Tennis News
At € 2.835M Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, Spain

[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (ALT) Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)/ Eduardo Schwank (ARG) 64 62

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)

Easy win against Argentine pair but in quarters facing Spanish pair.
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At $100K+H Bordeaux Challenger, France (Red clay)

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Karol Beck (SVK)/ Leos Friedl (CZE) 67(4) 26

They were up with break in the first set 4-2 but from there they lost meekly ... Rohan was struggling to hold his serves.
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At $50K Sarasota Challenger, Florida, USA (Clay)

[QF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) bt Victor Estrella (DOM)/ Bruno Rodriguez (MEX) 63 26 15-13

[SF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs (4) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA)

Another very tight win for Harsh and Treat ... Today also they survived against unseeded pair ... Still not able to find the form they r looking.
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At $50K Zagreb Challenger, Croatia (Red clay)

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ryan Harrison (USA) bt (3) Nicolas Massu (CHI)/ Lukas Rosol (CZE) 61 60

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ryan Harrison (USA) vs (1) Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP)/ Santiago Ventura (ESP)

Surprisingly very easy and dominating victory over 3rd seed clay court specialists by Somi and his partner ... In semis they r facing top-seed Spanish pair.
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At $50K Raleigh Challanger,

[R2] (Q) Shikha Uberoi (IND,626) l (8) Carly Gullickson (USA,180) 67(3) 26

Doubles
[QF] Dominika Dieskova (SVK)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) bt (2) Alina Jidkova (RUS)/ Tetiana Luzhanska (UKR) 16 64 10-4

[SF] Dominika Dieskova (SVK)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) vs Kristie Ahn (USA)/ Nicole Gibbs (USA)

Shikha gave fighting performance against top-200 player in singles and in doubles she upset 2nd seed pair with her partner to moved in to semis.
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At $15K India F5, New Delhi

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Rik de Voest (RSA) bt (6) Murad Inoyatov (UZB) 61 60
(3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt (5) Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA) 63 75
Chang Yu (CHN) bt (Q) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) 36 61 61
(7) Karan Rastogi (IND) bt (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND) 63 0-3

Doubles Semi Finals
(3) Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA)/ Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA) bt Liang Chi Huang (CHN)/ Ouyang Bowen (CHN) 64 62
(4) Xin-Yuan Yu (Chn)/ V.M. Ranjeet (IND) bt (2) Vivek Shokeen (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) 64 36 10-4

Much anticipated match between Karan and Yuki ended when Yuki twisted his right ankle, he was leading with the break in second set after losing first set ... Ranjeet also joined Karan in the semis but facing top-seed Rik de Voest in the semis.
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At u14 World Junior Tennis (Girl) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Anqing, China

Quarter Finals
(4) India l (3) China 0-2

Rutuja Bhosale l Qiuyu Ye 16 57
Sneha Devi Reddy l Yihong Li 62 67(3) 36

Indian girls lost their match against higher ranked Chinese team ... Rutuja lost her singles match easily but Sneha had a chance to make it 1-all but after winning first set she lost control of the match in second set tie-break and then lost match after more than 2 1/2 hrs ... So with this loss India's chances of reaching World group of u-14 World Junior Tennis Championship got over.