Tennis News
At $75K ITF Vancouver Women's Tournament, Canada

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND,83) l (2) Stephanie Dubois (CAN, 106) 61 46 46

After winning first set easily both players exchanged early breaks and Sania was down 2-3 ... With another break Stephanie lead 2-5 then Sania tried fight back but at 4-5 Stephanie hold her serve to won second set ... In third set Stephanie broke Sania's serve in first game to lead 0-2 but Sania broke her serve in 4th game to brought set on serve 2-all ... Then only crucial service break Stephanie take in 9th game to lead 4-5 and then hold her serve to won this final.

So at last Sania's luck end against third local player she was facing in 3 days ... This was Stephanie's second win against Sania, before this 6 yrs back she defeated Sania in Toronto ... Reaching final will helped Sania to bring her ranking inside top-75.
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At $50K Binghamton Challenger, New York, USA

[R1] (8) Somdev Devvarman (IND,140) vs Sergei Bubka (UKR,186)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND,261) vs Ryler DeHeart (USA,201)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-UL-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (WC) Lester Cook (USA)/ John Paul Fruttero (USA)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA)
[R1] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ David Martin (USA) vs (WC) Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Andrea Stoppini (ITA)

This week Somi back to play challenger and facing young talented Bubka in first round ... Prakash received wilcard for this tournament and facing American DeHeart in first round ... Also our 3 pairs r playing in doubles and two r seeded.
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At $ 35K (+ H) Brasilia challanger

[Q3] (5) J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND,458) l (1) Daniel King-Turner (NZL,356) 36 62 67(5)

Doubles
[R1] Nikolay Nesterov (RUS)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (2) Ricardo Hocevar (BRA)/ Andre Miele (BRA)
[R1] Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Rodrigo Guidolim (BRA)

After winning first 2 qualifying round easily against local players Vishnu faces top-seed King-Turner ... Very close loss for Vishnu in the third set tie-break against experienced player ... Playing more abroad will definitely going to help Vishnu to improve his game.

In doubles Vishnu having tough match with his Russian partner against 2nd seed local pair ... Ashutosh is also facing local pair with his South African partner.
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At $15K Iran F6 futures, Tehran (Clay)

[R1] Vikram Reddy B (IND,1243) vs (1) Adam Vejmelka (CZE,411)
[R1] (Q) Abhijeet Tiwari (IND,1460) vs Shahin Khaledan (IRI,1238)
[R1] Yannick Nelord (IND,1347) vs (WC) Christopher Rungkat (INA,1249)
[R1] (8) Vignesh Peranamallur-Chandrasekhar (IND,904) vs (Q) Sunu-Wahyu Trijati (INA,UNR)
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,995) vs Srirambalaji Narayanswamy (IND,1457)
[R1] (6) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,706) vs Rouzbeh Kamran (IRI,1333)
[R1] Ronak Manuja (IND,1209) vs (2) Bogdan-Victor Leonte (ROU,526)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Srirambalaji Narayanswamy (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) vs Issam Al Taweel (SYR)/ Hayan Maarouf (SYR)
[R1] Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Vignesh Peranamallur-Chandrasekhar (IND) vs Alborz Akhavan Roufigar (IRI)/ Mohsen Hossein Zade (IRI) (WC)
[R1] Vikram Reddy B (IND)/ Abhijeet Tiwari (IND) vs (WC) Anoosha Shahgholi (IRI)/ Ashkan Shokppfi (IRI)
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Yannick Nelord (IND) vs (2) Alexei Filenkov (RUS)/ Christoph Lessiak (AUT)

Big Indian contingent playing in Iranian futures ... Hopefully some of them will take advantage with going deep.