Tennis News
At $10K India F3 Futures, Vijayawada

Singles Second Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Akash WAGH (IND) 61 61
(7) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 76(4) 63
(WC) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt (3) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) 76(4) 60
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Almog MASHIACH (ISR) 61 61
(6) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) bt (Q) Sebastian LAVIE (NZL) 62 76(3)
(4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Stephan FRANSEN (NED) 75 2-0 Retd.
(8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (Q) Kamala KANNAN (IND) 16 60 63
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Yannick NELORD (IND) 62 62

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt NELORD (IND)/ THOMPSON (USA) 67(4) 76(4) 11-9
(4) CHEN (TPE)/ ROY (IND) bt JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ KHAN (IND) 64 62
(3) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) bt MARQUIS (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) 63 64
NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt FILENKOV (RUS)/ FRANSEN (NED) 64 36 13-11

Terrific performance by Indians, 6 r in singles quarter-finals and 3 doubles semi-finalist pair having Indian players in it.

Young Kaza Vinayak scored only upset win ... He defeated 3rd seed Argentine in straight sets, won 2nd set 6-0 after winning first set in tie-break ... In doubles top-seed pair of Divij and Vishnu won marathon match after huge battle.
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At $10K Cairo, Egypt (Clay)

[R1] (2) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,348) bt Elina GASANOVA (RUS,678) 63 62
[R1] Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,579) l Claudia LORENZO FERNANDEZ (ESP,898) 36 16

[R2] (2) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,348) vs Margit RUUTEL (EST,921)

Doubles
[R1] (3) CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ VENKATESHA (IND) bt CERVERA-VAZQUEZ (ESP)/ LORENZO FERNANDEZ (ESP) 46 63 10-8

Good start Poojashree but other hand very one-sided defeat of Rushmi.