Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

[Q2] (20) Somdev DevVarman (IND, 120) l (3) Illya Marchenko (UKR,85) 46 36

Somdev started well breaking Illya's serve in 3rd game ... But Illya came back strongly breaking Somi's serve in 6th and 8th games ... Then Somi broke Illya's serve when he was serving for the set in 9th game ... Again Illya broke Somi's serve in 10th game to win first set ... In second set also Somi started well breaking Illya's serve in 1st game but again Illya broke Somi's serve in 4nd and 6th games to take control of the match ... And then hold his serve to won second set and match.

Somi is struggling with his serve but still good fighting performance from him to match talented Illya Marchenko.
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At $35K+H Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) bt (3) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,182) 62 62

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,217) vs (Q) Amir Weintraub (ISR,524)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) bt Kyu-tae Im (KOR)/ Lester Cook (USA) 62 46 11-9

[QF] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Martin Slanar (AUT) vs (ALT) Andrew Anderson (RSA)/ Goran Tosic (MNE)

Great start by Prakash ... Really happy to see such dominating win against seeded player ... In second round he is facing Israeli qualifier.

In doubles also they started with win though they stretched to super tie-break.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Second Round
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (1) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) 75 36 76(6)
(Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA) bt (5) Rupesh ROY (IND) 61 67(3) 16
(3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Ashutosh SINGH (IND) 62 62
(Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) bt (8) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 76(5) 64
(7) Adrian SIKORA (SVK) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 61 61
Ruben GONZALES (USA) bt (4) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) 62 62
(6) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (Q) Mithun MURALI (IND) 26 64 64
Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 46 76(6) 60

Doubles Quarter Finals
MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) bt AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) 46 62 10-8
(4) GONZALES (USA)/ THOMPSON (USA) bt HUANG (TPE)/ NELORD (IND) 63 76(4)

NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt (3) FRANSEN (NED)/ SHARAN (IND) 76(8) 57 10-8
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ ROY (IND) 76(2) 63

Our only 3 players r in quarters and our 2 seeded got upset from qualifiers ... One of them was Rupesh .. :@

But excellent upset win by Vivek over top-seed Argentine in tight 3 sets ... Karan again dominated 3rd set after losing first set and then produced comeback in the match winning 2nd in tie-break ... Ranjeet produced comfortable win over Ashutosh ... Our 3 pairs in doubles semis.
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At $15k China F2 Futures, Mengzi, Honghe

[QF] (1) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) l He Feng (CHN)/ Feng Xue (CHN) 46 46

This week top-seed Purav and Sadik lost in quarters against local pair.
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At $25k Namangan ITF Womens Tournament, Uzbekistan

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,347) l (Q) Viktoria Yemialyanava (BLR,586) 36 36

Was hoping easy win for Poojashree but instead of winning she lost easily.