Tennis News
At $75K Aptos Challenger, CA, USA

[R2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,105) bt Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA,226) 62 57 63

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,105) vs (7) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,175)

Somdev started positively with 2 breaks he won first set comfortably ... But in second set Alex take early break ... Somi broke back in 10th game when Alex was serving for the set at 4-5 ... Again Alex broke Somi's serve in 11th game and hold his serve to won second set ... In decider again Alex got early break, he broke Somi i the first game and take 0-2 lead ... But from 1-3 down Somi won next 5 games, in that breaking Alex's serve twice, to won set and match ... This was good win as last week Somi lost against same opponent ... Next in quarter he is facing another Alex, this time Britisher Alex Bogdanovic.
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At $25K womens ITF tournament , Woking, Great Britain

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Laura Robson (GBR) l Nigina Abduraimova (UZB)/ Tammi Patterson (AUS) 46 62 7-10

Sania lost in doubles quarter-final in super tie-break with Laura Robson.
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At $10K Great Britain F10, Frinton

[R2] Divij Sharan (IND,902) l (3) Josh Goodall (GBR,379) 76(2) 26 36
[R2] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,389) bt (Q) Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR,1769) 75 75

[QF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,389) bt (5) Blake STRODE (USA,488) 64 63

[SF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,389) vs (3) Josh Goodall (GBR,379)

Doubles
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Alex Golding (GBR)/ Thomas Knights (GBR) 63 64

[SF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Tim Bradshaw (GBR)/ James Ludlow (USA)

Good to see Vishnu winning these matches to moved into semis ... Divij produced good fight against Joshua, now interesting to see how Vishnu perform against Joshua in semis.
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Badminton News

Saina become WR #2 in newly updated ranking as Xin Wang and other Chinese players still avoiding to play any major tournaments ... Congratulation Saina for achieving another feat ... Also Gurusaidutt first time entered into top 40 world ranking, #39.