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Year end rankings of Indian players - 2017,

Men's singles players
116 Yuki Bhambri
148 Ramkumar Ramanathan
223 Sumit Nagal
243 Prajnesh Gunneswaran
374 N. Sriram Balaji
426 Sasi Kumar Mukund
511 Vishnu Vardhan
526 N Vijay Sundar Prashanth
542 Sidharth Rawat
597 Karunuday Singh
608 Arjun Kadhe

Men's doubles players (Top-200)
18 Rohan Bopanna
47 Divij Sharan
60 Purav Raja
63 Leander Paes
102 Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
116 Vishnu Vardhan
133 N. Sriram Balaji

Women's singles players (Top-800)
276 Ankita Raina
288 Karman Thandi
482 Pranjala Yadlapalli
525 Rutuja Bhosale
611 Riya Bhatia
628 Zeel Desai
736 Mahak Jain
740 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal
780 Kanika Vaidya

Women's doubles players (Top-600)
12 Sania Mirza
144 Prarthana Thombare
193 Ankita Raina
309 Karman Thandi
487 Pranjala Yadlapalli
556 Kanika Vaidya
588 Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal
595 Rutuja Bhosale

In 2017, Yuki and Ramk showed good progress including, RamK's win over Dominic Thiem and Yuki's win over Gael Monfils ... Both r having good chance of entering into top-100 ... Sumit Nagal is also showing heartening progress and can be in top-150 very soon ... In the doubles, Divij and Purav r establishing as regular tour players ... Vishnu-Bala r trying their luck and having good chance of entering into top-100.

In women's side, Ankita looks stagnant but Karman is showing lot of improvement and challenging Ankita for India's #1 ... Pranjala also improving and Mahak looks exceptional talent.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Navi Mumbai, India

[SF] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) l Diana Marcinkevica (LAT,294) 46 46

Doubles Final
Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO) l (2) Georgina Garcia Perez (ESP)/ Diana Marcinkevica (LAT) 06 16

[SF] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO) bt (1) Olga Doroshina (RUS)/ Polina Monova (RUS) 64 26 13-11
[QF] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO) bt Ganna Poznikhirenko (UKR)/ Valeriya Strakhova (UKR) 63 62
[R1] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO) bt (WC) Akanksha Dileep Nitture (IND)/ Saumya Vig (IND) 61 60

I was hoping a win for Ankita but she lost in the straight sets against Latvian Marcinkevica.

Pranjala and Tamara failed to challenge the 2nd seed Marcinkevica and Garcia Perez in their one-sided loss in the final ... Before that in the semis, they defeated the top-seed Russian pair in marathon match tie-break.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Navi Mumbai, India

[QF] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) bt Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,288) 75 75

[SF] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) vs Diana Marcinkevica (LAT,294)

Ankita scored a hard fought win over Karman for entering in to the semis ... In the both sets, Karman was 4-2 lead but both times Ankita made a comeback and won the sets 7-5 ... Next, she is facing Latvian Marcinkevica, who scored an upset win over 2nd seed.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Navi Mumbai, India

[R2] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) bt (Q) Ekaterina Yashina (RUS,546)
[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,288) bt (3) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,200) 63 60

[QF] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) vs Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,288)

Karman scoed a huge upset against top-200 Chinese girl Lu losing only three games ... Ankita also joined her into the quarters with comfortable win over russian girl ... So, all Indians quarter final is planned.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Navi Mumbai, India

[R1] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) bt (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,571) 63 75
[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,288) bt (Q) Sarah Beth Grey (GBR,604) 64 63
[R1] (WC) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,484) l (3) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,200) 26 06
[R1] (WC) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,740) l Estelle Cascino (FRA,415) 16 06
[R1] (WC) Akanksha Nitture (IND,UNR) l (2) Polina Monova (RUS,176) 06 06

[R2] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,276) vs (Q) Ekaterina Yashina (RUS,546)
[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,288) vs (3) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,200)

As expected, only two Indians scored a win in the first round ... This week, Ankita scored a win over Rutuja and also, the straight sets win for Karman against British qualifier ... Ankita will be faced Russian qualifier and Karman having a tough match against top-200 Chinese girl Lu, who scored a dominated win over Pranjala losing only two games.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Navi Mumbai, India

[R1] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,275) vs (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,571)
[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,285) vs (Q) Sarah Beth Grey (GBR,604)
[R1] (WC) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,484) vs (3) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,201)
[R1] (WC) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,740) vs Estelle Cascino (FRA,415)
[R1] (WC) Akanksha Nitture (IND,UNR) vs (2) Polina Monova (RUS,176)

Another match between Ankita and Rutuja, last week Rutuja defeated her in three sets ... Pranjala again having a tough match against top-200 Chinese opponent ... Karman is facing British qualifier ... Dhruthi and Akanksha having tough opponents.

