Tennis News
At $50K Tiburon Challenger, CA, USA

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,223) l Alex Kuznetsov (USA,199) 67(1) 67(4)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs Marcel Felder (URU)/ Carlos Salamanca (COL)
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Kevin Kim (USA) vs (WC) Vince Spadea (USA)/ Will Grace (USA)

Prakash had numerous opportunities in the match but again inconsistent performance costed him match ... After losing opportunities in first set he also had winning second set with holding his serve at 6-5 but he lost hise serve and then lost another tie-break to lose match.

This week Harsh is at a career-high doubles ranking of 117.
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At $10K India ITF Womens Tournament, Pune

First Round
(1) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND) bt (Q) Arantxa ANDRADY (IND) 62 61
Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) bt Chika TERASAWA (JPN) 60 63
(Q) Sheethal GOUTHAM (IND) bt Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) 76(4) 63
(6) Elodie ROGGE-DIETRICH (FRA) bt (WC) Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA (IND) 62 60
(3) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Prathana PRATHAP (IND) 62 61
(Q) Aishwarya AGRAWAL (IND) bt (Q) Garima VATWANI (IND) 64 64
Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) bt Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) 64 64
(7) Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) bt (WC) Tanvi SHAH (IND) 61 63
(8) Shivika BURMAN (IND) bt (Q) Sonya DAYAL (IND) 63 67(8) 62
Khristina KAZIMOVA (UKR) bt (WC) Nova PATEL (IND) 63 62
(Q) Nimisha MOHAN (IND) bt Nupur KAUL (IND) 62 61
(4) Miki MIYAMURA (JPN) bt Sophia MULSAP (THA) 61 61
(5) Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND) bt (Q) Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND) 62 26 64
(WC) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Yang PANG (CHN) 46 63 64
Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) bt Natchanok SAENYAUKHOT (THA) 60 75
(2) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND) bt Alena GERASIMOVA (BLR) 62 60

Rashmi had good win against Thai opponent in first round ... Sheethal Goutham and Ankita Raina scored excellent upset wins against their higher ranked foreign opponents.