Tennis News
At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Doubles
[R3] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (11) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE) 67(0) 5-3 Retd.

Mixed Doubles
[R2] Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (8) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 57 76(1) 2-10

Sania and Bethanie lost one-sided tie-break but they fought well and were double break up at 5-2 ... But after losing their own service game due to Bethanie's groin injury they conceded the match ... Tough luck.

Leander-Jelena lost in well fought match against Huber-Melo in MXD ... After losing the first set our pair fought back and won the second set after dominating tie-break ... But surprisingly they failed to create challenge in match tie-break and lost it winning only 2 points ... So with this Indian challenge got over in this French open ... Very poor outing for our all doubles pairs as they failed to cross third round.
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At $100K+H Caltanissetta Challenger, Italy (red clay)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Dusan Lajovic (SRB) l (4) Renzo Olivo (ARG)/ Marco Trungelliti (ARG) 67(7) 67(4)

Somi and his Serbian partner lost their first round match against 4th seed Argentine pair but both sets went in tie-breaks.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[R2] (Q) Ankita RAINA (IND,455) vs (5) Teodora MIRCIC (SRB,279)

Doubles
[R1] Sharmada BALU (IND)/ Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) bt Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Yuuki Tanaka (JPN) w/o
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) l (3) Veronika KAPSHAY (UKR)/ Teodara MIRCIC(SRB) 36 64 6-10

[QF] Sharmada BALU (IND)/ Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) vs (1) Valentyna IVAKHNENKO (UKR) / Kateryna KOZLOVA (UKR)

Ankita is facing 5th seed Serbian girl in the second round.
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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[R1] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) bt (WC) Jun ITO (JPN,UNR) 63 64

[R2] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) vs Hiromasa OKU (JPN,1551)

Expected straights sets win for Saketh ... Next he is facing another Japanese opponent.
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At $10K Spain F16 Futures, Santa Margarida de Montbui (Barcelona)

[R1] (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1044) l (1) Steven DIEZ (CAN,242) 26 06
[R1] (Q) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,980) l Nick LINDAHL (AUS,859) 57 67(4)
[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,800) l (2) Jose CHECA-CALVO (ESP,276) 36 26

This week Ashwin and Mohit Mayur qualified for main-draw but all had tough draw ... Mohit Mayur and Ramkumar faced top 2 seeds players in their respective matches and they lost those matches without much fight ... Ashwin faced former top-200 Aussie player Nick Lindahl and he gave creditable fight but lost in tight two sets.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Doubles
[R2] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Lauren Davis (USA)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 16 63 60

[R3] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (11) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE)

Sania and Bethanie made strong comeback after losing the first set ... They won the last set without losing a game ... In the third round they r facing good clay court pair of 11th seed Pavlyuchenkova-Safarova.
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At $75K Nottingham Challenger - 1, Great Britain (grass)

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,314) bt Greg Jones (AUS,298) 76(2) 46 61

[R1] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,314) vs (Q) Brydan Klein (GBR,275)

In the first set Praksha was holding his serve comfortably and missed couple of break points on Greg's serve in 3rd game ... Prakash take break in 7th game to lead 4-3 but Greg immediately broke back and made it 4-all ... Prakash dominated tie-break which he won losing only couple of points ... In the second set also Prakash take first break, he broke Greg's serve in 4th game to lead 3-1 ... This time also Pralkash failed to consolidate his break and lost his serve in next game and back on serve, 3-2 ... Greg take crucial break on Prakash's serve in 9th game to lead 4-5 ... Greg won the second set after holding his serve (after deuce).

In the opeing game of 3rd set Prakash saved a break point before holding his serve and immediately broke Greg in next game to lead 2-0 ... Prakash managed crucial hold in 3rd game after saving break point ... Prakash take full control of the set after again breaking Greg's serve in 4th game, 4-0 ... I m surprised to see Prakash's struggle on holding his own service game, Greg broke back in 5th game and made it 1-4, but Prakash was still holding one break advantage ... Again Prakash broke Greg and take 5-1 lead ... This time Prakash hold comfortably and completed win after 2 hours and 8 minutes ... In the last set which Prakash dominated Greg failed to hold his service game ... So great start for grass season for Prakash as he qualify for main-draw ... In the first round he is facing British qualifier Brydan Klein.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[Q1] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) bt Albina KHABIBULINA (UZB,UNR) 63 36 61
[Q1] (2) Ankita RAINA (IND,455) bt Arina FOLTS (UZB,UNR) 60 61
[Q1] (5) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,580) bt Farangiz SHAMSIEVA (UZB,UNR) 63 62
[Q1] (7) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,586) bt Jamilya SADYKZHANOVA (UZB,UNR) 62 61

