Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[Q1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,326) l (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,77) 16 36
[Q1] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND, 120) bt David Guez (FRA, 139) 76(3) 64

[Q2] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND, 120) vs (3) Illya Marchenko (UKR,85)

In first set Somdev had two breaks but Guez broke back and then in second set Somi was a break down but this time he fought back ... Still good to see Somi won match in straight sets ... Next he is facing Ukrainian Illya Marchenko.

In other match Yuki couldn't match power game of Istomin, who gave him bitter dose of professional tennis ... Istomin scored dominating win over Yuki, who didn't have a single break point on Denis's serve but faced 12 break points on his serve and managed to save 8.
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At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs (WC) Oliver Golding (GBR)/ Neil Pauffley (GBR)
[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) 62 75
(5) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (Q) Mikhail PAVLOV (RUS) 76(5) 76(5)
(3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND) 63 61
Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt Stephan FRANSEN (NED) 75 46 64
(Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bt (Q) Vikram REDDY B (IND) 60 64
(8) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Yannick NELORD (IND) 64 61
(7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 64 63
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt (Q) Viju GEORGE JR (USA) 76(6) 63
(4) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) bt Divij SHARAN (IND) 61 62
(6) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS) 63 64
(Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) bt (WC) Digvijay SINGH MEHTA (IND) 61 62
Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 63 26 60

So this week total our 9 players r in second round .. Karan upset 2nd seed Rohan Gajjar, like the way he won 3rd set after losing 2nd ... Rupesh needed 2 tie-breaks to overcome Russian qualifier.
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At $25k Namangan ITF Womens Tournament, Uzbekistan

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,347) vs (Q) Viktoria Yemialyanava (BLR,586)

Doubles
[R1] KHABIBULINA (UZB)/ VENKATESHA (IND) l (3) ANTONIYCHUK (UKR)/ LYKINA (RUS) 57 46
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At $15k China F2 Futures, Mengzi, Honghe

[R1] Purav RAJA (IND,935) l Yu CHANG (CHN,904) 16 36

Doubles
[R1] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) bt Jae-Sung AN (KOR)/ Sun-Yong KIM (KOR) 63 62

[QF] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) vs He Feng (CHN)/ Feng Xue (CHN)

Easy loss in singles but expected start in doubles.