Tennis News
At $450K 2010 Aircel Chennai Open, India

[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,335) bt Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,483) 75 64
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,212) bt Vishnu Vardhan (IND,390) 75 63
[Q1] Rohan Gajjar (IND,477) l (6) Peter Polansky (CAN,185) 36 67(8)
[Q1] (WC) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND,UNR) l Jan Minar (CZE,244) 46 26
[Q1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,789) l (4) Marsel Ilhan (TUR,155) 57 63 26
[Q1] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND,1050) l James Ward (GBR,270) 26 46
[Q1] (WC) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,906) l Noam Okun (ISR,258) 26 36

[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,212) vs (6) Peter Polansky (CAN,185)
[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,335) vs (1) Illya Marchenko (UKR,120)

[R1] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND,392) vs (4) Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI,21)
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,126) vs Rainer Schuettler (GER,85)
[R1] (8) Rajeev Ram (USA,79) vs Thiemo De Bakker (NED,96)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (4) Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA)
[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Carlos Moya (ESP) vs Dudi Sela (ISR)/ Robby Ginepri (USA)

Expected winning start for Prakash ... Gajjar and Mayur lost against higher ranked opponents ... In remaining lot only Yuki managed to move second round, but Sanam produced fighting performance against top-150 type player whom he stretched to 3 sets ... But overall disappointing stuff as only our 2 players win who faced Indians in first round.

Tough maindraw for our players as Somi facing seasoned German Rainer Schuettler ... Rohan having more tough challenge against former top-10 Swiss player Wawrinka ... In doubles Harsh missed cut playing with Istomin.
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At $220K ABS Classic, Auckland, New Zealand

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,57) vs Stefanie Voegele (SUI,75)

Sania starting her preparation for Australian Open with ABS Classic.
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At $372.5K Brisbane International, Australia

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Sam Querrey (USA)

Good to see Lee and Lukas preparing for Australian Open playing at Brisbane.