Tennis News
At $947,750 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

Doubles
[QF] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE) 62 67(4) (11)13

Bops and Aisam won first set easily with 3 breaks and losing their service once ... But in second set both pairs served quite well as both didn't face single break point ... But in tie-break Kunitsyn and Levinsky dominated to won second set ... In super tie-break Bops and Aisam had early lead with couple of mini-breaks but Kunitsyn and Levinsky fought back from 7-4 and bring back on serve at 7-6 ... Our pair had couple of match points at 9-7 but Kunitsyn and Levinsky won next 3 points to make it 9-10 ... This time our pair saved 1st match point but again Kunitsyn and Levinsky take mini-break to created 2nd match point, 10-11 ... Again our pair take mini-break to make it 11-all but again Kunitsyn and Levinsky hold to gave themselves 3rd match point ... And they won this breaking our pair's serve on match point.
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At U-16 Junior Davis Cup Finals, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

We r in Group D with 2nd seed Czech Republic, 7th seed USA and Chile .. We started with loss against 2nd seed.

India l (2) Czech Republic 0-3

JAYA PRAKASH Mohit Mayur l VESELY Jiri 26 36
SINGH Saurabh l RUMLER Robert 26 36
SINGH Saurabh /NAKKIREDDI Sai Katik l VRNAK Lukas/VESELY Jiri 36 46
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At $15K India F10 Futures, Kolkata

Second Round
(1) Daniel KING-TURNER (NZL) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 60 26 63
(7) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Mithun MURALI (IND) 62 67(4) 64
(3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 63 64
(8) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 46 63 62
(5) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Chin-Yu HUANG (TPE) 64 61
(4) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt Karunuday SINGH (IND) 61 63
Yannick NELORD (IND) bt Christopher MARQUIS (IND) 63 64
(2) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 62 62

Expected results though our some players produced good fight against their higher ranked opponents ... But now in quarters real test for our players ... Yuki is facing Kim who won 2 out of 3 futures in India last month.