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

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 26 75 10-3

[SF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (1) Daniel Nestor (CAN) / Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 36 46

Produced good comeback victory in super tie-break in quarter-final against Spanish pair ... But in semis Nestor and Zimo were strong ... But this was Lee and Lukas's best performance on the clay in 2010.
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At $50K Sarasota Challenger, Florida, USA (Clay)

[SF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) l (4) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) 36 75 5-10

Consecutive 3rd match in super tie-break but this time Harsh and treat lost ... They started well winning first set but Battistone and DeHeart came back to won second set and then match in super tie-break ... So another disappointing week for Harsh and Treat.
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At $75K+H Busab Challenger, Korea

[SF] (4) Sadik Kadir (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Alexander Peya (AUT) 61 36 5-10

Purav and Sadik started strongly against 2nd seed winning first set easily but then Junaid and Peya take control of the match to won it in super tie-break.
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At $50K Zagreb Challenger, Croatia (Red clay)

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ryan Harrison (USA) l (1) Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP)/ Santiago Ventura (ESP) 36 57

Top-seed Spanish team turned strong for Somi and Ryan but they gave creditable performance.
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At $50K Raleigh Challanger,

[SF] Dominika Dieskova (SVK)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) l Kristie Ahn (USA)/ Nicole Gibbs (USA) 16 36

Shikha's good run ended in doubles semis.
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At $15K India F5, New Delhi

Singles Final
(1) Rik de Voest (RSA) bt (7) Karan Rastogi (IND) 75 62

Singles Semi Finals
(1) Rik de Voest (RSA) bt (3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 61 60
(7) Karan Rastogi (IND) bt Chang Yu (CHN) 63 64

Doubles Final
(4) Xin-Yuan Yu (Chn)/ V.M. Ranjeet (IND) bt (3) Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA)/ Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA) 36 61 11-9

Back to back final for Karan but again he settled for runner-up ... He performed lot better against Rik, due to bad service game Karan lost first game of the match but he kept pressure on Rik's serve and managed to broke him in 6th game ... In first set Karan was matching Rik with his all court game but Rik take crucial break in 11th game and hold his serve to won first set ... After that Rik played aggressive tennis and won second set with 2 breaks.

But positive performance from Karan, who is showing that he is coming back to the level of game before his injury.