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At $15K Egypt F38 Futures 2017, Cairo

[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Anwar Elkamony (EGY)/ Yacoub Makzoume (SYR) 60 60
[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Thomas Statzberger (AUT)/ David Szintai (HUN) 61 62
[SF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL)/ Lukasz Kozielski (POL) 64 63

Doubles Final
Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Oleksandr Bielinskyi (UKR)/ Ronald Slobodchikov (RUS) 67(1) 61 10-7

Arjun and Aryan lifted their second doubles futures title in two weeks ... They scored a comeback win over Russian-Ukrainian pair to win in the match tie-break.

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At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

Sania Mirza will not be taking part in the Australian Open due to a right knee injury ... She is taking call on surgery for a jumper's knee injury.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Pune, India

[QF] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,569) l Olga Doroshina (RUS,398) 46 46
[QF] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,286) l (2) Georgina Garcia Perez (ESP,238) 46 36

Karman and Rutuja gave decent performance against their higher ranked opponents in their losses.

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At $15K Egypt F38 Futures 2017, Cairo

[R2] Aryan Goveas (IND,757) l Pavel Krainik (CAN,899) 26 36
[R2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,612) l (Q) Dominik Barton (CZE,UNR) 26 46

Disappointing losses of Aryan and Arjun against lowly ranked players ... Arjun's loss was more shocking against unranked Czech qualifier.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Pune, India

[R2] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,569) bt (Q) Kaja Juvan (SLO,529) 46 62 63
[R2] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,286) bt Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,348) 61 61

[QF] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,569) vs Olga Doroshina (RUS,398)
[QF] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,286) vs (2) Georgina Garcia Perez (ESP,238)

Rutuja scored an upset comeback win over junior WR #5 Kaja Juvan and showed her first round win wasn't a fluke ... Next, she will be faced a tough challenge of in-form Russian Olga Doroshina, who was a winner and finalist in the last two weeks.

Karman scored a dominating win over top-350 Strakhova ... Next, she will be faced top-250 and former top-200 Spanish girl, Garcia Perez.

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At $15K Egypt F38 Futures 2017, Cairo

[R1] Aryan Goveas (IND,757) bt (6) Olexiy Kolisnyk (UKR,638) 61 76(5)
[R1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,612) bt Mazen Osama (EGY,908) 61 76(3)

Aryan started with the straight sets win over his seeded Ukrainian opponent ... Arjun also started with the straight sets win against former top-500 local player.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Pune, India

[R1] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,751) l (8) Mai Minokoshi (JPN,291) 67(4) 46
[R1] (WC) Riya Bhatia (IND,541) l (Q) Kaja Juvan (SLO,529) 06 46
[R1] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,569) bt (3) Ankita Raina (IND,275) 63 67(6) 62
[R1] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,286) bt (WC) Mahak Jain (IND,813) 62 64
[R1] (WC) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,502) l Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,348) 46 36

[R2] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,569) vs (Q) Kaja Juvan (SLO,529)
[R2] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,286) vs Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,348)

Rutuja scored a huge upset beating her senior compatriot Ankita in three sets ... Next, she is having real tough match against junior WR #5 Kaja Juvan, who proved too strong for Riya ... Karman also started with a comfortable win over Mahak and next, she will be facing Strakhova, who defeated Pranjala in the straight sets ... Dhruthi lost in straight sets in respectable score against top-300 Japanese opponent ... Zeel Desai withdrew from the tournament as her ankle twisted in the doubles match.

