13 20-22 21-9
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) bt Chad Whitehead (AUS)/ Eugenia Tanaka (AUS) 21-9 21-23 21-17
[R1] Jishnu Sanyal (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) bt Asher Richardson (NZL)/ Melissa Yin (NZL) 21-12 21-18
[R1] (4) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) bt Bjorn Seguin (NZL)/ Angulo Deyanira (MEX) 21-10 21-17

[R2] (3) Aparna Balan (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc (VIE)/ Kristina Ludikova (CZE)
[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) vs Emma Chapple (NZL)/ Stephanie Cheng (NZL)
[R2] Anjali Kalita (IND)/ Jyotshna Polavarapu (IND) vs (4) Amanda Brown (NZL)/ Susannah Leydon-Davis (NZL)

[R2] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Shruti Kurian (IND) vs Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND)
[R2] Jishnu Sanyal (IND)/ Nitya Sosale (IND) vs Benjamin Walklate (AUS)/ Kate Wilson-Smith (AUS)
[R2] (4) Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) vs Yogendran Krishnan (MAS)/ Anita Raj Kaur (MAS)

Big Indian contingent is playing at Melbourne in Australian Open Grand Prix ... Many second string Indian players r getting chance but again disappointing start in mans singles for Anand Pawar, who had usual hit and miss day ... After expectedly winning first match easily he lost second match to lowly ranked Indonasian.

Other hand Aditya Prakash showed excellent performance beating top-25 and 3rd seed Malayasian in second round, he won match in straight games to scored biggest victory of his small career ... Anup Sridhar had comfortable start wining both matches in straight games.