Tennis News
At $3.645M BNP Paribas Open , Indian Wells, USA

[Q1] (9) Somdev Devvarman (IND,121) bt Alex Kuznetsov (USA,184) 64 36 60
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,218) l (22) Brian Dabul (ARG,175) 26 46

[Q2] (9) Somdev Devvarman (IND,121) vs (14) Stefan Koubek (AUT,132)

Somi started positively breaking Kuznetsov in 1st and 3rd game to lead 3-0 but then Kuznetsov broke back but Somi kept one break advantage to won first set ... In second set also Somi started with breaking Kuznetsov's serve in first game ... But Kuznetsov broke back in 6th game to bring set on serve at 3-all ... Somi had another poor service game in 8th game, he was down 0-40 then saved 3 break points but Kuznetsov converted 4th to take control of the set ... Somi saved couple of set points in next game but Kuznetsov converted 3rd set point to won second set, Somi lost 5 games in a row to lose this set ... In third set again Somi had early break ... He broke Kuznetsov in 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Somi strengthen grip over this deciding set with another break in 4th game to lead 5-0 ... Somi completed match in style again breaking Kuznetsov to won third set 6-0 ... He needed 2 hours and 3 minutes to complete victory.

Dabul take early control of the match and didn't give any chance to Kash produce any comeback.
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At $35K+H Kyto Challanger, Japan

[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 63 64

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Greg Jones (AUS)/ Jose (rubin) Statham (NZL)
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs Junn Mitsuhashi (JPN)/ Takao Suzuki (JPN)

Winning start for seeded Purav and Sadik against experienced local pair, next they r facing another Japanese pair ... Vishnu and Divij facing Jones/ Statham, who had very convincing victory over top-seed Junaid/Sirianni in first round.