Dinara Safina reclaimed her No. 1 spot in the WTA ranking list released Monday. Serena Williams, who had taken over the spot after the China Open, went down to the No. 2.Somdev Dev Varman reached his career best ranking of 121 in the ATP ranking chart. He had been at 124 last week.In doubles, Mahesh Bhupathi (7) conceded his sixth place to Lukas Dlouhy while Leander Paes’ ranking remained unchanged...
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Somdev Dev Varman moved up two spots to be at 122 in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings chart released on Monday. Compatriot Rohan Bopanna moved up 16 places to be ranked 395 with 95 points.However, Prakash Amritraj and Yuki Bhambri moved down the list. Amritraj lost nine places to be ranked 213 while Bhambri lost three to be at 347.In the ATP doubles list, Mahesh Bhupathi...
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Somdev Dev Varman lost eight places to be ranked 124 in the latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings chart, released on Monday.Somdev’s wait to win his maiden title on the ATP circuit continued as he lost the final of the Charlottesville Challenger event to second seed Kevin Kim after an intense three-set battle on Sunday.According to information received here, third seed Somdev fought...
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Somdev Dev Varman registered a brilliant come-from-behind win over Pavol Cervenak to storm into the quarter finals of the $125,000 ATP Challenger in Seoul, but it was all over for Prakash Amritraj.The fourth-seeded Somdev came back from a set down to beat the Slovak 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the second round of the hard court event.Prakash, however, went down 1-6, 3-6 to second seed and Taipei Davis Cupper...
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Somdev Dev Varman extended his brilliant run at the ATP Challenger event in Charlottesville, in USA, to the semi-finals, but it was curtains for compatriot Sanam Singh, who lost a hard fought quarter final match.Third seed Somdev hardly had any trouble to see off the challenge of Dutch Matwe Middelkoop as he scored a 6-3, 6-4 win in the quarters of the $50,000 hard court event.He will now fight it...
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Long distance runner Kavita Raut and women’s 4x400m relay team won a silver each while men’s 4x400m relay quartet bagged a bronze on the final day as India ended the Asian Athletics Championships at third position Saturday. India in total have 12 medals (one gold, 4 silver, 7 bronze) while China (18 gold, 19 silver, 10 bronze) and Japan (12 gold, 5 silver, 5 bronze) finished first and second respectively.Rohan...
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Somdev Dev Varman survived a scare from wild card Denes Lukacs while Sanam Singh pulled off an upset win over sixth seed Grega Zemlja to make a stupendous start to the ATP Challenger event in Charlottesville in the United States.Third seed Somdev had to dig deep to prevail over his Hungarian opponent 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 in his opening clash of the $ 50,000 hardcourt event.Sanam, who entered the event as...
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What Dinara Safina’s withdrawal from the WTA Championships had rendered as fait accompli became official Monday with Serena Williams’ return to the top of the women’s singles rankings.Somdev Dev Varman continues to impress the ATP computer which has rewarded him a further five places and the Davis Cupper is at No.116 on the latest men’s singles chart. Somdev had reached the quarter finals of the ATP...
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