Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[Q1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,326) vs (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,77)
[Q1] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND,120) vs David Guez (FRA,139)

Yuki having tough match against Istomin, who is top-seed in qualifying .. Interesting to see how he perform against top-75 player ... Somi having tricky match, French David Guez won 8/9 futures last year and was future player of ITF in 2009.
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At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) vs (3) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,182)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) vs Kyu-tae Im (KOR)/ Lester Cook (USA)
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(1) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) bt (WC) Mandeep Singh GILL (IND) 61 61
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Almog MASHIACH (ISR) 75 76(2)
Ruben GONZALES (USA) bt Christopher RACZ (USA) 61 61
(WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 63 36 61

Doubles First Round
MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) bt (1) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) 67(3) 63 10-8
AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) bt (WC) TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND) 62 67(5) 10-6
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) bt FILENKOV (RUS)/ PAVLOV (RUS) 64 61
HUANG (TPE)/ NELORD (IND) bt GARZELLI (ITA)/ VILLAR (ARG) 64 63

NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt MANUJA (IND)/ REDDY B (IND) 62 75
(3) FRANSEN (NED)/ SHARAN (IND) bt MARQUIS (IND)/ MASHIACH (ISR) 46 75 10-5
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt (WC) PHOGAT (IND)/ SANGWAN (IND) 61 64
(2) GAJJAR (IND)/ ROY (IND) bt (WC) SOOD (IND) / SOOD (IND) 57 62 10-5

Vijay Sundar having excellent start, he scored upset win in singles and defeated top-seed pair with Mithun Murali in doubles first round ... Vivek also scored good win against Israeli but facing top-seed Argentine in second round.
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At $15k China F2 Futures, Thailand

[R1] Purav RAJA (IND,935) vs Yu CHANG (CHN,904)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) vs Jae-Sung AN (KOR)/ Sun-Yong KIM (KOR)