Tennis News
At $50K+H Scheveningen Challenger, The Netherlands

Doubles Final
(2) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Franco Ferreiro (BRA) bt (1) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Philipp Marx (GER) 64 36 10-7

Good start for Harsh and Ferreiro, they were early break down in the first set but they immediately broke back ... Then they take crucial break on Marx's serve in 9th game and then Ferreiro hold his serve to won first set.

In second set Ferreiro lose his service game early but Harsh and Ferreiro broke Marx's serve in 7th game to bring it on serve 3-4 ... But again Harsh and Ferreiro lose their service game and then missed 2 break point chances in 9th game to lose second set.

In super tie-break Harsh and Ferreiro take early mini-break but 2 times Ferreiro double faulted to gave it back ... But at 7-all Junaid double faults to gave crucial advantage and then Harsh served to win the title.

This is Harsh's first challenger title of 2010 so this is short European tour turning very benefitial for Harsh.
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At € 450K SkiStar Swedish Open, Bastad, Swedeny

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Michal Przysiezny (POL) vs (1) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Tommy Robredo (ESP)
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At $75K Aptos Challenger, CA, USA

[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,107) vs Yuichi Sugita (JPN,205)
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At $50K+H Rimini Challenger, Italy

[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Brian Battistone (USA) vs Roberto Bautista-Agut (ESP)/ Dusan Lojda (CZE)

This week Sadik is taking break (?) so Purav is playing with American Brian Battistone at Rimini Challenger ... They r 2nd seed.