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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

Doubles Final
(1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) 36 67(4)

Leander fail to win his 7th Chennai open title as he lose final with Raven Klassen in straight sets ... Lu-Marray broke Lee in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that advantage for winning the first set ... Lee-Raven raised their game in the second set but Marray-Lu didn't gave them any opportunity as they kept playing high level game ... In tie-break Marray-Lu take crucial break on Lee's serve with excellent net game on 9th point and then Lu hit big two serve for completing victory.
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At $519K Heineken Open 2015, Auckland, New Zealand

[R1] (4) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS)

Next week Lee-Raven are playing Auckland open and they r 4th seed.
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At $494K Apia International Sydney, Australia

[R1] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ David Marrero (ESP)

Rohan-Nestor r playing this week at Sydney International and they r 3rd seed.
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At $731K Apia International Sydney, Australia (WTA Premier)

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Marina Erakovic (NZL)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)

Next week Su-Wei Hsieh is not playing in Sydney WTA Premier tournament ... Sania is playing with her old doubles partner American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) 75 36 8-10

[F] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vsYen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

Purav-Adil fail to keep momentum after winning the first set ... Marray-Lu fought back and scored comeback win over Purav-Adil in super tie=break ... In the final they r facing top-seed Lee-Raven.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[SF] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)/ Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 63 63
[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)


Top-seed Lee-Raven score comfortable win over Spanish pair for entering into the final ... In the first set they broke Spanish pair twice and in the second set our pair broke them once for this win ... Now they r waiting for winner between Purav-Adil and Lu-Marray.
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At $1M Brisbane International, Australia (WTA Premier)

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) l Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 64 67(1) 8-10

Sania and Su-Wei lose this time in super tie-break against Garcia-Srebotnik ... Sania and Su-Wei started well after winning first set but afterwards Garcia-Srebotnik fought back ... Garcia-Srebotnik won the second set in tie-break and kept momentum to win super tie-break.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt (ALT) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) 67(4) 64 10-6
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Aljaz Bedene (SLO)/ Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 61 62

[QF] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) 16 61 10-7
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)/ Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 76(5) 46 10-4

[SF] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)/ Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)

Purav take opportunity with Adil and he is in the semis beating Stan-Agut in super tie-break ... After winning the first round easily Purav-Adil faced Stan-Agut in the quarters ... Purav-Agut won the first set in tie-break but Stan-Agut won the second set in tie-break ... Purav-Adil recovered and won super tie-break comfortably.

But match of the day was between Lee and Mahesh with their respective partners ... After struggling against Sood brothers in their first match Mahesh-Saki were underdogs in this match ... Instead they started on positive note and dominated from beginning to take lead 3-0 breaking Raven's serve ... Again they broke Raven in sixth game to won the first set 6-1 ... Saki was in amazing form with his serve and returns ... From second set Lee raised his level of game which lifted Raven's game ... Breaking Mahesh and Saki they take 5-0 lead and won this set 6-1 ... In super tie-break both pairs failed to win a point on other's serve till first 11 points ... Saki made error near net on Mahesh's serve to gave 7-5 lead to Lee-Raven ... Saki served facing 3 match points at 6-9 ... He served big serve saving first match point but while serving to lee he committed double fault which gave match to Lee-Raven ... Next they are facing unseeded Spanish pair.
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At $1M Brisbane International, Australia (WTA Premier)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) bt Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Arina Rodionova (AUS) 63 26 11-9

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) vs Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

Rodionova sister stretch Sania and Su-Wei to fullest as in super tie-break our pair need extra points for entering into the semis.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[R1] (Q) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,557) l Jiri Vesely (CZE,65) 16 26
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138) l (6) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,38) 36 46
[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,241) l Tatsuma Ito (JPN,93) 36 36

Doubles
[R1] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT)/ Lukas Lacko (SVK) 64 64

After exciting qualifying rounds this turn to be terrible day ... As our singles challenge get over in first round ... VSP fail to raise his game against rising Czech player Jiri Vesely ... RamK show his erratic game in his loss against Ito ... Buji tried hard in second set after losing first set but Lu played important points quite well to win in two sets.

