Tennis News
At € 398,250 BMW Open, Munich, Germany

[Q3] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,109) l Alexandre Sidorenko (FRA,253) 16 26

Disappointing result for Somi, again lost opportunity of qualifying for main-draw ... Though Somi rised to his personal best in singles ranking, his result remain inconsistent.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, GA, USA

[R1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs Lester Cook (IND)/ Tim Smyczek (USA)

Hopefully Harsh and Treat perform well on US clay.
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At $100K Ramat Hasharon Challenger, Israel

[R1] Praksh Amritraj (IND,255) vs Nick Lindahl (AUS,192)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Harel Levy (ISR) vs Dudi Sela (ISR)/ Saar Steele (ISR)

In doubles Kash is 2nd seed with Levy ... In singles Kash is out of top-250.
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At $15K India F4, Kolkata

Singles First Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 62
(Q) Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE) vs Vaja UZAKOV (UZB)
Yannick NELORD (IND) vs Xin-Yuan YU (CHN)
(Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) bt (7) Yu CHANG (CHN) 61 63
(4) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) vs Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE)
Victor KOZIN (RUS) vs (WC) Akash WAGH (IND)
(Q) Kamala KANNAN (IND) bt (Q) Zhuo-Qing ZHOU (CHN) 76(6) 63
(5) Murad INOYATOV (UZB) vs (WC) Vikram REDDY B (IND)
(6) Karan RASTOGI (IND) vs (WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND)
(Q) Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 62 26 64
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) vs Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)
(3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) vs (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)
(8) Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) vs Ronak MANUJA (IND)
Peng GAO (CHN) vs (WC) Saurav SUKUL (IND)
(Q) Wan GAO (CHN) Vs Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA)
(2) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)

Doubles First Round
(1) GAJJAR (IND)/ RAJA (IND) vs CHANG (CHN)/ ZHOU (CHN)
GAO (CHN)/ YU (CHN) bt HSIEH (TPE)/ HUANG (TPE) 26 64 12-10
(4) KOZIN (RUS)/ UZAKOV (UZB) vs REDDY B (IND)/ SITARAM (IND)
MANUJA (IND)/ MARQUIS (IND) vs INOYATOV (UZB)/ NELORD (IND)
PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) bt TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND) 61 64
(3) DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) bt KANNAN (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 75 63
SIRIBUTWONG (THA)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt BHATTACHARYA (IND)/ SINGH (IND) 63 63
(2) SHOKEEN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt KHAN (IND)/ SUKUL (IND) 62 75

Good start for Indians on first day ... Our 2 players scored win over Chinese opponents, in that qualifier Shahbaaz Khan defeated 7th seed Yu Chang very convincingly.