Badminton News
At $200K India Open, New Delhi (Super Series)

[R1] (5) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) l Taufik Hidayat (INA,26) 21-13 21-23 18-21
[R1] (Q) Prannoy H. S. (IND,72) bt Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,51) 21-17 22-20
[R1] K. Srikanth (IND,64) bt (4) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,6) 21-7 18-21 21-12
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,35) bt Tommy Sugiarto (INA,18) 21-16 21-17
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) bt Vladimir Malkov (RUS,58) 21-17 21-17
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,55) bt Takuma Ueda (JPN,21) 11-21 21-13 21-19
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,38) bt (Q) Chetan Anand (IND,99) 21-13 21-8
[R1] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,84) l (6) Kenichi Tago (JPN,8) 9-21 9-21
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,60) bt Kento Momota (JPN,46) 21-17 21-11
[R1] (Q) Subhankar Dey (IND,180) l Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin (MAS,81) 17-21 11-21

[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) bt Belaetrix Manuputi (INA,37) 21-12 21-15
[R1] (8) Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) bt Xue Yao (CHN,65) 17-21 21-18 21-14
[R1] Sayali Gokhale (IND,121) l (3) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,8) 8-21 12-21
[R1] Neha Pandit (IND,150) bt (Q) Trupti Murgunde (IND,167) 21-11 11-4 Retd.
[R1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,95) bt Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA,20) 21-14 17-21 21-19
[R1] Thulasi P. C. (IND,96) l (6) Eriko Hirose (JPN,12) 7-21 13-21
[R1] (Q) Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND,247) l (4) Minatsu Mitani (JPN,10) 10-21 20-22
[R1] (Q) Saili Rane (IND,144) bt Tanvi Lad (IND,105) 14-21 22-20 21-14
[R1] (Q) Rituparna Das (IND,318) l (2) Juliane Schenk (GER,4) 12-21 15-21

[R1] Rupesh Kumar K. T. (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) l (1) Mathias Boe (DEN)/ Carsten Mogensen (DEN) 9-21 15-21
[R1] Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND) l Ricky Karanda Suwardi (INA)/ Muhammad Ulinnuha (INA) 6-21 13-21
[R1] (Q) Raunaq Muradia (USA)/ Kamaldeep Singh (IND) l (8) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN) 14-21 11-21
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) bt Nandagopal K. (IND)/ Sunjith (Jr) S. (IND) 21-11 21-7
[R1] (Q) Kiran Kumar B. (IND)/ Anilkumar Raju M. (IND) l (4) Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN) 6-21 5-21
[R1] Manish Gupta (IND)/ Gaurav Venkat (IND) l Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN) 11-21 18-21
[R1] Ketan Chahal (IND)/ Deepak Khatri (IND) l (7) Thien How Hoon (MAS)/ Wee Kiong Tan (MAS) 2-21 11-21
[R1] Mayank Behal (IND)/ Tanveer Gill (IND) l Angga Pratama (INA)/ Ryan Agung Saputra (INA) 11-21 17-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l Maneepong Jongjit (THA)/ Nipitphon Puangpuapech (THA) 17-21 11-21
[R1] Srujan Nandaluri (IND)/ Vinay Kumar Reddy P. (IND) l Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Andrew Ellis (ENG) 8-21 14-21
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) bt (Q) Chaitanya Reddy K. (IND)/ Santosh Ravuri (IND) 21-8 21-14
[R1] Alwin Francis (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) l Takeshi Kamura (JPN)/ Keigo Sonoda (JPN) 18-21 14-21
[R1] (Q) Surender Rathee (IND)/ Neeraj Vashist (IND) bt Jayan James (IND)/ Dilshad K. (IND) 17-21 21-18 21-16

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Lauren Smith (ENG)/ Gabrielle White (ENG) 19-21 22-20 21-11
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) l Misato Aratama (JPN)/ Megumi Taruno (JPN) 19-21 10-21
[R1] Sanyogita Ghorpade (IND)/ Maneesha K. (IND) l (5) Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA) 9-21 20-22
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Yuki Fukushima (JPN)/ Reika Kakiiwa (JPN) 17-21 14-21
[R1] Daksha Gautam (IND)/ Ekta Kalia (IND) l Ye Na Jang (KOR)/ So Young Kim (KOR) 3-21 3-21
[R1] Jamuna Rani Rachapalli (IND)/ Leela Lakshmi Rachapalli (IND) l (7) Narissapat Lam (THA)/ Saralee Thoungthongkam (THA) 8-21 10-21
[R1] Varsha V Belawadi (IND)/ Nischitha G. M. (IND) l Tatjana Bibik (RUS)/ Anastasia Chervaykova (RUS) 5-21 11-21
[R1] Kristi Das (IND)/ Anees Kowsar J. (IND) l (3) Kyung Eun Jung (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR) 2-21 2-21
[R1] Jagriti Nashier (IND)/ Jyoti Nashier (IND) l (6) Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG) 4-21 8-21
[R1] Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND)/ Meghana J. (IND) l Suci Rizky Andini (INA)/ Della Destiara Haris (INA) 10-21 9-21

[R1] Nandagopal K. (IND)/ Meghana J. (IND) l Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Ye Na Jang (KOR) 20-22 14-21
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sanyogita Ghorpade (IND) l Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Miyuki Maeda (JPN) 14-21 15-21
[R1] Harinder Malik (IND)/ Ekta Kalia (IND) l (5) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Zieba (POL) 5-21 10-21
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) bt Andrew Ellis (ENG)/ Lauren Smith (ENG) 16-21 22-20 21-19
[R1] Abhinav Manota (IND)/ Rachita Sachdev (IND) l Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)/ Misaki Matsutomo (JPN) 6-21 8-21
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l (8) Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Gabrielle White (ENG) 15-21 16-21
[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) bt Chris Langridge (ENG)/ Heather Olver (ENG) 19-21 21-15 21-16
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Maneesha K. (IND) l Songphon Anugritayawon (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA) 21-19 19-21 16-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Sung Hyun Ko (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR) 16-21 25-23 19-21

[R2] (Q) Prannoy H. S. (IND,72) vs Taufik Hidayat (INA,26)
[R2] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,35) vs K. Srikanth (IND,64)
[R2] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) vs Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka (INA,28)
[R2] Anand Pawar (IND,55) vs (3) Yun Hu (HKG,5)
[R2] Sourabh Varma (IND,38) vs (6) Kenichi Tago (JPN,8)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,60) vs (Q) Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin (MAS,81)

[R2] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs Yui Hashimoto (JPN,44)
[R2] (8) Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) vs Sun Yu (CHN,83)
[R2] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,95) vs Neha Pandit (IND,150)
[R2] (Q) Saili Rane (IND,144) vs (5) Yeon Ju Bae (KOR,14)

[R2] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) vs (8) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN)
[R2] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs (3) Sung Hyun Ko (KOR)/ Yong Dae Lee (KOR)
[R2] (Q) Surender Rathee (IND)/ Neeraj Vashist (IND) vs (2) Kien Keat Koo (KOR)/ Boon Heong Tan (KOR)

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs (1) Misaki Matsutomo (JPN)/ Ayaka Takahashi (JPN)

[R2] Abhinav Prakash (IND)/ Kristi Das (IND) vs (1) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA)
[R2] Gaurav Venkat (IND)/ Juhi Dewangan (IND) vs Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Ye Na Jang (KOR)
[R2] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs (5) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Zieba (POL)
[R2] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs (4) Sudket Prapakamol (THA)/ Saralee Thoungthongkam (THA)

Kashyap failed to score his first win against Taufik ... Kashyap won the first game easily and after that next two games were closely fought ... In the second game Kashyap saved 2 game points and then had a match point but failed to convert it ... In the third game Kashyap was leading 18-16 before losing next 5 points and match.

But most shocking result of the day was from young 19 yrs old Indian K. Srikanth, who scored upset win over WR #6 Danish player Jan O Jorgensen ... His next match is against Guru ... Few Indians used home advantage for upset wins ... Guru scored his first win over Indonesian Tommy Sugiarto, against him before this he lost his last 2 matches ... Arundhati Pantawane and Anand Pawar also scored upset win over top-20 players ... Prannoy and Sai Praneeth also defeated higher ranked opponents ... Saina scored straight games victory ... Sindhu needed fightback after losing the first game against her Chinese opponent.

Sindhu is facing ane after another Chinese test ... In the second round she is facing Sun Yu ... Tough matches for Prannoy, Anand Pawar, Sourabh and Saili.

Tennis News
At $795K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany (red clay)

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (2) Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 76(3) 75

Sania and Bethanie scored tight two sets victory over 2nd seed Petrova and Srebotnik in the first round.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, USA (green clay)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,187) bt (LL) Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO,252) 64 Retd.

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,187) vs Facundo Arguello (ARG,193)

Somi's opponent retried from the match due to stomach cramps after losing the first set ... Next match is tricky against 20 yrs. old Argentine Facundo Arguello.
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At 2013 Junior Fed Cup (G16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group C
(3) India l Japan 0-2

Pranjala YADLAPALLI l Shiori FUKUDA 16 61 67(7)
Snehadevi REDDY l Nozomi OHYA 63 67(4) 1-2 Retd.
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Vanshika SAWHNEY vs Nozomi OHYA/ Ayaka HIGASHI

Indian girls lost against Japanese girls ... As Pranjala lost in the first rubber in close tie-break in the final set ... Snehadevi retired in the third set in her match against Japanese #1 Ohya.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures, Andijan

[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,526) l (1) Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS,188) 26 36

Lost against top-seed Russian in the first round.
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At $10K Spain F10 Futures, Les Franqueses Del Valles

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,778) l. (Q) Edualdo BONET-DE GISPERT (ESP,1317) 46 36

Ramkumar back in training at Spain but lost in the first round against local qualifier.

