Tennis News
At $2M Cincinnati Masters, USA

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Mariya Koryttseva (UKR)/ Tatiana Poutchek (BLR) 16 64 10(6)

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Liezel Huber (RSA)

This week Sania is playing in doubles at CinCinnati Masters with Italian partner Francesca Schiavone ... They won first round match in super tie-break after losing first set easily but in second round they r facing WR #1 pair.
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At $50K Binghamton Challenger, USA

[R1] (8) Somdev Devvarman (IND,140) l Sergei Bubka (UKR,186) 67(3) 57
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND,261) bt Ryler DeHeart (USA,201) 67(2) 63 63

[R2] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND,261) vs Sergei Bubka (UKR,186)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ David Martin (USA) bt (WC) Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Andrea Stoppini (ITA) 36 63 10(6)

Somdev's poor run in challenger continue, he lost in close 2 sets against Bubka ... Other hand Prakash is showing consistency in his game and scored comeback victory over DeHeart ... In next round he is facing Bubka.

Harsh and Martin also needed comeback in the match after losing first set to win their first round doubles match.
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At $ 35K+H Brasilia Challenger

[R1] Nikolay Nesterov (RUS)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Ricardo Hocevar (BRA)/ Andre Miele (BRA) 26 67(1)
[R1] Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) l Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Rodrigo Guidolim (BRA) 46 63 (5)10

In doubles our both pairs lost in first round against Brazilian pairs.
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At $15K Iran F6 futures, Tehran (Clay)

[R2] (Q) Abhijeet Tiwari (IND,1460) l (5) Haythem Abid (TUN,673) 67(5) 46
[R2] Yannick Nelord (IND,1347) bt Marco Sattanino (ITA,1298) 63 62
[R2] (8) Vignesh Peranamallur-Chandrasekhar (IND,904) bt (Q) Khachatur Khachataryan (ARM,1765) 76(6) 61
[R2] Vijayant Malik (IND,995) l (3) Murad Inoyatov (UZB,609) 26 76(8) 36
[R2] (6) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,706) bt (WC) Amir-Soheil Mohseni (IRI,1465) 76(4) 62

[QF] Yannick Nelord (IND,1347) vs (4) Matteo Volante (ITA,612)
[QF] (8) Vignesh Peranamallur-Chandrasekhar (IND,904) vs (3) Murad Inoyatov (UZB,609)
[QF] (6) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,706) vs (Q) Marc Abdulnour (SYR,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Vignesh Peranamallur-Chandrasekhar (IND) l (WC) Alborz Akhavan Roufigar (IRI)/ Mohsen Hossein Zade (IRI) 16 75 (6)10
[R1] Vikram Reddy B (IND)/ Abhijeet Tiwari (IND) l (WC) Anoosha Shahgholi (IRI)/ Ashkan Shokppfi (IRI) 64 26 (9)11

[QF] (3) Srirambalaji Narayanswamy (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) vs (WC) Alborz Akhavan Roufigar (IRI)/ Mohsen Hossein Zade (IRI)
[QF] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Yannick Nelord (IND) vs Murad Inoyatov (UZB)/ Stepan Khotulev (RUS)

Impressive win by Yannick Nelord against Italian opponent ... Also Ranjeet and Vignesh continued with their recent good perfromance ... After long time seeing 3 Indians in quarters on clay.