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

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,212) bt Lars Poerschke (GER,277) 76(5) 63
[Q3] Yuki Bhambri (IND,335) l Louk Sorensen (IRL,293) 26 76(8) 26

Excellent straight sets victory by Kash to qualify for main draw in style ... Kash broke back to make it 5-all after being broken in the opening game and then winning tight first set in tie-break ... Then he broke Poerschke's served twice and saving few break points on his own serve to produced consistent performance to won second set ... Kash can be dangerous floater in main draw with 3 wins under belt before first round main draw.

After losing first set Yuki fought back against more experienced Irishman Sorensen ... In second set tie-break also he was down with mini-break at 0-3 but he fought back to won this set after saving a match point to take match in to decider ... Yuki started third set on positive note breaking Sorensen's serve in first game but then he couldn't continue same tempo and Sorensen stamped his superiority breaking Yuki's serve thrice, 2nd, 6th and 8th game ... Still creditable performance from Yuki, he got 6 ranking points for reaching in final qualifying.
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At $50K Quanzhou ITF Womens Tournament, China

[Q1] Kumari-Sweta Solanki (IND,819) bt Xiaomeng Cheng (CHN,UNR) 63 63
[Q2] Kumari-Sweta Solanki (IND,819) l Yue Yuan (CHN,UNR) 36 16

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,324) vs (LL) Yi Zhong (CHN,948)

Doubles
[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND)/ Ting Li (CHN) vs (1) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)/ Zi Yan (CHN)

Poojashree having favorable draw in singles but in doubles she and her Chinese partner facing very experienced doubles players ... Zi Yan was top-5 doubles player in 2006 and currently she is #23.