Badminton News
At $200K India Open, New Delhi (Super Series)

[Q1] Sameer Verma (IND,181) bt Mayank Behal (IND,396) 15-21 21-8 21-14
[Q1] Chetan Anand (IND,99) bt Abhimanyu Singh (IND,199) 21-17 21-12
[Q1] Oscar Bansal (IND,252) bt (4) Joachim Persson (DEN,65) w/o
[Q1] Subhankar Dey (IND,180) bt Rohit Yadav C. (IND,201) 19-21 21-18 21-13
[Q1] Arvind Bhat (IND,84) bt Poodchalat Pisit (THA,100) 22-20 21-19
[Q1] Aditya Prakash (IND,241) bt Prakash Jolly (IND,389) 21-11 Retd.
[Q1] Anup Sridhar (IND,109) bt Mohit Kamat (IND,218) 21-11 21-12
[Q1] Prannoy H. S. (IND,72) bt Vikas Harsha P. (IND,310) 21-9 1-0 Retd.

[Q1] Rituparna Das (IND,318) bt Nischitha G. M. (IND,UNR) 21-10 18-21 21-11
[Q1] Mohita Sahdev (IND,178) bt Yamini Sharma (IND,547) 21-12 21-15
[Q1] (3) Trupti Murgunde (IND,167) bt Riya Pillai (IND,503) 21-14 8-21 21-18
[Q1] Anastasia Chervaykova (RUS,242) bt Dhanya Nair (IND,162) 21-10 20-22 21-14
[Q1] Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND,247) bt (4) Mudra Dhainje (IND,175) 17-21 21-10 21-13
[Q1] Varsha V Belawadi (IND,787) bt Asmaa Badie Tawfeek (EGY,679) 21-19 21-14
[Q1] Saili Rane (IND,144) bt Nisha Karamchand (IND,UNR) 19-21 21-12 21-10
[Q1] Jacqueline Rose Kunnath (IND,316) bt Juhi Dewangan (IND,289) 21-10 21-16

[Q2] Chetan Anand (IND,99) bt Sameer Verma (IND,181) 22-20 11-21 21-13
[Q2] Subhankar Dey (IND,180) bt Oscar Bansal (IND,252) 21-23 21-10 21-16
[Q2] Arvind Bhat (IND,84) bt Aditya Prakash (IND,241) 20-22 21-14 21-18
[Q2] Prannoy H. S. (IND,72) bt Anup Sridhar (IND,109) 21-17 21-14

[Q2] Rituparna Das (IND,318) bt Mohita Sahdev (IND,178) 21-16 21-11
[Q2] (3) Trupti Murgunde (IND,167) bt Anastasia Chervaykova (RUS,242) 21-19 21-19
[Q2] Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND,247) bt Varsha V Belawadi (IND,787) 21-11 21-11
[Q2] Saili Rane (IND,144) bt Jacqueline Rose Kunnath (IND,316) 21-15 21-14

[R1] (5) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) vs Taufik Hidayat (INA,26)
[R1] (Q) Prannoy H. S. (IND,72) vs Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,51)
[R1] Srikanth K. (IND,64) vs (4) Jan O Jorgensen (DEN,6)
[R1] Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,35) vs Tommy Sugiarto (INA,18)
[R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) vs Vladimir Malkov (RUS,58)
[R1] Anand Pawar (IND,55) vs Takuma Ueda (JPN,21)
[R1] Sourabh Varma (IND,38) vs (Q) Chetan Anand (IND,99)
[R1] (Q) Arvind Bhat (IND,84) vs (6) Kenichi Tago (JPN,8)
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,60) vs Kento Momota (JPN,46)
[R1] (Q) Subhankar Dey (IND,180) vs Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin (MAS,81)

[R1] (1) Saina Nehwal (IND,2) vs Belaetrix Manuputi (INA,37)
[R1] (8) Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) vs Xue Yao (CHN,65)
[R1] Sayali Gokhale (IND,121) vs (3) Ratchanok Intanon (THA,8)
[R1] Neha Pandit (IND,150) vs (Q) Trupti Murgunde (IND,167)
[R1] Arundhati Pantawane (IND,95) bt Sapsiree Taerattanachai (THA,20)
[R1] Thulasi P. C. (IND,96) vs (6) Eriko Hirose (JPN,12)
[R1] (Q) Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND,247) vs (4) Minatsu Mitani (JPN,10)
[R1] Tanvi Lad (IND,105) vs (Q) Saili Rane (IND,144)
[R1] (Q) Rituparna Das (IND,318) vs (2) Juliane Schenk (GER,4)

[R1] Rupesh Kumar K. T. (IND)/ Sanave Thomas (IND) vs (1) Mathias Boe (DEN)/ Carsten Mogensen (DEN)
[R1] Sanjeeth S. (IND)/ Jagadish Yadav (IND) vs Ricky Karanda Suwardi (INA)/ Muhammad Ulinnuha (INA)
[R1] (Q) Raunaq Muradia (USA)/ Kamaldeep Singh (IND) vs (8) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN)
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) vs Nandagopal K. (IND)/ Sunjith (Jr) S. (IND)
[R1] (Q) Kiran Kumar B. (IND)/ Anilkumar Raju M. (IND) vs (4) Hiroyuki Endo (JPN)/ Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)
[R1] Manish Gupta (IND)/ Gaurav Venkat (IND) vs Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Noriyasu Hirata (JPN)
[R1] Ketan Chahal (IND)/ Deepak Khatri (IND) vs (7) Thien How Hoon (MAS)/ Wee Kiong Tan (MAS)
[R1] Mayank Behal (IND)/ Tanveer Gill (IND) vs Angga Pratama (INA)/ Ryan Agung Saputra (INA)
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) vs Maneepong Jongjit (THA)/ Nipitphon Puangpuapech (THA)
[R1] Srujan Nandaluri (IND)/ Vinay Kumar Reddy P. (IND) vs Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Andrew Ellis (ENG)
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) vs (Q) Chaitanya Reddy K. (IND)/ Santosh Ravuri (IND)
[R1] Alwin Francis (IND)/ Diju V. (IND) vs Takeshi Kamura (JPN)/ Keigo Sonoda (JPN)
[R1] Jayan James (IND)/ Dilshad K. (IND) vs (Q) Surender Rathee (IND)/ Neeraj Vashist (IND)

[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Lauren Smith (ENG)/ Gabrielle White (ENG)
[R1] Jwala Gutta (IND)/ Prajakta Sawant (IND) vs Misato Aratama (JPN)/ Megumi Taruno (JPN)
[R1] Sanyogita Ghorpade (IND)/ Maneesha K. (IND) vs (5) Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA)
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) vs Yuki Fukushima (JPN)/ Reika Kakiiwa (JPN)
[R1] Daksha Gautam (IND)/ Ekta Kalia (IND) vs Ye Na Jang (KOR)/ So Young Kim (KOR)
[R1] Jamuna Rani Rachapalli (IND)/ Leela Lakshmi Rachapalli (IND) vs (7) Narissapat Lam (THA)/ Saralee Thoungthongkam (THA)
[R1] Varsha V Belawadi (IND)/ Nischitha G. M. (IND) vs Tatjana Bibik (RUS)/ Anastasia Chervaykova (RUS)
[R1] Kristi Das (IND)/ Anees Kowsar J. (IND) vs (3) Kyung Eun Jung (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR)
[R1] Jagriti Nashier (IND)/ Jyoti Nashier (IND) vs (6) Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG)
[R1] Ruthvika Shivani G. (IND)/ Meghana J. (IND) vs Suci Rizky Andini (INA)/ Della Destiara Haris (INA)

[R1] Abhinav Prakash (IND)/ Kristi Das (IND) bt Ivan Sozonov (RUS)/ Tatjana Bibik (RUS) w/o
[R1] Gaurav Venkat (IND)/ Juhi Dewangan (IND) bt (6) Muhammad Rijal (INA)/ Debby Susanto (INA) w/o
[R1] Nandagopal K. (IND)/ Meghana J. (IND) vs Baek Choel Shin (KOR)/ Ye Na Jang (KOR)
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sanyogita Ghorpade (IND) vs Hirokatsu Hashimoto (JPN)/ Miyuki Maeda (JPN)
[R1] Harinder Malik (IND)/ Ekta Kalia (IND) vs (5) Robert Mateusiak (POL)/ Nadiezda Zieba (POL)
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) vs Andrew Ellis (ENG)/ Lauren Smith (ENG)
[R1] Abhinav Manota (IND)/ Rachita Sachdev (IND) vs Kenichi Hayakawa (JPN)/ Misaki Matsutomo (JPN)
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) vs (8) Chris Adcock (ENG)/ Gabrielle White (ENG)[R1] Diju V. (IND)/ Jwala Gutta (IND) vs Chris Langridge (ENG)/ Heather Olver (ENG)
[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Maneesha K. (IND) vs Songphon Anugritayawon (THA)/ Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA)
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Sung Hyun Ko (KOR)/ Ha Na Kim (KOR)

[R2] Abhinav Prakash (IND)/ Kristi Das (IND) vs (1) Tontowi Ahmad (INA)/ Liliyana Natsir (INA)

Lots of Indians r playing in this home Super series ... All qualifiers r Indians in men's and women's draw ... So many doubles pair .........

