Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

MXD Final
(3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Cara Black (RSA) l (WC) Carly Gullickson (USA)/ Travis Parrott (USA) 26 46

Junior
[R3] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1) bt Jack Sock (USA,1015) 64 63

[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1) vs Chase Buchanan (USA,212)

Lee and Cara were struggling from start of the match ... They tried comeback in second set but Parrott was too strong near the net and Carly Gullickson matched his game with her good service games and game from back of the court ... So overall deserving victory for wild card American pair, who completed their dream like US Open with mixed doubles title win.

So this was first time where Yuki tested by his unheard opponent ... This match was going on for an hour in that Yuki broke Sock's serve 5 times from 12 chances but Sock also broke Yuki's serve twice from 4 chances ... Next Yuki is facing American Chase Buchanan, who was ranked #6 in Junior WR ranking in March 2009 ... This is his first junior tournament of the year as he stopped playing in juniors from January 2009 ... He regularly played in US futures and this year he received wild card for US Open men's main draw ... Where he lost against Tsonga ... So this can be good match for Yuki.
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At $50K+H Seville Challenger, Spain (yellow clay)

[SF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) bt (1) Santiago Ventura (ESP)/ Reuben Ramirez-Vidalgo (ESP) 62 63

[F] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs Alberto Brizzi (ITA)/ Simone Vagnozzi (ITA)

Very impressive convincing win by Harsh and Huey against top-seed local pair ... So they r in their second consecutive Challenger final, that's also on clay ... Now it would be great if they finishes of with title this week.
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At $50K St Remy de Provence Challenger, France

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Olivier Charroin (FRA) bt Nicholas Mahut (FRA)/ Sebastien De Chaunac (FRA) 63 64

Good dominating win against tricky French pair for Rohan and Olivier.
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At $10K ITF Womens Tournament, Bangalore, India

Semi Final
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt (4) Keren SHLOMO (ISR) 64 62
(5) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) l (7) Dalila JAKUPOVIC (SLO) 36 46

So another Indian futures final for Poojashree ... But Sanaa couldn't make all Indians final.
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At $ 10K Burundi F1 Futures (clay)

[R1] (4) Rupesh ROY (IND,694) bt Sunday EMMANUEL (NGR,996) 76(2) 76(3)
[R1] (Q) Himananshu MALI (IND,UNR) bt Issa CUMA (BDI,NR) 75 76(5)

[R2] (4) Rupesh ROY (IND,694) bt Mauricio ALVAREZ-GUZMAN (CHI,1341) 64 64
[R2] (Q) Himananshu MALI (IND,UNR) l (7) Marco DIERCKX (BEL,898) 36 46

[QF] (4) Rupesh ROY (IND,694) bt (6) Motaz ABOU EL KHAIR (EGY,856) 60 61

[SF] (4) Rupesh ROY (IND,694) vs (2) Adam VEJMELKA (CZE,565)

Rupesh is playing on clay at Burundi and happy to see he is performing as per his seedings ... Hoping for upset win against Vejmelka.