[Q1] Sharmada BALU (IND,NR) l (1) Angelina GABUEVA (RUS,433) 46 26
[Q1] (2) Ankita RAINA (IND,455) bt Ya ZHOU (CHN,UNR) 61 64
[Q1] (5) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,580) l (12) Yi YANG (CHN,1023) 46 26
[Q1] (7) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,586) bt (WC) Ekaterina ILINA (UZB,UNR) 60 63

[R1] (Q) Ankita RAINA (IND,455) bt Daria MIRONOVA (RUS,412) 75 61
[R1] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,586) l Miharu IMANISHI (JPN,429) 36 26

Doubles
[R1] Sharmada BALU (IND)/ Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) vs Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Yuuki Tanaka (JPN)
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) vs (3) Veronika KAPSHAY (UKR)/ Teodara MIRCIC(SRB)

Terrific performance by Ankita, who take full advantage of weaker qualifying draw ... And after qualifying to main-draw she scored straight sets win over higher ranked Russian player.
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At $10K India F7 Futures, Chennai

Singles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (WC) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) 61 36 61
Jatin DAHIYA (IND) bt Rakshit RISHI (IND) 62 63
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND) 26 64 63
(WC) Vijay KANNAN (IND) bt (5) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) 36 76(8) 60
(4) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) bt (Q) Fahad MOHAMMED (IND) 64 61
(Q) Suraj R PRABODH (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 75 62
Chandril SOOD (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 76(5) 46 62
(7) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS) 63 61
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (Q) Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND) 63 64
Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) bt (Q) Sagar MANJANNA (IND) 76(1) 1-0 Retd.
Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) bt (Q) Rithvik ANAND (IND) 64 63
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 76(4) 61
(6) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 67(1) 61 62
Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) vs (WC) Abdullah SHAIKH (IND) 76(5) 53
(WC) Garvit BATRA (IND) bt (Q) Gurvinder MANN (IND) 61 63
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Suraj BENIWAL (IND) 4-0 Retd.

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 63 62
Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 63 36 10-5
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Amrit NARASIMHAN (USA) bt Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 64 63
Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) bt (WC) Arpit SHARMA (IND)/ Aaditya TEWARI (IND) 64 63
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (WC) Garvit BATRA (IND)/ Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 63 63
Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) bt (4) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 64 57 10-8
Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Sagar MANJANNA (IND) bt Fahad MOHAMMED (IND)/ Rakshit RISHI (IND) 61 57 10-7
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Rithvik ANAND (IND)/ Bharatram BALAJEE (IND) 64 61

In the singles veteran Vijay Kannan scored upset win over 5th seed South African ... Suraj Prabodh also scored upset win over Kunal Anand ... In the doubles good upset win by young pairing of Anvit-Tushar against 4th see Kaza-Tiwari.
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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[R1] Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) vs (WC) Jun ITO (JPN,UNR)
[R1] Neishit VAKIL (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Joshua CEPEDA (GUM,UNR) 63 62

[R2] Neishit VAKIL (IND,UNR) vs (6) Gengo KIKUCHI (JPN,755)

Vakil scored his 1st ATP point taking advantage of weak draw.
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At $10K Spain F16 Futures, Santa Margarida de Montbui (Barcelona)

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,800) vs (2) Jose CHECA-CALVO (ESP,276)

Very tough first round for Ramkumar.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Doubles
[R1] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Alize Cornet (FRA)/ Virginie Razzano (FRA) 63 64

[R2] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Lauren Davis (USA)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)/ Daniele Bracciali (ITA) 75 63

[R2] Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (8) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA)

Sania-Bethanie started with straight sets win over French pair ... In the second round they r facing American pair.

Lee and Jelena started with straight sets win in MXD first round ... Next they r facing 8th seed pairing of Liezel Huber-Marcelo Melo.
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At $100K+H Caltanissetta Challenger, Italy

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) vs (PR) Eduardo Schwank (ARG,316)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Dusan Lajovic (SRB) vs (4) Renzo Olivo (ARG)/ Marco Trungelliti (ARG)

Buji is playing against former top-50 Argentine player in the first round but after injury break Schwank is on the tour from May ... So after good performance at French open Buji is favorite in this match.