Interesting to see how many Indians manage tot take home advantage against their higher ranked opponents in the singles ... Crap draw for Kashyap, who is facing Taufik Hidayat in the first round ... Kashyap having 0-6 win-loss record against former WR #1 ... Guru is also having top-20 Indonesian Tommy Sugiarto with 0-2 win-loss record ... Saina is having tricky draw and Sindhu is facing lower ranked Chinese opponent in the first round.

Tennis News
At 2013 Junior Davis Cup (B16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group D
(4) India bt Indonesia 3-0

Garvit BATRA bt Muhammad Iqbal ANSHORI 62 61
Sumit NAGAL bt Ignatius Anthony SUSANTO 62 60
Sumit NAGAL/ Garvit BATRA bt Muhammad Iqbal ANSHORI/ Tio Juliandi HUTAHARUK 64 60

Expected wining start for Indian boys against Indonesian boys.
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At 2013 Junior Fed Cup (G16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group C
(3) India bt Singapore 3-0

Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Joanne, Wei Ling KOH 62 60
Snehadevi REDDY bt Geraldine ANG 60 63
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Vanshika SAWHNEY bt Geraldine ANG/ Angela Shan Min LIM 64 61

Our girls also having winning start against Singapore ... Next they r facing Japanese girls, who today scored upset win over 6th seed Hong Kong.
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At $795K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany (red clay)

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (2) Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

This week Sania is playing with Bethanie at Stuttgart open ... They r facing 2nd seed Petrova and Srebotnik in the first round.
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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA


Doubles Final
(Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt Steve Johnson (USA)/ Bradley Klahn (USA) 67(5) 76(3) 11-9

Somi and Bozo lifted the doubles title in very tight match ... This was Somi's first challenger doubles title ... After losing the first set in tie-break Buji and Bozo won the second set in tie-break ... They needed extra points in match tie-break to lift the title beating Johnson and Klahn.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, USA (green clay)

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs Tennys Sandgren (USA)/ Rhyne Williams (USA)

This week also Somi and Bozo r playing doubles and facing local pair in the first round.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Lucknow

First Round
(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Anushka BHARGAVA (IND) 60 61
Preethi UJJINI (IND) bt Victoria CHEHAL (IND) 75 76(3)
Tanvee BOSE (IND) bt Arushi BHASIN (IND) 75 06 64
Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) bt (5) Natasha PALHA (IND) 57 63 64
(4) Shweta RANA (IND) bt Shubhi DWIVEDI (IND) 61 61
Smriti JOON (IND) bt Niku AMIN (IND) 63 60
Shreya PASRICHA (IND) bt Seema KUMARI (IND) 61 3-0 Retd
Simran Kaur SETHI (IND) bt (7) Angelique SVINOS (AUS) 63 75
(6) Eetee MAHETA (IND) bt Riya BHATIA (IND) 76(7) 26 64
Damini SHARMA (IND) bt Protiksha SHARMA (IND) 61 61
Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) bt Anjana KOMPALLY (IND) 63 36 60
(3) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Amrita MUKHERJEE (IND) 63 63
(8) Emi MUTAGUCHI (JPN) bt Angella RAMAN (IND) 61 60
Bhuvana KALVA (IND) bt Vaniya DANGWAL (IND) 61 75
Sharon Sanchana PAUL (IND) bt Xi-Yao WANG (CHN) 64 63
Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) bt Eeshita PANDE (IND) 61 61

Last week's finalist Natasha Palha and semi-finalist Australian Angelique Svinos lost in the first round ... Otherwise expected results.

Tennis News
At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[SF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) l (Q) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,271) 63 16 36

It was bad day at the office or Kuznetsov was playing in zone ... Not a bad week for Buji but I m disappointed as expecting double crown.

Somi started positively and won the first set easily but at that time Kuznetsov take medical break ... After that Kuznetsov was playing on different level and Somi struggled on the court ... He lost last 2 sets easily for surprising loss.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, USA (green clay)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) vs Qualifier

Next week's draw is out and Somi is playing qualifier in the first round.

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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[QF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) bt Mischa Zverev (GER,152) 64 62

[SF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) vs (Q) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,271)

Doubles
[SF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt (3) Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Simon Stadler (GER) 64 61

[F] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs Steve Johnson (USA)/ Bradley Klahn (USA)

In the first set Buji was leading 5-2 when Mischa take medical break which broke Buji's rhythm ... Buji lost his serve in 8th game but hold his serve in 10th game to won this set ... Somi gave more dominating performance in the second and broke Mischa twice to won it comfortably ... Next he is facing qualifier Alex Kuznetsov, who is also looking in good form.

Somi and Bozo scored comfortable win over 3rd seed Monroe and Stadler ... In the final they r facing unseeded American pair of Johnson and Klahn.
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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u- Girls, Kuching, Malaysia

For 3rd Place
(3) India bt (5) Thailand 2-1

Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Priyachanok SUKKANHA 62 60
Mihika YADAV bt Yinglak JITTAKOAT 62 62
Sruta Kirti GUNUGANTI/ Mihika YADAV l Yinglak JITTAKOAT/ Pichayatida JANDAENG 26 06

Well deserving third place finish for our girls with easy singles win by Pranjala and Mihika ... This was decent efforts by our girls, who performed as per their seeding ... Until August these girls having good chance to make some improvement in their games which will help them on the clay.
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At $15K USA F10 Futures, Little Rock

[R2] (6) Saketh Myneni (IND,434) l (Q) Jean-Yves Aubone (USA,1354) 16 Retd.

An injury struck at bad time when Saketh was showing some consistency in his results.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Chennai

Singles Final
(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (6) Natasha PALHA (IND) 63 61

Deserving title win for Ankita ... This was her 3rd final in $10K tournament in a row so at last she managed to lift the title.

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At $200K Badminton Asia Championships 2013, Chinese Taipei

[QF] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) l (7) Eriko Hirose (JPN,12) 19-21 21-16 11-21

Sindhu lost in three games against Eriko ... After losing the first game Sindhu fought back in the second ... Eriko take control of the final game from 5-all and in end won it convincingly.

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At € 2.65M Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monaco


[QF] Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 64 36 5-10

In the first set Lee and Jurgen broke Bryans twice and lost their service game once ... Crucial break came in 9th game and then our pair hold for winning the set ... Bryans won the second break with single service break in 4th game ... Bryans dominated match tie-break ... Lee and Melzer struggled with their 1st serve percentage in 2nd set, only 42% after solid 75% in the first set and Bryans take full advantage of it.
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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[R2] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) bt (Q) Ilija Bozoljac (SRB,332) 64 64

[QF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) vs Mischa Zverev (GER,152)

Doubles
[QF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)/ Cedrik-MarcelStebe (GER) 63 64

[SF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs (3) Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Simon Stadler (GER)

Somdev take first break in 3rd game to lead 3-1 but Bozo broke back in 6th game to make it 3-all ... After missing few opportunities Somi take crucial break in 9th game and after that hold to won the first set ... In the second set Somi take crucial break in 3rd game and kept that one break advantage for completing the win in straight sets ... Next he is facing German Mischa Zverev.

In the doubles Buji and Bozo scored comfortable win ... In end easy straights sets win in the singles and the doubles for Buji ... In the doubles they r facing 3rd seed Monroe and Stadler in the semis.
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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u- Girls, Kuching, Malaysia

[SF] (3) India l (1) Australia 0-3

Pranjala YADLAPALLI l Seone MENDEZ 57 46
Mihika YADAV l Aiava DESTANEE 36 16
Sruta Kirti GUNUGANTI/ Pranjala YADLAPALLI l Jaimee FOURLIS/ Seone MENDEZ 36 36

Australian side defeated Indian girls in the semis ... In the first match Pranjala lost against Aussie #2 Seone Mendez ... Pranjala gave fighting performance in 1 hour 45 minutes match ... Aussie #1 Aiava Destanee proved too strong for Mihika Yadav ... So Indian girls play Thai girls for 3rd position
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At $35K+H Mexico City challenger, Mexico

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) James Cerretani (USA)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) 26 64 1-10

Failed to overcome challenge of 2nd seed ... After losing the first set Purav and Divij won the second but Cerretani and Shamasdin proved too strong in match tie-break ... So with that Mexican challenger series is over for our pair.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Chennai

[SF] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (7) Barbara BONIC (SRB) 62 76(3)
[SF] (6) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Angelique SVINOS (AUS) 62 62

Excellent win by Ankita and Natasha over foreign players ... They r in well deserving title match.

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At $200K Badminton Asia Championships 2013, Chinese Taipei

[R2] (4) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) bt Han Chou Chu (TPE,189) 21-17 21-19
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,59) l (6) Zhengming Wang (CHN,9) 15-21 16-21
[R2] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) bt (3) Shixian Wang (CHN,6) 21-15 14-21 22-20

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG) 15-21 11-21

[R3] (4) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) l (15) Huan Gao (CHN,24) 19-21 15-21

[QF] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) vs (7) Eriko Hirose (JPN,12)

Sindhu lost in long 62 minutes match against Shixian ... Both players shared first 2 games which both players won leading from early ... In the final game Sindhu take charge from 8-7 ... She take 17-8 lead but from here Shixian tried fightback winning 8 points in a row to make it 16-17 ... Shixian had a match point at 20-19 but she failed to convert and Sindhu won next 3 points for excellent win over Shixian ... Her first win over Wang ... Next she is facing Eriko Hirose in the quarters, Hirose is leading 1-0 but that match was very close at China Super Series.