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At $15K Egypt F37 Futures 2017, Cairo

Doubles Final
Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Adrian Exposito (ESP)/ Diego Matos (BRA) 75 63

[SF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt (1) Karol Drzewiecki (POL)/ Szymon Walkow (POL) 76(5) 64
[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Roman Boychuk (UKR)/ Oleg Khotkov (UKR) 36 62 10-8
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Aryan Goveas (IND) bt Ivan Krivic (CRO)/ Neven Krivokuca (CRO) 63 62

Arjun and Aryan lifted their first futures doubles title ... In the final, they defeated Spanish-Brazilian pair in the straight sets on the clay.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Solapur, India

Doubles Final
(2) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) bt Maya Jansen (USA) / Erin Routliffe (NZL) 75 16 10-6

[SF] (2) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) bt (4) YeXin Ma (CHN)/ Kaylah McPhee (AUS) 63 67(7) 10-8
[QF] (2) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) bt Qianxin Kong (CHN)/ Jiakang Li (CHN) 61 76(4)
[R1] (2) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND)/ Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) bt Sindhu Janagam (IND)/ Arthi Muniyan (IND) 60 61

Pranjala lifted her 4th ITF doubles title of the year in Solapur partnering Ching-Wen Hsu ... They fought hard in the last two matches to come victorious.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Pune, India

[Q1] (16) Zeel Desai (IND,610) bt Snehal Mane (IND,1223) 63 63
[Q1] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,751) bt (14) Albina Khabibulina (UZB,604) 26 63 64

[Q2] (16) Zeel Desai (IND,610) bt (2) Samantha Murray (GBR,435) 75 26 64
[Q2] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,751) bt Emily Webley-Smith (GBR,545) 62 26 75

Zeel and Dhruthi qualified for the main-draw with an upset wins over British players ... Zeel defeated former WR #165 Samantha Murray and Dhruthi defeated top-550 Emily Webley-Smith in the three sets.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Solapur, India

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,570) l (5) Olga Doroshina (RUS,439) 26 16

The last week's winner Doroshina proved too strong for Rutuja..

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At $15K Egypt F37 Futures 2017, Cairo

[R1] (8) Arjun Kadhe (IND,613) bt Aryan Goveas (IND,759) 61 60

[R2] (8) Arjun Kadhe (IND,613) l Alexander Weis (ITA,1147) 61 36 67(8)

Arjun needs to win these matches to underline his improved game ... He missed few match points in his loss against Italian Weis after winning the first set ... Before that, he defeated his countryman Aryan losing a single game.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Solapur, India

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,570) bt (4) Ana Veselinovic (MNE,425) 46 64 5-2 retd.
[R2] (7) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,498) l Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (THA,596) 67(3) 75 26
[R2] Zeel Desai (IND,611) l (3) Dea Herdzelas (BIH,393) 26 75 36
[R2] (Q) Nandini Sharma (IND,UNR) l (6) Samantha Murray (GBR,440) 46 16

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,570) bt (5) Olga Doroshina (RUS,439)

Rutuja scored a comeback win over last week's finalist Veselinovic after losing the first set ... In the quarters, she is facing last week's winner Doroshina.

In the second round, Pranjala and Zeel lost in the three sets after losing the first set ...Murray proved better player for Nandini.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Solapur, India

[R1] (Q) Jennifer Luikham (IND, 1094) l (1) Diana Marcinkevica (LAT,287) 36 06
[R1] (7) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,498) bt (Q) Snehal Mane (IND,1222) 61 46 61
[R1] (WC) Mihika Yadav (IND,1057) l (8) Ching Wen Hsu (TPE,569) 76(5) 26 06
[R1] (Q) Nandini Sharma (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Maya Jansen (USA,UNR) 61 60
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,746) l (6) Samantha Murray (GBR,440) 26 36
[R1] Ramya Natarajan (IND,1011) l (Q) Ho Ching Wu (HKG,1216) 57 64 46
[R1] (WC) Soha Sadiq (IND,UNR) l (2) Panna Udvardy (HUN,350) 16 26

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,570) vs (4) Ana Veselinovic (MNE,425)
[R2] (7) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,498) vs Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (THA,596)
[R2] Zeel Desai (IND,611) vs (3) Dea Herdzelas (BIH,393)
[R2] (Q) Nandini Sharma (IND,UNR) vs (6) Samantha Murray (GBR,440)

Nandini scored much needed win and as this is the third tournament where she has earned ranking points, she will be in the ranking on 18th December's list ... Snehad surprised Pranjala after winning the second set but Pranjala responded winning the third set easily.