Buji is playing doubles with Serbian partner, Dusan Lajovic, and they r facing 4th seed Argentine pair.
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At $75K Nottingham Challenger - 1, Great Britain

[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,314) bt (WC) Alexander Jhun (GBR,1872) 62 60

[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,314) bt (1) Dustin Brown (GER,191) 63 62

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,314) vs Greg Jones (AUS,298)

Expected easy win in the first qualifying round but next he faced top-seed and top-200 German Dustin Brown ... He scored superb confident upset win against Dustin ... Next match is against grass court specialist Aussie player.
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At $35K+H Furth Challenger, Germany (red clay)

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)

Divij-Purav pairing is back on the tour and they r playing in Furth challenger ... They r 3rd seed and facing Andrej Martin-Hans Podlipnik-Castillo in the first round.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Doubles
[R2] (9) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 75 46 67(6)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (7) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 46 61 9-11
[R1] Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE) 46 46

Turned to be disappointing day for Indian players ... Leander lost his doubles match pairing Jurgen against South American pair ... Lee-Jurgen had many chances but they failed to convert it ... They created 16 break point chances and managed to convert only two ... In the final set also Lee-Jurgen had four match point chances which they failed to convert.

In mixed doubles, Rohan-Ashleigh lost in straight sets against Czech pair ... After losing the first set Mahesh-Casey won the second set comfortably but they lost closely fought match tie-break.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok


Singles Final
(3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt (Q) Andrew HARRIS (AUS,1598) 76(4) 61

Saketh wins his first futures title outside of Indian beating Aussie qualifier in straight sets ... Hopefully Saketh built on this platform and move to bigger challenger level without much problem.
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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles Final
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 76(5) 63

Turned to be terrific week for Prajnesh as he lifted his first ITF futures title beating Vijaynt in straight sets ... He wins this title beating two in-form Indian players in his final 2 matches.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE) l Cara Black (ZIM)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)26 36

Junior Qualifying
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,78) l (16) Simon Friis Soendergaard (DEN,71) 16 16
[Q1] (13) Snehadevi S Reddy (IND,76) l (WC) Naiktha Bains (AUS,103) 36 46
[Q1] Simran Kaur Sethi (IND,114) l (9) Beatrecia Lombardo (ITA,65) 26 36

Disappointing loss for top-seed Sania and Robert, who managed to win only 5 games in their first round against Cara and Aisam.

Our all junior players lost in the first qualifying round ... Surprised to see this one-sided loss of Sumit against similar ranked Danish opponent ... This 15 yrs old Naiktha Bains looks very talented.
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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles Semi Finals
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) 76(5) 76(6)
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) 75 75

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) 61 64

Prajnesh continues with his good run and scored upset win over Karunuday in tight two sets ... Karunuday was showing form as last week he reached the final at Thai futures and this week he defeated 2nd seed Jeevan comfortably but Prajnesh gave more solid performance ... Vijayant also kept his upper-hand over Balaji with another win though this time both sets went to tie-breaks ... So final is between Vijayant and Prajnesh.

In the doubles Balaji and Jeevan lifted the title.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt Jacob GRILLS (AUS,1086) 61 64

[F] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs (Q) Andrew HARRIS (AUS,1598)

Saketh scored another comfortable win over his Aussie opponent in the semis ... In the final he is facing Aussie qualifier Harris, who scored upset win over top-seed Udomchoke in the quarter-final.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[QF] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) l Yi YANG (CHN,1023) 16 46

Sharmada failed to continue with her good run and lost against her Chinese opponent..

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Junior Qualifying
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,78) vs (16) Simon Friis Soendergaard (DEN,71)
[Q1] (13) Snehadevi S Reddy (IND,76) vs (WC) Naiktha Bains (AUS,103)
[Q1] Simran Kaur Sethi (IND,114) vs (9) Beatrecia Lombardo (ITA,65)

Junior French open qualifying draw is out ... Sumit is facing 16th seed Danish player in the first round and other seeded player in their draw is 8th seed/#59 ranked Tunisian Skander Mansouri.