Expected win for Kashyap over Han Chou Chu but in end score was lot closer ... Next he faced Chinese test, Huan Gao ... Both shared 1-1 win but both matches went in 3 games but here Kashyap lost easily in two games ... Disappointing result.

Sai lost in straight games against WR #9 Zhengming ... Ashwini and Pradnya lost easily against Hong Kong pair.

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At € 2.65M Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monaco

[R1] Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) 62 63

[QF] Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
Lee and Jurgen scored comfortable win over Mahesh and Rohan ... In the quarters they r facing Bryans.
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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u- Girls, Kuching, Malaysia

[QF] (3) India bt (7) Philippines 3-0

Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Monica Therese CRUZ 61 60
Mihika YADAV bt Meredith JONES 60 60
Sruta Kirti GUNUGANTI/ Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Monica Therese CRUZ/ Rafaella Jean VILLANUEVA 60 61

Indian girls qualified for the World group with very dominating win over Philippines ... They lost only 2 games in three matches ... Real test in the semis as we r facing another in-form team top-seed Australia.
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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt (2) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS) 36 61 10-4

[QF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)/ Cedrik-MarcelStebe (GER)

Buji and Bozoljac scored excellent upset win over 2nd seed ATP level pair ... After losing the first set they came back strongly winning the second set easily and then dominated match tie-break ... Next they r facing Bogomolov and Stebe for place in the semis.
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At $35K+H Mexico City challenge, Mexico

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Miguel Gallardo-Valles (MEX)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 76(6) 63

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (2) James Cerretani (USA)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN)

Expected winning start for Divij and Purav, though they struggled in the first set ... Next tough match against 2nd seeds.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F1 Futures, Namangan

[QF] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,527) l Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,576) 57 16

Doubles
[SF] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) l Ti CHEN (TPE) / Marek SEMJAN (SVK) 46 06

But lost against local player Sarvar Ikramov and in the doubles also they lost in the semis.
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At $15K USA F10 Futures, Little Rock

[R1] (6) Saketh Myneni (IND,434) bt (Q) Spencer Feldman (USA,UNR) 63 61

[R2] (6) Saketh Myneni (IND,434) vs (Q) Jean-Yves Aubone (USA,1354)

Easy win for Saketh and next he is facing another qualifier.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Chennai

[R2] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Manya NAGPAL (IND) 60 60
[R2] (8) Eetee MAHETA (IND) bt Sansitha NANDAKUMAR (IND) 61 62
[R2] (4) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Anjana KOMPALLY (IND) 64 61
[R2] (7) Barbara BONIC (SRB) bt Smriti JOON (IND) 75 62
[R2] (6) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Vaniya DANGWAL (IND) 60 62
[R2] Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) bt Sharon Sanchana PAUL (IND) 36 64 63
[R2] Angelique SVINOS (AUS) bt (5) Shweta RANA (IND) 76(7) 16 62
[R2] Xi-Yao WANG (CHN) bt Varunya CHANDRASHEKAR (IND) 60 61

[QF] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (8) Eetee MAHETA (IND) 46 64 64
[QF] (7) Barbara BONIC (SRB) bt (4) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) 36 64 61
[QF] (6) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) 62 63
[QF] Angelique SVINOS (AUS) bt Xi-Yao WANG (CHN) 16 64 60

In the quarters Eetee stretched Ankita and Aussie Angelique defeated Chinese girl ... Expected win for Natasha but Prarthana lost after winning the first set.

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At $200K Badminton Asia Championships 2013, Chinese Taipei

[Q1] Sayali Gokhale (IND,119) bt Kavindi Ishandika Sirimannage (SRI,353) 21-16 21-14
[Q2] Sayali Gokhale (IND,119) l (4) Ya Ching Hsu (TPE,123) 23-21 10-21 10-21

[R1] (4) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) bt Ji Hoon Hong (KOR,106) 18-21 21-15 22-20
[R1] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,59) bt Mohamed Ajfan Rasheed (BAN,229) 21-10 21-12
[R1] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) bt Tsz Ka Chan (HKG,31) 21-18 21-19

[R1] Pranaav Jerry Chopra (IND)/ Akshay Dewalkar (IND) l Hung Ling Chen (TPE)/ Chia Pin Lu (TPE) 17-21 17-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Arun Vishnu (IND) l Bao Duc Duong (VIE)/ Hoang Nam Nguyen (VIE) 24-22 19-21 16-21
[R1] Manu Attri (IND)/ Sumeeth Reddy B. (IND) l (7) Xiaolong Liu (CHN)/ Zihan Qiu (CHN) 18-21 19-21
[R1] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) bt Pei Rong Wang (TPE)/ Kuo YU Wen (TPE) 21-12 30-29
[R1] Aparna Balan (IND)/ Siki Reddy N. (IND) l Hsiao Huan Chen (TPE)/ Chia Wen Lai (TPE) 16-21 17-21
[R1] Tarun Kona (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) l Liu Yi (SIN)/ Lei Yao (SIN) 14-21 21-16 18-21
[R1] Arun Vishnu (IND)/ Aparna Balan (IND) l Sheng Mu Lee (TPE)/ Wen Hsing Cheng (TPE) 16-21 21-14 14-21
[R1] Akshay Dewalkar (IND)/ Pradnya Gadre (IND) l (4) Markis Kido (INA)/ Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth (INA) 10-21 12-21

[R2] (4) Kashyap Parupalli (IND,7) vs Han Chou Chu (TPE,189)
[R2] Sai Praneeth B. (IND,59) vs (6) Zhengming Wang (CHN,9)
[R2] Sindhu P. V. (IND,16) vs (3) Shixian Wang (CHN,6)

[R2] Pradnya Gadre (IND)/ Ashwini Ponnappa (IND) vs Lok Yan Poon (HKG)/ Ying Suet Tse (HKG)

After the first round only expected names remain in the draw ... Kashyap had tough time against Korean Hong ... In the third game he won 4 points in a row from 16-19 and then converted 2nd match point ... Sai scored comfortable win and Sindhu also scored straight games win ... Pradnya and Ashwini needed extra point to win the second game.

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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[R1] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) bt (5) Jesse Levine (CAN,93) 67(4) 63 64

[R2] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) vs (Q) Ilija Bozoljac (SRB,332)

In the first set both players were holding their service games though Jesse was holding more comfortably ... In tie-break Buji take 3-0 lead but after that he choked up and lost 7 points from next 8 points to lose the set ... In the second set Buji stepped up his game and won the set with double break ... In the final set Jesse broke Buji in 3rd game but Buji immediately broke back to make it 2-all ... Buji take important break in 8th game to lead 5-3 but failed to hold when serving for the set, 5-4 ... Buji again broke Jesse in 10th game and completed another good comeback win against another top-100 player ... Next he is having interesting match against his Serbian doubles partner.

Interestingly Somi's top draw is wide open as all seeded players lost in the first round ... In the second round only 2 seeded players r remaining 6th seed Argentine Guido Pella and 8th seed American Wayne Odesnik ... Good opportunity for Buji to lift the title here.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F1 Futures, Namangan

[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,527) bt (Q) Timur KHABIBULIN (KAZ,1926) 64 63
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,504) bt (WC)Batyr SAPAEV (UZB,1298) 67(7) 76(5) 62

[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,527) bt (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,461) 63 61
[R2] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,504) l (1) Konstantin KRAVCHUK (RUS,188) 36 36

[QF] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,527) vs Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,576)

Doubles
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Sanjar FAYZIEV (UZB)/ Shonigmatjon SHOFAYZIYEV (UZB) 36 63 10-8

[QF] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (3) Egor GERASIMOV (BLR) / Andrei VASILEVSKI (BLR) 63 63

[SF] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) vs Ti CHEN (TPE) / Marek SEMJAN (SVK)

Winning start for Vijay Sundar and Ranjeet in the singles but next they had tough matches against seeded opponents.

Ranjeet scored dominating upset win over 6th seed Takeuchi ... Next he is facing local experienced player Ikramov, who upset 2nd see Ti Chen in the second round ... In the doubles also Ranjeet and Vijay Sundar scored upset win over 3rd seed pair.
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At $15K USA F10 Futures, Little Rock

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Patrick Davidson (USA) l (3) Ryan Rowe (USA)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 63 46 10-12

Saketh lost in close match tie-break against 3rd seed with his new partner Davidson.
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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u, Kuching, Malaysia

Group D

(3) India bt (6) Korea 3-0
Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Mijeong PARK 61 62
Mihika YADAV bt Soomin KIM 61 61
Sruta Kirti GUNUGANTI/ Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Soomin KIM / Juhui PARK 62 62

Our u-14 girls scored another dominating win over 6th seed Korean girls and topped the group ... In the quarter-final they r facing 7th seed Philippines.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Chennai

(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Rushmi CHKRAVARTHI (IND) 16 63 63
Manya NAGPAL (IND) bt Ann-Christin NILSSON (GER) 75 36 61
Sansitha NANDAKUMAR (IND) bt Zainab ALI SAJJAD (IND) 63 63
(8) Eetee MAHETA (IND) bt Neharika RAMA (IND) 62 64
(4) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Victoria CHEHAL (IND) 60 61
Anjana KOMPALLY (IND) bt Nithya Raj BABU RAJ (IND) 63 75
Smriti JOON (IND) bt Amrita MUKHERJEE (IND) 63 62
(7) Barbara BONIC (SRB) bt Bhuvana KALVA (IND) 64 57 63
(6) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) 62 75
Vaniya DANGWAL (IND) bt Nandini GUPTA (IND) 61 63
Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) bt Vasavi GANESAN (IND) 62 61
Sharon Sanchana PAUL (IND) bt (3) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) 26 60 64
(5) Shweta RANA (IND) bt Ashmitha EASWARAMURTHI (IND) 61 62
Angelique SVINOS (AUS) bt Megha SEHRAWAT (IND) 60 62
Varunya CHANDRASHEKAR (IND) bt Likitha SHETTY (IND) 62 64
Xi-Yao WANG (CHN) bt (2) Kyra SHROFF (IND) 61 61

Surprising loss of Nidhi against Sharon ... From her loss against Chinese player shows that Kyra is still not recovered from her injury.