In the second round, the tough matches for our players ... On the paper, Pranjala having winnable match against thai girl ... Rutuja is facing last week's finalist Veselinovic and Zeel is facing top-400 Dea Herdzelas ... Nandini is facing former-175 ranked Britisher Murray.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Solapur, India

[R1] Zeel Desai (IND,611) bt Snehadevi S. Reddy (IND,1094) 62 36 4-2 retd.
[R1] (WC) Bhuvana Kalva (IND,UNR) l Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (THA,596) 36 63 16
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,570) bt Yexin Ma (CHN,759) 63 62
[R1] (WC) AkankshaDileep Nitture (IND,UNR) l Ksenia Palkina (KGZ,606) 16 36

Good win by Rutuja against in-form Chinese player, Yexin Ma ... Zeel was up with the a break in the third set when Snehadevi retired from the match.

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At $25K Indonesia F8 Futures 2017, Jakarta

Singles Final
(2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) l (1) Duckhee Lee (KOR,217) 36 64 67(6)

Doubles Final
(1) Justin Barki (INA)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (2) Sora Fukuda (JPN)/ Scott Puodziunas (AUS) 46 76(5) 10-4

Prajnesh lost close match against Duckhee Lee in the three sets ... After losing the first set he tried fightback winning the second ... In the final set also, he was an early break down 0-2 but broke back in the 4th game for 2-all ... In the tie-break, Prajnesh was leading 5-3 but lost focus from here to lose the match ... With these points he will be climbed around #245 ... So chances r high that he will be making cut for Australian open qualifying.

In the doubles, VSP with his Indonesian partner lifted the title ... They made an excellent comeback after losing the first set ... After winning the tie-break they dominated the match tie-break for the win.

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At Australian Open 2018 - Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off, Zhuhai, China

Men's Doubles Final
(2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) l (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 67(6) 36

Jeevan and Chris missed an opportunity of winning the wild-card for the Australian Open 2018 as they lost in the straight sets against Ratiwatanas.

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At $25K Indonesia F8 Futures 2017, Jakarta

[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,588) l (1) Duckhee Lee (KOR,217) 62 16 16
[SF] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) bt Renta Tokuda (JPN,603) 61 36 63

[F] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) vs (1) Duckhee Lee (KOR,217)

Prajnesh defeated in-form last week's winner Tokuda in the three sets, so now only one win away from a cementing Australian Open qualifying place ... VSP lost against Duckhee Lee after winning the first set.

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At Australian Open 2018 - Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off, Zhuhai, China

[QF] (Q) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,506) l (1) Soon Woo Kwon (KOR,168) w/o

Doubles
[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) 62 63

[F] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Bad day for Vishnu as he gave walkover to top-seed Korean in the singles ... And in the doubles, he and Bala lost one-sided match against Jeevan and Chris ... Jeevan and Chris will be facing experienced Ratiwatana for winning the main draw wild-card.

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At $25K Indonesia F8 Futures 2017, Jakarta

[R2] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) bt (Q) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1188) 64 64

[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,588) bt Cheng-Yu Yu (TPE,657) 76(4) 64
[QF] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) bt (6) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,605) 62 64

[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,588) vs (1) Duckhee Lee (KOR,217)
[SF] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) vs Renta Tokuda (JPN,603)

Prajnesh in the semis with two comfortable wins and facing in-form last week's winner tokuda .. VSP also jopins him with a win over Taipei player and will be facing top-225 Duckhee Lee.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Indore, India

[SF] Mahak JAIN (IND,809) l (3) Ana VESELINOVIC (MNE,425) 36 16
[SF] (4) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,498) l (2) Olga DOROSHINA (RUS,439) 36 57

Our both girls lost in the semis against higher ranked opponents

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At Australian Open 2018 - Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off, Zhuhai, China

[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,225) l Jurabek Karimov (UZB,614) 57 46

Doubles
[QF] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt (WC) Ye Du (CHN)/ Qun Gao (CHN) 62 64
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Yusuke Takahashi (JPN) 36 63 10-5

[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND)

Very surprising loss of Sumit against former top-10 junior player Karimov ... In the first set, Karimov broke Sumit in 6th game to lead 2-4 but Sumit immediately broke him ... When serving for staying in the set, Sumit failed to hold his service game and lost the set ... In the second set, Sumit broke Karimov in 1st and 3rd games to lead 4-0 ... But something went wrong from 4-1 and 40-0 as he lost six games in a row for losing the match ... He made too many unforced errors in this match ... So hopefully he wil end his season this week and take time off before taking off-season training.