13th seed Snehadevi is facing talented 15 yrs old Aussie player Naiktha Bains and 5th seed/#59th ranked Russian Alina Silich is another seeded from her draw ... Tough match for Simran against Italian girl.
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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (6) Bumpei SATO (JPN) 16 63 63
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) 60 63
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (4) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) 75 76(3)
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 63 63

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 62 76(3)
(3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt (2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 67(4) 62 10-7

All Indian semi-finals at Chennai ... Expected Karunuday's win over Jeevan but good upset win by Prajnesh over experienced and top-600 Matsui ... Vijayant proved too strong to Garvit and good recovered win by Balaji after losing the first set against Sato.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[QF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt (6) Yuichi ITO (JPN,638) 61 64

[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs Jacob GRILLS (AUS,1086)

With another comfortable win Saketh is in the semis ... In the semis he is facing Aussie 17 yrs old Jacob Grills, who upset 2nd seed Adam Feeney in the second round and 5th seed Niki in the quarters.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[R2] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) bt (2) Alyona SOTNIKOVA (UKR,363) 16 64 62

[QF] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) vs Yi YANG (CHN,1023)

Sharmada scored superb upset comeback win over top-400 Ukrainian ... That's also on foreign soil.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

[R2] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) l (2) Roger Federer (SUI,3) 26 16 16

As expected Roger came out all cylinders firing ... He broke Buji in 1st game to lead 2-0 ... After losing 8 points in a row Buji won his 1st point of the match on his serve in 3rd game ... Somi hold his serve on love and had couple of break points on Roger's serve but Roger hit couple of big second serve to hold ... Roger again broke Buji in 5th game to lead 4-1 ... After that both players hold their respective service game and Roger won the first set in 23 minutes ... In the second set Somi started with holding his service game but after that it was one way traffic as Roger won eleven games in a row ... He won the second set in 31 minutes ... Somi missed couple of game points in 4th game after leading 40-15 due to unforced errors ... At last Somi managed to win his first game of the third set in 6th game ... Roger won the third set in 28 minutes for one-sided victory.

In this match Federer played his A game ... He showed all range of shots from back of the court ... Played his powerful forehands and sublime backhands ... Roger was looking fit and played high quality tennis ... Roger is in great touch and with favorable draw he will be definitely in the final ... Today Somi wasn't played badly but FedEx was too good ... Somi hit few excellent passing shots and cross-court winners in this match.
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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles Second Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND) 63 62
(6) Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND) 64 60
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 62 62
(Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) bt (7) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 46 76(2) 76(5)
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (5) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) 62 64
(4) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 64 61
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 26 64 61
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 76(4) 64

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) 64 63
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (4) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 63 62
(3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 62 61
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 64 62

Another impressive win by young Garvit in very long match against Kaza, Garvit won last two sets in tie-break after losing the first set ... Prajnesh also scored upset win over South African ... Karunuday lost first set against Abhijeet before recovering.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[R2] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt (Q) Blake MOTT(AUS,1265) 64 63

[QF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs (6) Yuichi ITO (JPN,638)

Doubles
[QF] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) l Elbert SIE (INA)/ David Agung SUSANTO (INA) 46 16

Expected comfortable straight sets win for Saketh against Aussie qualifier ... Next he is facing Japanese opponent.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[R1] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) bt Polina MERENKOVA (UZB,UNR) 63 62

[R2] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) vs (2) Alyona SOTNIKOVA (UKR,363)

Good to see Sharmada is playing in Uzbek ... Last week also she scored first round win ... Here also she take advantage of weaker opponent.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

[R1] (9) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Nicolas Renavand (FRA) 63 63
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Jerzy Janowicz (POL) 57 46

Lee and Jurgen scored comfortable win in 55 minutes over local wild-card pair ... In the first set they broke their French opponents twice and saved a break point on their service game ... In the second set they broke French pair once and saved two break points before completing the victory.

But shocking and disappointing loss of 4th seed Mahesh-Rohan against Polish pair in 76 minutes ... I was hoping good performance by our pair as they reached in the final of Rome Masters ... In the first set our pair converted a single break point but Polish converted two from four break points ... And in the second set our pair failed to create any breaking chance other hand Polish pair converted one from two break point chances.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE) vs Cara Black (ZIM)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)
[R1] (7) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)
[R1] Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)/ Daniele Bracciali (ITA)
[R1] Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE)