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At € 2.65M Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monaco

[R1] Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Benjamin Balleret (MON)/ Guillaume Couillard (MON) 63 75

[R2] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND)

As expected Lee and Jurgen won their first round match and next they r facing Mahesh and Rohan.
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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

Doubles
[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt (2) Roman Borvanov (MDA)/ Marek Michalicka (CZE) 62 63

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs (2) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS)

Buji qualified for main-draw doubles draw with comfortable win over 2nd seed with Bozoljac.
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At $15K USA F10 Futures, Little Rock

[R1] (6) Saketh Myneni (IND,434) vs (Q) Spencer Feldman (USA,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Patrick Davidson (USA) vs (3) Ryan Rowe (USA)/ Artem Sitak (NZL)

In the first round Saketh is facing local qualifier ... In the doubles last week's finalist r playing opposite side of the net with different partners.
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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u, Kuching, Malaysia

Group D

(3) India bt Sri Lanka 3-0
Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Medira SAMARASINGHE 61 62
Mihika YADAV bt Rukshika WIJESURIYA 60 62
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Mihika YADAV bt Medira SAMARASINGHE/ Rukshika WIJESURIYA 61 60

(3) India bt Vietnam 3-0
Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Phuong NGUYEN 60 60
Mihika YADAV bt Tiffany NGUYEN 61 62
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Mihika YADAV bt Phuong NGUYEN / Tiffany NGUYEN 60 62

This week our under 14 girls r playing in Asia/Oceania final qualifying ... They r seeded third and are in Group D along with #6 Korea, Vietnam and Sri Lanka.

On the first day our girls defeated Sri Lanka easily and on the second day they scored more dominant win over Vietnamese girls ... Next match against Koreans is important for placing in the quarters.

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At € 2.65M Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monaco

[R1] Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (WC) Benjamin Balleret (MON)/ Guillaume Couillard (MON)
[R1] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bye

This week Leander is playing Jurgen Melzer ... They r unseeded and facing local wild-card pair in the first round ... In the second round they can face Mahesh and Rohan.

Rohan and Mahesh r in top-draw with Bryans but before them they can face Lee and Jurgen Melzer in the second round.
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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

Doubles
[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt (1) Christian Harrison (USA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 64 64

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs (2) Roman Borvanov (MDA)/ Marek Michalicka (CZE)

Buji is playing in doubles qualifying with Serbian Ilija Bozoljac ... They defeated top-seed in the first round and facing 2nd seed in the final qualifying.
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At $35K+H Mexico City challenge, Mexico

[Q2] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND,366) l Gianni Mina (FRA,812) 36 67(5)

Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Miguel Gallardo-Valles (MEX)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX)

Disappointed loss against former JR WR #1 for Kash ... He need to play US $15K futures or Indian $15 K futures series to move his ranking around top-300 before concentrating only on the challengers.

This week Divij and Purav r facing local wild-card pair in the first round but can face 2nd seed James Cerretani and Adil Shamasdin in the quarters.

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At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[R1] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,210) vs (5) Jesse Levine (CAN,96)

Good opportunity for Buji of opening the draw with upset win over Canadian Jesse Levine.
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At $35K+H Mexico City challenger, Mexico

[Q1] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND,366) bt Carsten Ball (AUS,706) w/o

[Q2] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND,366) vs Gianni Mina (FRA,812)

Carsten Ball gave walkover to Prakash due to stomach bug.
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At $15K USA F9 Futures, Oklahoma City

[SF] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) l (4) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,301) 67(3) 67(2)

Saketh had good opportunity of scoring upset win over Bogdanovic ... In both sets he was up with break 4-1 and 3-1 but gave chance to Bogdanovic for fightback ... Bogdanovic broke back to leavel and won both tie-breaks convincingly ... Still creditable performance by Saketh in this US futres.

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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u, Kuching, Malaysia

Final
(2) India l (4) Australia 0-2

Alex Solanki l Alex De Minaur 64 46 36
Nitin Kumar Sinha l Alexei Popyrin 62 26 36

After good performance I was also hoping for title ... Still creditable performance by our boys as they performed as per their seeding ... In the final they lost after winning the first set and both matches went for 2 hours and more ... They will definitely seeded for the World group but now between 5th to 8th seeds.
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At $100K Guadalajara challenger, Mexico

[SF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 67(2) 46

Divij and Purav failed to overcome big serving Croatian pair ... They lost in close match against Croatians.
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At $15K USA F9 Futures, Oklahoma City

[QF] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) bt (Q) Tucker Vorster (RSA,1044) 75 62

[SF] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) vs (4) Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,301)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Artem SITAK (NZL) bt Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Eric Quigley (USA) 75 61

[F] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Artem SITAK (NZL) l Jean-Yves Aubone (USA)/ Dennis Nevolo (USA) 16 57

Saketh continues with his good run and enter into his first semi-final in US futures ... Next he has tough challenger level match against top-300 type player ... In the doubles he lost in the final with Sitak.
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At $10K Qatar Futures, Doha

Singles Final
(2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) l (4) Marek Semjan (SVK,345) 63 6-6 (8-9) Retd.

In the first set Yuki take important break in 8th game which helped him for winning the first set ... In the second set Yuki take break in 5th game but Marek immediately broke back, 3-all ... In the tie-break Yuki was 6-4 up but wasted both match points ... Then he had couple of more match points Marek saved both ... At 8-9 Yuki got injured and retired from the match ... He had a chance to finished it earlier but now I m hoping nothing serious injury threat..

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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u, Kuching, Malaysia

[SF] (2) India bt (1) Japan 3-0

Alex Solanki bt Daisuke Sumizawa 61 61
Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Yunosuke Tanaka 36 61 62
Alex Solanki/ Vasisht Vinod Cheruku bt Daisuke Sumizawa/ Yunosuke Tanaka 62 64

Our boys r in the final with upset dominating win over top-seed Japanese team and with that they secure seeding in World group at Czech Republic.

In the semis first match Alex Solanki gave us positive winning start with dominating win over Japanese Daisuke Sumizawa losing only two games ... After that Nitin Kumar completed tie victory for Indians after scoring comeback win over Japnese #1 Yunosuke Tanaka ... Our boys won their doubles match comfortably ... In the final they r facing 4th seed Australia.
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At $10K Qatar Futures, Doha

[SF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt (7) Joris De Loore (BEL,565) 64 76(4)

[F] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) vs (4) Marek Semjan (SVK,345)

Loore gave tough opposition for Yuki before losing the semis ... In the final Yuki is facing Semjan.
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At $10K Vietnam F3 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,406) l (Q) Joshua Ward-Hibbert (GBR,1120) 57 67(3)

Really disappointing performance by Jeevan in these two weeks of Vietnam futures ... He need to improve his abroad record if he want to improve his ranking inside top-300.

Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand GP Open, Auckland

[QF] (3) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) l Xue Song (CHN,216) 12-21 10-15 Retd.
[QF] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,100) l (2) Jen Hao Hsu (TPE,29) 6-21 17-21

[R3] (3) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) bt (12) Ji Hoon Hong (KOR,106) 14-21 28-26 21-13
[R3] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,100) bt (6) Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,46) 21-19 21-10

Both lost in the quarters ... Ajay retired from the match in middle of the second game after losing the first game easily ... Arvind defeated Hsu in their last meeting but today he failed to produce challenge.

Before that Ajay needed to dig deep before completing this comeback win over Korean in the third round ... After losing the first game easily Ajay was again behind in the second game ... From 10-16 down Ajay fought back and caught with Hong at 19-all after winning 3 points in a row from 16-19 ... In extra points Ajay saved 3 match points before converting 4th game point ... In the third game both players were exchanging lead but from 11-13 down Ajay won next 10 points and completed hard fought win after 69 minutes ... Next he is facing Chinese Song.

In their previous two meetings in 2012 Arvind lost against Tedjono but this time he managed to turn table on him ... Arvind scored convincing win after winning close first game ... In the first game both players exchanged lead but were together till end ... Arvind won 3 points in a row from 18-19 for winning the first game ... In the second game Arvind take control from the beginning and won it comfortably ... Next he is facing Taipei's 2nd seed Jen Hao Hsu.

Next tournament for our players is Indian Super Series.

Tennis News
At $455,775 US Men's Clay Court Championship, Houston

[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) l Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP,103) 67(5) 06

Somi's struggled against Ruben continue ... In the first set Ruben was double break up, 4-1 ... Somi broke Ruben in 6th game and then again broke him in 10th game when Ruben was serving for the set ... In tie-break Somi was up 5-3 but lost next 4 points for losing the set ... In the second set Ruben proved too strong and won the set without losing a single game ... Disappointing loss for Somi against 100 ranked player.
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At $100K Guadalajara challenger, Mexico

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (3) Benjamin Becker (GER)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 64 36 10-8

[SF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Huge win by Divij and Purav over ATP caliber pair ... Rajeev is ranking top-50 in the doubles and Benjamin was ranked inside top-60 few months back ... Much needed confidence boosting win for Purav and Divij.

