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In the final, Arunprakash and Erik Chvojka of Canada defeated Matt Bruch and Greg Ouellette of the US 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. The duo, that had beaten the top-seeded Miles Kasiri of Britain and Karan Rastogi in the second round in two tie-breaks, dropped a set for the first time in the whole tournament featuring a draw of 32. It was the fourth doubles title for Arunprakash and his first in grade `I', which is next only in standard to the Grand Slams. The 18-year-old Arunprakash had won a grade `II' doubles title recently with Divij Sharan in South Africa. The 16-year-old Karan Rastogi made his maiden singles final in a grade `I' tournament as he beat the eighth-seeded Robert Cameron of the US 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 in the semifinals. Karan, who had beaten the second-seeded G.D. Jones of New Zealand in three sets in the earlier round, will meet the top-seeded Leonardo Kirche of Brazil. It was a breakthrough effort for Karan as he had lost in the semifinals of two grade `I' tournaments this season. He had done well in doubles with Somdev Dev Varman in winning three titles in grade `I' events. Harsh in doubles final The third-seeded Harsh Mankad and Jason Marshall of the US beat Artem Sitak and Dmitri Sitak of Russia 6-4, 6-1 in the semifinals of the $ 25,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Dontesk, Ukraine. The Indo-US combination will be challenged by Sergey Stakhovsky of Ukraine and Andrei Stoliarov of Russia in the final. Mustafa loses Mustafa Ghouse and Oliver Freelove of Britain went down 2-6, 4-6 to the top-seeded Esteban Carril and Santiago Ventura of Spain in the semifinals of the $10,000 Futures tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain. Mustafa had lost in the pre-quarterfinals of singles. Liza loses in doubles final The top-seeded Liza Pereira and Jennifer Schmidt of Austria lost 5-7, 6-0, 4-6 to Barbara Pocza and Petra Teller of Hungary in the doubles final of the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament in Tlemcen, Algeria. Liza and partner had beaten Sana Ben Salah of Algeria and Isabel Collischon of Germany 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals after thrashing Rawya Seif of Egypt and Eva Valkova of the Czech Republic 6-0, 6-2 in the quarterfinals. The duo had enjoyed a bye in the first round. In singles, Liza had lost in the pre-quarterfinals.
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