Interesting pairing in the mixed doubles ... First time Sania is getting top seeding in the grandslam but she is with Robert having tricky first round against Aisam-Cara ... This time Vesnina is playing with mad Max so Lee is pairing with Jelena Jankovic ... Rohan and Mahesh having Aussie partners.
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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (WC) Saurabh PATIL (IND) 61 62
(Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (WC) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 60 46 60
Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND) 26 76(3) 63
(6) Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt (WC) U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 60 62
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 61
Jatin DAHIYA (IND) bt (Q) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 46 63 62
(Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) 76(3) 63
(7) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 26 76(1) 64
(5) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) bt (Q) Suraj BENIWAL (IND) 61 61
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) 64 57 76(2)
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (Q) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND) 61 62
(4) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 62 75
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (Q) Anvit BENDRE (IND) 64 60
Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt (Q) Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) 62 62
Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt (Q) Sagar AHUJA (IND) 60 62
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (WC) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 62 63

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 61 61
Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Tushar MANDLEKAR (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 75 67(4) 10-4
(4) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt (WC) Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND)/ Garry TOKAS (IND) 46 64 10-7
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Saurabh PATIL (IND) 63 63
Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND)/ Arpit SHARMA (IND) 62 62
(3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt (WC) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 61 62
Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 46 76(6) 10-8
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Rithvik ANAND (IND)/ Fahad MOHAMMED (IND) 63 62

Hard fought win for Prajnesh ... Also good upset win by 16 yrs old Garvit against Neeraj ... As per draw interesting quarter-final between Karunuday and Jeevan if both win their respective matches.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[R1] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt Phassawit BURAPHARITTA (THA,UNR) 63 62

[R2] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs (Q) Blake MOTT(AUS,1265)

Doubles
[R1] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (4) Hiroyasu EHARA (JPN)/ Sho KATAYAMA (JPN) 63 63

[QF] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) vs Elbert SIE (INA)/ David Agung SUSANTO (INA)

Expected winning start in the singles for Saketh ... In the doubles Saketh with American partner scored upset win over 4th seed Japanese pair.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Doubles
[R1] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Alize Cornet (FRA)/ Virginie Razzano (FRA)
[R1] (9) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (WC) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Nicolas Renavand (FRA)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Jerzy Janowicz (POL)
[R1] Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Aljaz Bedene (SLO)/ Grega Zemlja (SLO)

Doubles draw is out .. Our all pairs and players we r interested r playing in bottom (top) draw. Lee-Jurgen r facing local wild-card pair in the first round ... And they r in same draw with Aisam-Rojer, who can face Rajeev-Lukas in the second round ... Mahesh-Rohan r facing tricky Polish pair in the first round ... They can face 14th seed Italian pair Bracciali-Fognini in 4th round.

Sania-Bethanie r 7th seed and they r in top-draw with 3rd seed Petrova-Srebotnik ... They r also facing local French pair in the first round.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)


[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) bt (Q) Daniel Munoz-De La Nava (ESP,145) 63 63 75

[R2] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) vs (2) Roger Federer (SUI,3)

Buji continued with terrific run of victories in this French open ... Today's win against Spanish journey man showed us Somi's desire to learn tricks of playing on the clay ... This was his 4th win in a row ... Despite his service struggle he saved 15 break points from 16 he faced ... Next match is tough one as though Federer favor other courts over the clay still he is one of the top 5 best players on the clay.

Somdev won the first set with a single break on a single break point chance and other hand he saved 10 break points on his serve ... In the second set Somi broke Daniel in 7th game and then again broke him 9th game to win the set ... In the third set Daniel take first break in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... But from 3-5 down Somi made excellent comeback he broke Daniel in 10th game when Daniel was serving for the set ... Then after holding his serve in the 11th game Buji again broke Daniel when he was serving for staying in the match ... Somi completed his win in 2 hours and 40 minutes ... And book his next match against THE Roger Federer.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

[Q3] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) bt (8) Wayne Odesnik (USA,117) 63 64

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) vs (Q) Daniel Munoz-De La Nava (ESP,145)

Terrific performance by Somdev to qualify for French Open with win over clay court specialist American Wayne Odesnik ... In the first set Buji broke Wayne in 5th game and at 4-3, 0-15, there was rain break ... But after that Buji again broke Wayne in 9th game for winning the first set comfortably ... Buji continued to dominate the second set and broke Wayne in 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Buji lost his concentration in next few games and Wayne take advantage to broke back in 5th game to make it 3-all ... Buji again broke Wayne in 9th game to lead 5-3 but Wayne kept fighting and broke Buji in 9th game when he was serving for the match, 5-4 ... In 10th game Buji created pressure on Wayne's serve and broke his serve for this memorable win in 91 minutes ... In the first round Buji is playing another qualifier Spanish Daniel Munoz-De La Nava and winner between them face Roger Federer in the second round.
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At $690K Brussels Open (WTA Premier), Belgium (Red Clay)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt Liga Dekmeijere (LAT)/ Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 62 63