Next they r facing Croatian pair in the semis, who upset top-seed Ratiwatanas in the first round.
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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u, Kuching, Malaysia

[QF] (2) India bt (7) Chinese Taipei 3-0

Alex SOLANKI bt Pang Shuo YIN 61 62
Nitin Kumar SINHA bt Tsung Hao HUANG 63 36 61
Vasisht Vinod CHERUKU/ Alex SOLANKI bt Hsiang Chien WANG/ Pang Shuo YIN 64 63

Indian boys qualified for the world group at Prostějov, Czech Republic in August after reaching the semis ... In the quarters they scored 3-0 win over Chinese Taipei team ... But first time in the tournament we lost set in a match, our #1 Nitin Kumar lost 2nd set against Taipei #1 Tsung Hao Huang.

For us next match is important as top 3 teams from Asia/Oceania receive seeding in the final ... But we r having tough task as we r facing top-seed Japanese team, who lost in group stage against Hong Kong.
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At $15K USA F9 Futures, Oklahoma City

[R2] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) bt Ryan Rowe (USA,743) 63 75

[QF] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) vs (Q) Tucker Vorster (RSA,1044)

Doubles
[QF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Artem SITAK (NZL) bt Keith-Patrick Crowley (RSA)/ Matheson Klein (AUS) 64 62

[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Artem SITAK (NZL) vs Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Eric Quigley (USA)

Good win by Saketh over former college top-10 player Rowe ... Next he is facing South African qualifier, who upset top-seed in the previous round.
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At $10K Qatar Futures, Doha

[R2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt Jeroen Vanneste (BEL,745) 62 64

[QF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt Daniel Cox (GBR,614) 62 64

[SF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) vs (7) Joris De Loore (BEL,565)

Doubles
[QF] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) l (4) Peter HELLER (GER)/ Dominik SCHULZ (GER) 16 67(2)
[QF] Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Rudy COCO (FRA)/ Jules MARIE (FRA) w/o

[SF] Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) l (3) Joris DE LOORE (BEL) / Riccardo MAIGA (SUI) 67(5) 06

Yuki scored comfortable back to back wins and he is in the semis.
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At $10K Vietnam F3 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,406) vs (Q) Joshua Ward-Hibbert (GBR,1120)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Torsten Wietoska (GER) l (2) Joshua Ward-Hibbert (GBR)/ Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR) 36 62 8-10

Lost close match in the doubles.

Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand GP Open, Auckland

[R2] (14) Chetan Anand (IND,95) l Parinyawat Thongnuam (THA,173) 21-17 17-21 12-21
[R2] (3) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) bt Marius Myhre (NOR,125) 24-22 21-5
[R2] (5) Anand Pawar (IND,48) l Chia-Hsin Wan (TPE,121) 16-21 14-21
[R2] (4) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) l Beryno Jiann Tze Wong (MAS,176) 18-21 21-13 19-21
[R2] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,100) bt (Q) Kirtesh Dhindhwal (IND,UNR) 21-16 21-12

[R1] Sarada Jasti (IND,146) l (Q) Vicki Copeland (NZL,UNR) 21-18 17-21 17-21

[R3] (3) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) vs (12) Ji Hoon Hong (KOR,106)
[R3] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,100) vs (6) Andre Kurniawan Tedjono (INA,46)

Disappointing losses of all Indian players against their lower ranked opponents ... Shocking losses of Guru and Anand ... They need to overcome inconsistent performances to move ahead in the ranking ... Other hand Ajay and Arvind scored expected victories.

Tennis News
At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u, Kuching, Malaysia

(2) India bt (7) Korea 3-0
Alex SOLANKI bt Hyunjoo KIM 61 61
Nitin Kumar SINHA bt Sion KWON 61 62
Alex SOLANKI/ Nitin Kumar SINHA bt Hyunjoo KIM/ Jaewoo KIM 63 62

(2) India bt Philippines 3-0
Alex SOLANKI bt Jan Godfrey SENO 60 61
Nitin Kumar SINHA bt Jerome ROMUALDEZ 63 61
Nitin Kumar SINHA/ Alex SOLANKI bt Arthur Craig PANTINO/ Jan Godfrey SENO 63 61

(2) India bt Indonesia 3-0
Alex SOLANKI bt Yoga ARGI SYAHPUTRA 60 64
Nitin Kumar SINHA bt C. Alvin EDISON 60 61
Nitin Kumar SINHA/ Vasisht Vinod CHERUKU bt Yoga ARGI SYAHPUTRA/ C. Alvin EDISON 46 62 61

Happy to see our players r performing as per team ranking ... So with three wins we topped the group and facing 8th seed Chinese Taipei in the quarters ... The quarter-final win will secure place in the World group of 16 teams.
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At $10K Vietnam F3 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[R2] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,406) bt (Q) Laurent Lokoli (FRA,1165) w/o

Doubles Final
[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Torsten Wietoska (GER) bt Chih-Jen Ho (TPE)/ Jui-Chen Hung (TPE) 76(4) 76(4)

[SF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Torsten Wietoska (GER) vs (2) Joshua Ward-Hibbert (GBR)/ Andrew Fitzpatrick (GBR)

Lucky break for Jeevan as his opponent withdrew before the match ... In the quarters also he is facing winner between 2 qualifiers.

Badminton News
At $50K New Zealand GP Open, Auckland

[Q1] Kirtesh Dhindhwal (IND,UNR) bt Rhys Hopkin (NZL,UNR) 21-10 21-7
[Q2] Kirtesh Dhindhwal (IND,UNR) bt Niccolo Tagle (NZL,UNR) 21-19 21-10

[R1] (14) Chetan Anand (IND,95) bt Asher Richardson (NZL,428) 21-10 21-16
[R1] (3) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) bt Winson Neo (MAS,372) 21-5 22-20
[R1] (5) Anand Pawar (IND,48) bt Houwei Tian (CHN,196) 21-15 21-19
[R1] (4) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) bt (Q) Chance Cheng (NZL,UNR) 21-15 21-7
[R1] (Q) Kirtesh Dhindhwal (IND,UNR) bt Tony Fang (NZL,849) 21-10 21-11
[R1] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,100) bt Yu Fu Lim (MAS,473) 21-9 21-13

[R2] (14) Chetan Anand (IND,95) vs Parinyawat Thongnuam (THA,173)
[R2] (3) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) vs Marius Myhre (NOR,125)
[R2] (5) Anand Pawar (IND,48) vs Chia-Hsin Wan (TPE,121)
[R2] (4) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) vs Beryno Jiann Tze Wong (MAS,176)
[R2] (13) Arvind Bhat (IND,100) vs (Q) Kirtesh Dhindhwal (IND,UNR)

[R1] Sarada Jasti (IND,146) vs (Q) Vicki Copeland (NZL,UNR)

Winning start for our all players against their lower ranked opponents ... Unheard Kirtesh qualified for main-draw and scored victory over higher ranked local player in the first round.

Snooker News
At £1.1M World Championship 2013, Sheffield, England

[QRd 6] Aditya Mehta (IND,74) l Alan McManus (SCO,49) 9-10 (58-29, 42-70, 16-61, 77-60, 45-75, 92-0, 25-55, 67-14, 69-0, 80-17, 15-105, 21-65, 71-30 32-72, 13-53, 1-119, 56-32, 90-30, 46-56)

Heart breaking loss for Aditya against Alan McManus in the qualifying ... In last 3 games Aditya fought back winning two but lost close decider by only 10 points.

Tennis News
At $455,775 US Men's Clay Court Championship, Houston

[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Michael Russell (USA) l (4) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) 16 67(4)

After losing the first set easily Buji and his partner Russell gave fighting performance from 3-5 down in the second ... They managed to take set in tie-break before losing it.
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At $100K Guadalajara challenger, Mexico

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 64 62

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Benjamin Becker (GER)/ Rajeev Ram (USA)

Dominating winning start over experienced doubles players ... Really happy to see Divij and Purav r showing consistency in their performance.

Next is really tough one against Rajeev and Benjamin but sooner than later they start to win these matches.
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At $15K USA F9 Futures, Oklahoma City

[R1] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) bt Keith-Patrick Crowley (RSA,778) 60 4-0 Retd.

[R2] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,433) vs Ryan Rowe (USA,743)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) bt Vahid Mirzadeh (USA)/ Ryan Rowe (USA) 63 67(6) 10-8

[QF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Artem SITAK (NZL) vs Keith-Patrick Crowley (RSA)/ Matheson Klein (AUS)

Saketh take full advantage of his injured opponent and won 10 games in a row before Crowley retired from the match ... Saketh and Sitak had tough doubles win against American pair.
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At $10K Qatar Futures, Doha

[R1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt (WC) Abdulla Al Mohamoud (QAT,UNR) 60 61
[R1] (Q) Kunal Anand (IND,1391) l (8) Daniel Cox (GBR,618) 16 16
[R1] Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND,791) l (Q) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,1168) 26 46

[R2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) vs Jeroen Vanneste (BEL,745)

Doubles
[R1] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (WC) Tinotenda CHANAKIRA (ZIM)/ Mohammed REDA (KUW) 60 61
[R1] Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt (WC) Jassem AL ZEYARA (QAT)/ Abdullah SHANNAN ALHARRASI (QAT) 60 63

[QF] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) vs (4) Peter HELLER (GER)/ Dominik SCHULZ (GER)
[QF] Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) vs Rudy COCO (FRA)/ Jules MARIE (FRA)

Expected dominating win for Yuki but disappointing loss for Ashwin against French qualifier.
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At $10K Vietnam F3 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,406) bt (WC) Thien Nguyen Hoang (VIE,1463) 63 75

[R2] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,406) vs (Q) Laurent Lokoli (FRA,1165)

Doubles Final
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Torsten Wietoska (GER) bt Roy Hobbs (SIN)/ Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) 75 62

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Torsten Wietoska (GER) vs Chih-Jen Ho (TPE)/ Jui-Chen Hung (TPE)

Expected easy wins for Jeevan.

