Tennis News
At $50K Almaty Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt (WC) Dmitriy Borodkin (KAZ)/ Stanislav Bykov (KAZ) 61 61

[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs Rylan Rizza (USA)/ Jose (rubin) Statham (NZL)

So as expected easy victory against local wildcard pair for Purav and Sadik ... In quarters they r facing American- All Black pair.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, New Delhi

Second Round
(1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 64 62
(7) Peter LUCASSEN (NED) bt Johnny ARCILLA (PHI) 60 62
(3) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt Rupesh ROY (IND) 60 61
(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Seung-Jae LEE (KOR) 63 46 76(8)
(Q) Jae-Won CHOI (KOR) bt (6) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 63 26 64
Krishananth BALAKRISHNAN (AUS) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 63 63
(5) Chris EATON (GBR) bt Kyle BRASSINGTON (GBR) 62 62
(2) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Shane LA PORTE (USA) 62 1-0 Retd

Only 3 Indians remaining into nthe quarters ... I was expecting win from Rohan and Vivek ... Karan and Rohan lost in doubles quarter-final against British pair.
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At $10K ITF Tournament, Nothanburi, Thailand

[R2] (5) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,416) l Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB,631) 36 46

Though Albina Khabibulina is very talented 17 yrs old still Poojashree needed to win these matches to improve her game and move up her ranking.