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) l Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Shahar Peer (ISR) 46 75 7-10

In the quarterfinal Sania and Jie scored comfortable win over Dekmeijere and Kalashnikova losing only 5 games ... But they needed to play their second match of the day after 90 minutes and they lost in the semi-final ... After losing the first set Sania and Jie fought back to won the second but Dabrowski and Peer proved better pair in match tie-break.
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At $10K Thailand F1 Futures, Bangkok

[SF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,900) bt (1) Adam FEENEY (AUS,299) 62 62

[F] Karunuday SINGH (IND,900) vs (4) Benjamin MITCHELL (AUS,373)

Impressive win by Karunuday against top-300 Feeney in one-sided match ... That's also losing only 4 games against very experienced Feeney ... In the final he is facing another Aussie.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) bt (WC) Quentin Halys (FRA,1068) 76(4) 63

This turned tougher match than Buji expecting against 16 yrs old local boy for entering into the final qualifying round ... Halys came out firing and broke Somi in 2nd game to lead 3-0 in the first set ... Somi broke Halys when he was serving for the set at 3-5 and managed to take the set in tie-break ... In the tie-break Somi was early break down but he immediately take mini-break back ... Somi take crucial mini-break on 9th point to take 5-4 and then won next 2 points on his serve for winning this set ... In the second set Somi broke Halys in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but Halys immediately broke back to bring the set on the serve, 2-all ... Somi take crucial break in 8th game to lead 5-3 and then hold his service game comfortably for winning the set and match in 95 minutes.
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At € 468K Dusseldorf Open, Germany

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Andre Begemann (GER)/ Martin Emmrich (GER) 46 26

Our pair failed to win the first round against German pair.
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At $10K Thailand F1 Futures, Bangkok

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,900) bt (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) 75 64

[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,900) vs (6) Takuto NIKI (JPN,614)

Doubles
[QF] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (ALT) Jaymon CRABB (AUS)/ Dominik HRBATY (SVK) 64 26 10-5

[SF] Patrick DAVIDSON (USA)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) vs (2) Takuto NIKI (JPN)/ Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)

Big upset win by Karunuday over Saketh in tight two sets ... Next he is facing 6th seed Japanese opponent.

Saketh is in the semis of the doubles with his American partner.

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At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) bt (21) Matteo Viola (ITA,132) 64 16 64

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) vs (WC) Quentin Halys (FRA,1068)

In the first set Somi was break down at 1-3 but he won next 4 games in that breaking Matteo twice to lead 5-3 ... After that both players hold their respective service game and Somi won the first set ... In the second set Matteo broke Somi in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and then again Matteo broke him in 6th game and won this set comfortably ... In the final set Somi broke Matteo in 3rd game to lead 3-0 but Matteo broke him in 5th game and made it 3-all ... In 7th game Somi saved 3 break points from 0-40 before holding it and take crucial break in 10th game when Matteo was serving for staying in the match ... This was terrific win by Somi against Viola, against him Buji was lost in straight sets at Indian Wells qualifying in March ... Sweet revenge.

Next he is meeting top-40 junior and 16 yrs old local wild-card player Quentin Halys ... Hoping for easy win.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tpurnament, Tarakan, Indonesia

[R1] (Q) Ankita RAINA (IND,461) bt (WC) Deria NUR HALIZA (INA,UNR) 36 62 75

Doubles
[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND)/ Varunya WONGTEANCHAI (THA) l (3) Hao Chen TANG (CHN)/ Ran TIAN (CHN) 36 26

Unranked local player stretched Ankita after winning the first set but importantly Ankita completed fighting win over Deria
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At $10K Spain F11 Futures, Vic

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,804) bt Francesco PICCO (ITA,683) 60 76(4)
[R1] (Q) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,979) l (2) Gerard GRANOLLERS-PUJOL (ESP,287) 36 67(4)

Very good upset win by Ramkumar against higher ranked Italian opponent on the clay ... Also fighting performance by Ashwin against top-300 Spanish player on the clay.
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At $10K Thailand F1 Futures, Bangkok

[R1] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt (Q) Kenny BUM (CAM,1411) 63 60

[R2] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs Karunuday SINGH (IND,900)

Expected easy win for Saketh but next match is tricky one against current American college player Karunuday.