Chess News
At the World Chess Championship 2013,

As per report Chennai is decided venue for much anticipated match between World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger and WR #1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in November 6-26 ... Tamilnadu government allotted Rupees 29 crores (5.3 million US Dollars) for this event.

Snooker News
At £1.1M World Championship 2013, Sheffield, England

[QRd 5] Aditya Mehta (IND,74) bt Daniel Wells (WAL,85) 10-7 (83-39, 43-56, 0-81, 73-17, 83-43, 17-107, 13-72, 70-37, 36-77, 76-10, 71-50, 80-0, 33-67, 48-80, 75-15, 94-0, 66-7)
[QRd 5] Pankaj Advani (IND,72) l (A) Joe Swail (NIR) 8-10 (37-77, 14-82, 0-78, 78-12, 36-67, 64-50, 100-18, 59-44, 18-57, 83-15, 64-23, 64-48, 1-67, 51-70, 34-62, 59-17, 50-78, 25-72)

[QRd 6] Aditya Mehta (IND,74) vs Alan McManus (SCO,49)

In World Championship fifth qualifying round Pankaj lost close match against an amateur Northern Irish player, Joe Swail ... Other hand Aditya managed to win his match against Wales player, Daniel Wells ... Next he is facing former top-10 Scottish Alan McManus.

Tennis News
At $100K Guadalajara challenger, Mexico

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,365) l Maximillian Neuchrist (AUT,447) 75 36 36

Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN)

Disappointing loss of Prakash against Austrian ... He missed big chance of earning chunk of points from this $100K challenger.

Divij and Purav r unseeded in this big challenger and facing another unseeded pairing of Chiudinelli and Sugita.

Shooting News
At ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol 2013, Changwon, South Korea

In 10m Air Pistol Women, with 388 points Heena Sidhu qualified for the final with tied for top position with Korean Jangmi Kim ... But in the finals Heena became the first shooter to be eliminated with 75.7 points.

Tennis News
Davis Cup 2013 - Asia/Oceania Group I - Relegation Play-off, Bangalore, India

India bt Indonesia 5-0


Friday - 5th April
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) bt Wisnu Adi Nugroho (INA,1774) 61 62 62
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt Christopher Rungkat (INA,250) 63 62 62

Saturday - 6th April
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Elbert Sie (INA)/ David Agung Susanto (INA) 62 61 64

Sunday - 7th April
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) bt David Agung Susanto (INA,1357) 63 61
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt Wisnu Adi Nugroho (INA,1774) 60 61

Somdev and Yuki completed dominance of Indian team with another solid wins ... Buji lost 4 games in his match but Yuki lost only one game in his win ... Indians gave solid performance in this tie as they lost only 24 games in five matches ... So with this tie win Indians keep their position in Asia/Oceania Group I.
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At $455,775 US Men's Clay Court Championship, Houston

[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) vs Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP,103)

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Michael Russell (USA) vs (4) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR)

This is a last tournament for Buji with his protected ranking ... Buji lost against Ruben in the first round of US Open 2012 so this time hoping for reverse result.
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At $100K Guadalajara challenger, Mexico

[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,365) bt (6) Michael Lammer (SUI,339) 61 75

[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,365) bt Manuel Sanchez (MEX,1274) 46 63 62

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,365) vs Maximillian Neuchrist (AUT,447)

This week Prakash back on court in big Mexican challenger ... In the first round he defeated higher ranked Swiss opponent easily ... In the second round Prakash had slow start and lost the first set against local player ... He comeback strongly and won next two sets ... In the final qualifying he is facing Austrian Neuchrist.
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At $35K+H Leon Challenger, Mexico

[F] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Matt Reid (AUS) 36 57

Divij and Purav failed to lift the title against Aussie pair, whom they defeated in Koyto challenger final ... After losing the first set Divij and Purav were up with break 5-2 in the second ... But they lost next 5 games to lose the match ... Missed chance for them.

Shooting News
At ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol 2013, Changwon, South Korea


10m Air Pistol Men
Gold - Xuan Vinh Hoang (VIE) (10.7, 9.9, 10.5, 10.2, 9.9, 10.6, 10.5, 9.9, 10.0, 9.7, 9.7, 9.8, 8.8, 10.7, 10.4, 9.3, 10.7, 9.1, 9.9, 10.5) 200.8 pts
Silver - Zhiwei Wang (CHN) (10.8, 10.1, 9.1, 9.8, 10.5, 9.6, 10.5, 9.4, 9.1, 9.7, 9.4, 9.5, 10.3, 9.8, 9.5, 10.8, 10.3, 10.5, 10.7, 10.7) 200.1 pts
Bronze - Prakash Nanjappa (IND) (10.6, 10.3, 10.4, 9.5, 10.3, 10.5, 9.9, 9.4, 10.1, 9.8, 9.9, 10.2, 9.9, 10.1, 9.9, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1) 180.2 pts

7. Jitu Rai - (10.5, 9.0, 9.9, 9.9, 9.2, 9.5, 10.5, 9.6, 8.8, 10.5) 97.4 pts

Prakash Nanjappa gave us second medal in ongoing World cup ... He won the Bronze medal in 10m Air Pistol Men ... In the qualifying Prakash and Jitu Rai tied for third place with 582 score ... But in the final Jitu Rai eliminated 2nd from 8 players and Prakash was 6th eliminated to win Bronze.

Tennis News
Davis Cup 2013 - Asia/Oceania Group I - Relegation Play-off, Banglore, India

India bt Indonesia 3-0

Friday - 5th April
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) bt Wisnu Adi Nugroho (INA,1774) 61 62 62
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt Christopher Rungkat (INA,250) 63 62 62

Saturday - 6th April
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Elbert Sie (INA)/ David Agung Susanto (INA) 62 61 64

Sanam and Leander were cruising for comfortable victory after two sets ... After winning first 2 sets easily in the third 1st three games were stretched little bit but in that our pair take break in 3rd game on David's serve ... In this set our players played lethargically and Lee lost his serve in 7th game with few errors ... In last 2 games our pair again showed same intensity which they showed in first 2 sets ... They broke again David's serve in 10th game this time on luv for dominating win ... This was Lee's 50th Davis cup tie and scored another victory with another new partner, Sanam Singh..

So with this win we r having winning lead in this tie ... Overall expected one-sided tie.
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At $35K+H Leon Challenger, Mexico

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (1) Nicolas Monroe (USA)/ Simon Stadler (GER) 64 62

[F] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Matt Reid (AUS)

Purav and Divij scored huge straight sets upset win over top-75 pair ... After winning the first set with a single break they dominated the second set ... In the final they r facing unseeded Aussie pair, who upset Ratiwatanas in the first round.

Shooting News
At ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol 2013, Changwon, South Korea


25m Pistol Women
Gold - Rahi Sarnobat (IND)
Silver - Kyeongae Kim (KOR)
Bronze - Jangmi Kim (KOR)

Final
Rahi Sarnobat (IND) bt Kyeongae Kim (KOR) 8-6

25m Pistol Women
According to the new competition rules, top eight players from the preliminaries qualify for the semifinals where points are given according to the number of inner tens scored by a shooter in each series of five shots. The top two shooters then qualify for the final, while the third and fourth placed shooters face each other in the bronze medal play-off.

After disappointing performance on the first day where Abhinav Bindra finished on 15th position and failed to qualify for the final ... On the second day young Rahi Sarnobat brought smile on Indian faces ... She wins Gold medal in 25m Pistol Women under new formatted World cup, where qualifying scores doesn't count in the final ... Rahi qualified for the semifinals on T3 position with 585 score ... In the semifinals she scored 15 points from 20 points and finished on 2nd place ... So she played final against top place local player Kyeongae Kim ... In the race-to-seven points final, a player gets two points for winning the series, while a point each is given if both the shooters are tied. After two tied series, Rahi was first to get off the block in the third and opened up a two-point lead. But Kim hit back immediately winning the next two series take a 6-4 lead ... After facing a must-win situation, Rahi raised her performance while her Korean opponent struggled to keep her composure and lost the sixth and seventh series 3-1 and 2-1 respectively and gave the gold to the Indian.

In 50m Pistol men event, Prakash Nanjappa qualified for the final on 8th place but eliminated in the first round of qualifying.

Tennis News
Davis Cup 2013 - Asia/Oceania Group I - Relegation Play-off, Banglore, India

India vs Indonesia 2-0

Friday - 5th April
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) bt Wisnu Adi Nugroho (INA,1774) 61 62 62
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) bt Christopher Rungkat (INA,250) 63 62 62

As expected dominating winning start for Buji against lower ranked Indonesian ... Buji lost only 5 games in this match to gave 1-0 lead to India.

Yuki struggled with his serve in the first set ... He saved multiple break points in the first set but with a single break advantage he won the first set ... After that Sanam dominated the match and won next two sets with double break.
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At $35K+H Leon Challenger, Mexico

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Adrian Menendez-MacEiras (ESP) 64 60

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (1) Nicolas Monroe (USA)/ Simon Stadler (GER)

Another comfortable win for Divij and Purav in the quarters ... In the semis they r facing top-seed pair.
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At $10K Vietnam F2 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,401) l (6) Laurent Recouderc (FRA,461) 36 26

Disappointing loss of Jeevan against last week's Vietnam F1 winner.

