India's Sania Mirza has lost in the first round of the qualifying draw for the WTA event in Pattaya. Mirza was beaten by Galina Voskoboeva 6-4, 6-4 for the second time in three career meetings. The Russian ranked #560 in the world, did not play in 2010 after the French Open due to injury and is now trying to get back to her career best rank of #94.
In the ATP Challenger event in Italy, Sweden's Joachim Johansson has been granted a wild card. The former world #9 attempted a comeback from injury in 2009 but has played only one event in all of 2010 - Sweden's Davis Cup tie in March. Another wild card entrant in the same event is former world #12 Dominik Hrbaty. The 33 year old Slovak is now ranked #459 in the world.
In the latest ATP rankings, Somdev Devvarman moves to a new career high ranking of #80 after reaching the final of the SA Open in Johannesburg. Also, India's third ranked player Vishnu Vardhan moves up 36 positions to #354 after the points of reaching the finals of the ITF Cambodia F1 Futures were added to his tally.
Finally, a little known 16 year old Indian Ramkumar Ramanathan has won two matches and is now one win away from qualifying for the ITF Futures event in Spain beng played on clay.Ramanathan beat 16th seed Toby Martin of Great Britain 6-2, 6-4 in the first round and then beat Spaniard Carlos Tajes Alonso 6-0, 6-0 and now plays 8th seed Marco Bortolotti of Italy in the final round of qualifying.
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