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June
Anil Mehul played a tier-2 Challenger in Montevideo, winning in doubles but losing in the first round in singles. Nice to be in the ranking range to play both at the same event though. Sushant Chiba had less than stellar results at two Challengers. Tier-3 Dublin, during Roland Garros, saw him lose in the quarters; that was followed up by a second-round loss at tier-2 Rijeka the next week. Didn't make it out of qualifying for doubles in either. So he's definitely got some work to do. The second loss was particularly interesting, to 2nd-seed Uglesa Svajnovic(CRO). Svajnovic had been the #2 juniors player in his class(behind Edleman), and trounced him in all four previous meetings, but this one looked to be a lot closer. Chiba should have won it in fact, and was up a break twice in the final set only to fall 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5). The Croatian would go on to make the title match, so this could well have been a fine showing ... but Sushant couldn't finish.
Prakash Mooljee entered the Eastbourne 250 as his grass warm-up, losing to Nikitin in a close final there. Ritwik Dudwadkar needed rest after his clay accomplishments, and didn't defend his title at Queens(500). That lost him a sizable amount of progress, though he remained, narrowly, #2 heading into Wimbledon. The battle for that spot is far from over.
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