Badminton News
At $120K Australian Open (Grand Prix Gold), Sydney

[R3] (14) Anand Pawar (IND,44) l (4) Wei Feng Chong (MAS,16) 19-21 15-21
[R3] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 10-21 21-18 15-21

Guru gave creditable performance against WR #1 Lee in 56 minutes match ... After losing the first game easily he fought back in the second ... Guru take early couple of points lead but Lee caught him at 13-all ... Guru opened 3 points lead from 15-all and kept that advantage ... Guru won the second game converting 2nd game point ... In the final game Lee take 4 points lead from 7-all, 11-7, and then kept increasing lead ... He won the match converting 3rd match point ... In other match Anand failed to raise his game at important points.

Tennis News
Davis Cup 2013 - Asia/Oceania Group I - Relegation Play-off, Banglore, India

Friday - 5th March (from 15:00 hrs)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) vs Wisnu Adi Nugroho (INA,1774)
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) vs Christopher Rungkat (INA,250)

Saturday - 6th March (from 17:00 hrs)
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Elbert Sie (INA)/ David Agung Susanto (INA)

Sunday - 7th March (from 15:00 hrs)
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,208) vs Christopher Rungkat (INA,250)
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,279) vs Wisnu Adi Nugroho (INA,1774)

Buji in playing in the first rubber.

Badminton News
At $120K Australian Open (Grand Prix Gold), Sydney

[R1] Chetan Anand (IND,100) l Riyanto Subagja (INA,78) 14-21 16-21
[R1] Arvind Bhat (IND,99) l (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1) 10-21 18-21
[R1] (14) Anand Pawar (IND,44) bt Arif Ramadhan (INA,173) 19-21 21-11 21-13
[R1] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) bt Hu-Wen Chew (AUS,705) 21-4 21-7
[R1] (9) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) bt Kwong Beng Chan (MAS,140) 21-11 21-14
[R1] Sarada Jasti (IND,145) l Yui Hashimoto (JPN,44) 5-21 13-21

[R2] (14) Anand Pawar (IND,44) bt Zulfadli Zulkiffli (MAS,64) 21-18 Retd.
[R2] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) bt Suppanyu Avihingsanon (THA,51) 21-14 18-21 21-19
[R2] (9) Ajay Jayaram (IND,30) l Dong Keun Lee (KOR,107) 24-26 19-21

[R3] (14) Anand Pawar (IND,44) vs (4) Wei Feng Chong (MAS,16)
[R3] (11) Gurusaidutt R. M. V. (IND,36) vs (1) Chong Wei Lee (MAS,1)

Last week of March, Prannoy H. S., Arundhati Pantawane and Thulasi P. C. reached in the semis at Polish Open.

This week at Australian Grand Prix Gold tournament Guru and Anand Pawar in the third round but surprised by loss of Ajay Jayaram against lower ranked Korean in the second round.

Tennis News
At $35K+H Leon Challenger, Mexico

[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)/ Hsein-Yin Peng (TPE) 63 63

Comfortable winning start for Divij and Purav against tricky Taipei pair.
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At $10K Vietnam F2 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[R2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,401) bt Marvin Netuschil (GER,852) 62 62

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,401) vs (6) Laurent Recouderc (FRA,461)

Another expected easy win for Jeevan ... Next he is facing Frenchman Recouderc, who was last week's Vietnam F1 futures winner and 3 yrs back was in top-125.

Chess News
At FIDE Candidates Tournament 2013, London, England

Magnus Carlsen become challenger against Anand for the World Chess Championship after winning dramatic FIDE Candidates Tournament ... The World Chess Championship will be played from 6th November to 26th November 2013 mostly at Chennai ... It will be best of 12 head to head matches with a tie breaker if needed ... Interestingly 22 yrs old Carlsen is 21 years younger to Anand.

This FIDE Candidates Tournament 2013 would consider the most spectacular tournament of recent years ... Until Round 11, Magnus Carlsen was leading by half point and was consider favorite for winning the title but last three rounds were dramatic ... In round 12, Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Carlsen playing with Black and then Vladimir Kramnik scored big win over Levon Aronian with Black ... So now Kramnik was leading after round 12 ... In 13th round Carlsen scored hard fought win after 7 hours game against Teimour Radjabov playing with Black ... Other hand Boris Gelfand hold Kramnik playing with Black ... Kramnik and Carlsen were tied for top position with 8.5 points but Carlsen had upper-hand as per the second tie-break rule: higher number of wins ... In the final round Kramnik needed victory for any chance of winning this tournament but in shocking result both top two players lost their respective matches ... In rare occasion Carlsen lost his second match playing with White in the same tournament ... Carlsen made mistake with f3 move on 31st move and lost match after 48 moves against Peter Svidler ... But this time again Kramnik blown chance of in the World Chess Championship match ... Kramnik played all-out kill game against Ivanchuk but Ivanchuk punished him for excessive opening aggression ... Kramnik resigned after 47 moves and handed title to Magnus Carlsen on the second tie-break rule: higher number of wins ... Magnus Carlsen won five matches and Vladimir Kramnik won four.

Tennis News
Davis Cup 2013 - Asia/Oceania Group I, Bangalore, India

Indian Team - Somdev Devvarman (208), Yuki Bhambri (279), Sanam Singh (340) and Leander Paes
Captain - Shiv-Prakash Misra
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

Indonesian Team - Christopher Rungkat (251), Elbert Sie (880), David Agung Susanto (1355) and Wisnu Adi Nugroho (1778)
Captain - Hendri-Susilo Pramono

Indians r favorite as they r fielding strong team ... First-time in India Davis cup matches will be played in floodlight at Bangalore.
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At $35K+H Leon Challenger, Mexico

[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)/ Hsein-Yin Peng (TPE)

Tougher draw this week ... Tricky match against similar ranked regular Taipei pair.
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At $10K Vietnam F1 Futures, Ho Chi Minh City

[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,401) bt Dekel Bar (ISR,933) 62 62

[R2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,401) vs Marvin Netuschil (GER,852)

Expected easy win for Jeevan.

Tennis News
At $35K+H San Luis Potosi Challenger, Mexico

[SF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Peter Gojowczyk (GER) 67(3) 76(7) 11-13

Really tough loss in very close 2 hours match ... After losing the first set in tie-break our pair was 3 match points down in the second tie-break at 3-6 ... They saved those 3 match points against them and converted 2nd set point ... In match tie-break also Divij and Purav saved another match at 8-9 but then wasted 2 match points at 10-9 and 11-10 ... Chiudinelli and Gojowczyk converted their 5th match point for good win ... Still good performance by Indian top-seed pair on the clay.

Tennis News
At $100K+H Le Gosier Challenger, Guadeloupe

[QF] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,436) l (1) Benoit Paire (FRA,38) 26 26

Match against top-40 player was tough and in end it proved right ... Paire convincingly defeated Prkash with double break in each set ... Still good outing for Prakash and reaching quarters will help him to push his ranking around #370.

Tennis News
At $100K+H Le Gosier Challenger, Guadeloupe

[R2] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,436) bt (8) Marc Gicquel (FRA,117) 75 76(5)

[QF] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,436) vs (1) Benoit Paire (FRA,38)

Excellent win by Prakash against veteran Frenchman Marc Gicquel in almost 2 hours in closely fought match ... In this match Prakash had decent 1st serve percentage, 66%, but Marc had 9 break point chances and he converted one in each set ... Prkash also created 10 break point chances and converted 3 of them, 2 in the first set and one in the second ... Next Prakash is facing top-40 Frenchman Benoit Paire.
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At $35K+H San Luis Potosi Challenger, Mexico

[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Dusan Lojda (CZE)/ Johm Millman (AUS) 62 64

[SF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Peter Gojowczyk (GER)

Purav and Divij continued with their good run and scored another comfortable win ... In the semis they r facing experienced European pair.

Squash News
At $70K KL Open 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[Q1] Joshana Chinappa (IND,27) bt Coline Aumard (FRA,39) 11-4 11-1 11-1 (25m)

[R1] (15) Dipika Pallikal (IND,15) bt (Q) Lisa Aitken (SCO,40) 11-7 11-7 11-7 (34m)
[R1] (Q) Joshana Chinappa (IND,27) l (7) Joelle King (NZL,7) 5-11 4-11 5-11 (35m)

[R2] (15) Dipika Pallikal (IND,15) l (8) Jenny Duncalf (ENG,8) 9-11 5-11 11-6 4-11 (48m)

Dipika started with solid win against Aitken at KL Open ... But lost in the second round against WR #8 Duncalf in four games ... Frankly I was hoping upset from Dipika.

Joshana qualified for main-draw before losing to Joelle King in straight games.
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At $50K KL Open 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[Q1] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND,81) bt Gurshan Singh (MAS,226) 11-6 11-1 11-7

[Q2] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND,81) l Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan (MAS,39) 8-11 5-11 11-5 9-11 (61m)

[R1] Saurav Ghosal (IND,19) l Tarek Momen (EGY,11) 6-11 11-8 11-5 6-11 5-11 (57m)

Saurav first-time enter into top 20 world ranking with some consistent performance in last few months ... He missed big opportunity of scoring upset win over Egyptian WR #11 Tarek Momen in the first round of KL Open ... He was leading 2-1 games before losing last two games.