In doubles winning start for new pairing of Lee and Raven against Lacko and Haider-Maurer.
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At $1M Brisbane International, Australia (WTA Premier)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) bt Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 75 63

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) vs Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Arina Rodionova (AUS)

New pairing of Sania-Hsieh have winning start ... In quarters they r facing Rodionova sisters.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[Q3] Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND,902) l (5) Aljaz Bedene (SLO,145) 06 46
[Q3] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,842) l (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,130) 06 06
[Q3] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,560) bt (4) Illya Marchenko (UKR,143) 26 76(7) 75

[R1] (Q) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,557) vs Jiri Vesely (CZE,65)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) 36 64 6-10

Vijay Sundar Prashanth produce one of the best performance of his career to qualify for main-draw of Chennai open ATP tournament ... After losing first set easily VSP again showed his fighting performance ... In the second set tie-break VSP saved 2 match points at 4-6 to win the set converting 2nd set point and took match to a decider ... In final set again VSP was break down but from 2-5 down he fought back to win next five games ... In that he broke Ukrainian Marchenko in 9th and 11th games ... This is terrific victory and that give him first round match against Czech player Jiri Vesely.

Other hand Sasi gets double bageled ... Kaza also got bageled in the first set but he gave decent fight in the second before losing it.

In the doubles Bala and Jeevan lose in super tie-break against Lu and Marray.
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At $498K Brisbane International, Australia

[R1] (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)/ Kei Nishikori (JPN) 46 63 6-10

Rohan-Nestor lose their first match of 2015 season against Nishikori-Dolgopolov in super tie-break.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[Q2] Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND,902) bt (2) Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,119) 64 67(5) 76(4)
[Q2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,390) l (5) Aljaz Bedene (SLO,145) 46 46
[Q2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,842) bt (7) Peter Torebko (GER,243) 64 16 62
[Q2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,652) l (4) Illya Marchenko (UKR,143) 57 46
[Q2] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,560) bt (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,249) 16 76(3) 63

[Q3] Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND,902) vs (5) Aljaz Bedene (SLO,145)
[Q3] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,842) vs (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,130)
[Q3] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,560) vs (4) Illya Marchenko (UKR,143)

Kaza continue with his terrific form and score big upset win over top-120 Russian Kudryavtsev in entertaining match ... After winning first set Kaza was 5-6 break down in the second but Kaza broke Kudryavtsev to make it 6-all ... Kudryavtsev won second set in tie-break but after losing set also Kaza kept his focus ... In final set he matched Kudryavtsev and this time won tie-break for completing upset win.

Vijay Sundar Prashanth score upset win over Yuki in comeback win ... Yuki dominated one and half set ... He won first set 61 and leading 3-1 in the second set but after that suddenly his game dipped down ... VSP took full advantage and used his huge service for his benefit ... VSP completed with winning third set comfortably.

Sasi also score upset win over top-250 German Torebko ... After winning first set Sasi lost second set cheaply against Torebko ... But afterwards Sasi recovered and won final set with double break ... Other hand Vishnu and Jeevan lose their respective matches in straight sets.

This is pleasent surprise that our three players in final qualifying round ... Moreover these are least expected players ... Now all three players need to cross final hurdle to play on ATP tour with another upset win over top-150 players ... Hopefully at least one of them croos the line.

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At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[Q1] (6) Luca VANNI (ITA) bt (WC) Ravi RASWANT (IND) 62 62
[Q1] (2) Alexander KUDRYAVTSEV (RUS) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 76(4) 57 26
[Q1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) bt Danai UDOMCHOKE (THA) 36 64 62
[Q1] Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Lakshit SOOD (IND) 62 62
[Q1] Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) bt Akash WAGH (IND) 61 60
[Q1] Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 61 63
[Q1] N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) 61 52 retd.
[Q1] (8) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 61 63
[Q1] Michael VENUS (NZL) bt Chandril SOOD (IND) 63 64
[Q1] Thomas FABBIANO (ITA) bt (WC) Rahul Robinson MANOAH (IND) 60 60
[Q1] (5) Aljaz BEDENE (SLO) bt (WC) Sumit NAGAL (IND) 62 60
[Q1] Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (WC) Fahad MOHAMMED (IND) 63 64

