Tennis News
At $220K Edgbaston WTA Open, Birmingham, England

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,94) vs (14) Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA,72) 64 (stopped due to rain)

Sania started serving with an ace ... She broke Tammi in 3rd game to take lead 2-1 but Tammi broke back on next game to bring back on serve 2-all ... Then Sania take crucial break in 7th game to take 4-3 lead then both players hold their respective service games and with that Sania take first set ... Rain started heavily when Sania had upperhand in the match, hopefully today she finish match as early as possible
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At $25K El Paso Womens ITF Tournament, Texas, USA

[R1] (Q) Shikha UBEROI (IND,583) l Petra RAMPRE (SLO,411) 36 26

Doubles
[R1] (LL) Treta Bhattacharyya (IND)/ Shivika Burman (IND) l Moe Kawatoko (JPN)/ Remi Tezuka (JPN) 46 26

[QF] (1) Shikha UBEROI (IND)/ Mashona WASHINGTON (USA) vs Moe Kawatoko (JPN)/ Remi Tezuka (JPN)

Was hoping upset as Rampre was lowest ranking direct entry into maindraw ... Treta and Shivika entered in doubles draw as lucky-loser but lost easily against Japanese pair, who next play in quarters against top-seed Shikha and Mashona.
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At $10K Indonesia F2 Futures, Tarakan

[R2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,826) bt (Q) Ruan Roelofse (RSA,1001) 61 63

[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,826) vs (Q) Ilia Starkov (RUS,1222)

Doubles
[SF] (4) MALIK (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) bt (1) LEE (TPE)/ MITSUHASHI (JPN) 75 36 12-10

[F] (4) MALIK (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) vs (2) DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA)

Prashanth reached into singles quarters with comfortable win against South African qualifier ... Interestingly not a single seeded player reached into quarter-final ... 4 qualifiers and 2 local wild-card players r in quarters ... Now Prashanth is 2nd highest ranked player behind Korean Jae-Sung An in the draw.

In doubles Vivek with Vijayant Malik scored tight super tie-break win over top-seed pair.