Tennis News
At $50K Jersey Challenger, Great Britain

Doubles Final
(1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (2) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 62 16 10-6

Another challenger doubles title for Rohan, this time with Ken Skupski ... Good they pulled this match against 2nd seed British pair in super tie-break ... Don't know about his next week schedule but he is playing with Aisam at Grand Prix Hassan II ATP tournament, Casablanca, Morocco from 5th April.
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At $10K India F2 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Final
Karan RASTOGI (IND,933) bt (Q) Romain SICHEZ (FRA,1445) 46 64 64

Romain was attacking on Karan's serve from the start ... Karan was struggling to hold his serve and after creating numerous chances Romain managed to break Karan's serve in 7th game ... And that break was enough to won first set ... In second set also Karan lost his serve in first game but in 6th game Romain played loose game to gave break back and Karan take advantage of it ... In this set Karan played more free flowing game and was attacking on the net ... He kept pressure on Romain serve's and managed to break him in 10th game to make it 1 set-all ... In third set also Romain broke Karan's serve in 1st game but again Karan broke him in the next ... Both players were playing quality tennis and powerful serving in this set ... After holding his serve on luv in 9th game Karan broke Romain's serve on luv in 10th game with down the line forehand winner to lift the title.

Happy for Karan ... He put lot of efforts and pain to come out of this career threatening shoulder injury and 4th futures title but this is his first title since return from long injury layoff ... Big moral boosting title win for him.