[Q2] (1) Damir Dzumhur (BIH) vs Michael Venus (NZL)
[Q2] (6) Luca Vanni (ITA) vs Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)
[Q2] (2) Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS) vs Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)
[Q2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs (5) Aljaz Bedene (SLO)
[Q2] (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) vs Egor Gerasimov (BLR)
[Q2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) vs (7) Peter Torebko (GER)
[Q2] (4) Illya Marchenko (UKR) vs Vishnu Vardhan (IND)
[Q2] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND)N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)

[R1] (6) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,38) vs (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138)
[R1] Tatsuma Ito (JPN,93) vs (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,241)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT)/ Lukas Lacko (SVK)
[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Alejandro Falla (COL)/ Alejandro Gonzalez (COL)
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Aljaz Bedene (SLO)/ Damir Dzumhur (BIH)
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

Vinayak Kaza score superb comeback upset win over very experienced Danai Ydomchoke ... Otherwise expected losses ... Sumit and Akash surprisingly lose their matches tamely ... In the second qualifying Yuki is facing tricky match against VSP.

In main-draw Buji is facing 6th seed and his hitting partner top-40 Lu ... RamK is facing top-100 Japanese Tatsuma Ito.

Good to see Lee changes his decision of not playing at Chennai open ... He is playing her with his new and 99th partner Raven Klassen and having little tricky first round match ... Mahesh is pairing with Saki and facing Colombian pair ... Purav-Adil are also having winnable match ... Jeevan-Bala having tough first round match against Lu-Marray.
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At $498K Brisbane International, Australia

[R1] (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)/ Kei Nishikori (JPN)

Rohan and Daniel are 2nd seed in Brisbane International. They r facing singles players, Nishikori and Dolgopolov in the first round.
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At $1M Brisbane International, Australia (WTA Premier)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) vs Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO)

Newly form pairing of Mirza and Hsieh starting their season with playing season opener at Brisbane ... They r top-seed in this WTA Premier tournament.

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At Chennai Open 2015, India

After Somdev and RamK receiving Indian wild-cards for the singles yesterday doubles wild-cards are announced ... Mahesh Bhupathi-Saketh Myneni and local pair N.Sriram Balaji - Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan are received doubles wild-card ... In that Mahesh is making comeback on pro tour after nine moths gap and hopefully he help Saki to defend last year's semi-final appearance points.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Pune, India

[R1] (1) Anastasiya Vasylyeva (UKR) bt (WC) Sharrmadaa Baluu (IND) 61 60
[R1] Ayaka Okuno (JPN) bt (Q) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) 62 64
[R1] (WC) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bt (Q) Katarzyna Kawa (POL) 62 61
[R1] (4) Ankita Raina (IND) bt (Q) Rutuja Bhosale (IND) 63 26 76(6)
[R1] (8) Veronika Kapshay (UKR) bt (WC) Mihika Yadav (IND) 75 75
[R1] Sviatlana Pirazhenka (BLR) bt (WC) Natasha Palha (IND) 60 76(2)

[R2] (4) Ankita Raina (IND,294) vs (Q) Kamonwan Buayam (THA,558)
[R2] (WC) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND,491) vs (3) Sofia Shapatava (GEO,228)

Rutuja and Karman qualified for main-draw with top-500 wins ... In first round Rutuja gave terrific fight to Ankita ... After losing first set Rutuja fought back to win second comfortably ... In the final set Rutuja take set to tie-break but Ankita won it in extra points ... In next round Ankita is facing Thai qualifier.

With Ankita only Prarthana qualify for second round ... She defeated Polish qualifier comfortably but next she is facing top-225 type Shapatava ... In other matches wild-card Mihika Yadav give fighting performance against 8th seed Ukrainian.