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Somdev bows out of US Challenger event

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Somdev Devvarman's runat the ATP Challenger tournament came to an end after a tamequarter-final defeat against American eighth seed Denis Kudla,here.

Wild card Somdev could not repeat the performance of hislast two matches, where he had come from behind to win, as helost 2-6 0-6 to world number 162 rival in the USD 75,000 hardcourt tournament.

With his the quarter-final appearance the Indian pocketed17 ranking points and earned USD 2190.

Somdev, a wild card entrant, had lost six consecutivefirst round matches before coming into this tournament.

The Indian, who missed the first half of the season as hewas recuperating from a shoulder surgery, has slid to 733 inthe singles ATP rankings.

He had made a comeback to competitive tennis at theLondon Olympics.

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