Bala-Vishnu r in the semis with a comfortable win over local pair ... they will be facing Jeevan-Chris, who scored a comeback win over experienced Japanese players in the match tie-break.

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At $25K Indonesia F8 Futures 2017, Jakarta

[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,524) l (1) Duckhee Lee (KOR,216) 36 75 46
[R2] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) vs (Q) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1188) 64 1-2 (interrupted)

[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,588) vs Cheng-Yu Yu (TPE,657) 76(4) (interrupted)

Sid failed to complete the victory and lost in the three sets against Duckhee.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Indore, India

[QF] Mahak JAIN (IND,809) bt (1) Dea HERDZELAS (BIH,393) 63 64
[QF] (4) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,498) bt (8) Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB,605) 64 64

[SF] Mahak JAIN (IND,809) vs (3) Ana VESELINOVIC (MNE,425)
[SF] (4) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,498) vs (2) Olga DOROSHINA (RUS,439)

Mahak scored a huge win over top-400 Herdzelas in the straight sets ... In the semis, she is facing top-425 player Veselinovic ... Pranjala also scored a comfortable straight sets win over Khabibulina ... She will be facing Russian player Doroshina.

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At Australian Open 2018 - Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off, Zhuhai, China

[R1] (Q) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,506) bt (5) Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,262) 64 57 64
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,372) l (8) Hiroki Moriya (JPN,343) 57 06
[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,225) vs Jurabek Karimov (UZB,614)

[QF] (Q) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,506) vs (1) Soon Woo Kwon (KOR,168)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bye
[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bye

[QF] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) vs (WC) Ye Du (CHN)/ Qun Gao (CHN)
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Yusuke Takahashi (JPN)

A superb upset win by Vishnu against top-275 Taipei player in the first round ... Next, he is facing top-seed and top-175 Korean, Soon Woo Kwon ... Bala lost in the straight sets against former top-150 Japanese Hiroki Moriya ... Sumit will be starting his campaign from tomorrow.

In the doubles, our both pairs received bye in the first round ... In the quarters, Bala-Vishnu r facing local pair and Jeevan-Chris r facing experienced Japanese players.

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At $25K Indonesia F8 Futures 2017, Jakarta

[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,524) vs (1) Duckhee Lee (KOR,216) 36 75 2-3 (interrupted)
[R2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,588) bt (3) Ti Chen (TPE,320) 63 36 63
[R2] (7) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,429) l Cheng-Yu Yu (TPE,657) 26 76(2) 57
[R2] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,256) vs (Q) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1188)

[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,588) vs Cheng-Yu Yu (TPE,657)

VSP scored superb upset win over experienced Ti Chen ... In the quarters, VSP is facing Cheng-Yu Yu, who scored an upset win over Sasi in the three sets.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Indore, India

[R2] Mahak JAIN (IND) bt (5) Riya BHATIA (IND) 63 36 76(3)
[R2] (Q) Shrivalli Rashmikaa BHAMIDIPATY (IND) l (3) Ana VESELINOVIC (MNE) 26 36
[R2] (Q) Bhuvana KALVA (IND) vs (8) Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB) 61 16 16
[R2] (4) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND) bt Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND) 64 46 63

[QF] Mahak JAIN (IND,809) vs (1) Dea HERDZELAS (BIH,393)
[QF] (4) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,498) vs (8) Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB,605)

Pranjala defeated Dhruthi in the three sets ... Mahak scored an excellent upset win over her senior Riya in the second round ... In the third set, Mahak broke Riya in 12th game when she was serving for the match and then dominated the tie-break for the win ... Mahak will be facing top-400 Herdzelas and Pranjala is facing Uzbek challenge of Khabibulina.