Now second week of Indian Challenger series ... Limelight on Dharwad.

Dharwad Challanger
Qualifying Draw
[Q1] THOMPSON, Nathan USA d. (WC)PATIL, Vibhu IND 60 60
[Q1] KULICK, Victor ISR d. (WC)KUMAR, Vijay IND 60 60
[Q1] SUKUL, Saurav IND d. (WC)DATTA, Arindam IND 62 64
[Q1] TIERRO, Patrick PHI d. GHOUSE, Mustafa IND 75 64
[Q1] SINGH, Ashutosh IND d. (WC)MARWAH, Puneet IND 60 60
[Q1] INBAR, Amit ISR d. (WC)PERANAMALLUR CHANDRA SEKAR, Vignesh IND 60 64
[Q1] (WC)RAJAGOPALAN, Arun Prakash IND d. (WC)GUBBI, Yatish IND 61 60

[Q2] KULICK, Victor ISR d. (7)VARDHAN, Vishnu IND 64 63
[Q2] (2)TERESHCHUK, Orest UKR d. SUKUL, Saurav IND 62 61
[Q2] TIERRO, Patrick PHI d. (8)KANNAN, Vijay IND 64 76(3)
[Q2] SINGH, Ashutosh IND d. (5)PATHANJALI, Ravishankar IND 62 63
[Q2] INBAR, Amit ISR d. (4)SRIDHAR, Vinod IND 62 64
[Q2] (6)BUBKA, Sergei d. (WC)RAJAGOPALAN, Arun Prakash IND 61 62

[Q3] (3)KING, Phillip USA d. SINGH, Ashutosh IND 62 62

So very poor performance from Indians and again single player failed to qualify for maindraw ... :(

Main Draw -
[R1] (4)Lukasz Kubot (POL) d. Karan Rastogi (IND) 62 62
[R1] Lukas Lacko (SVK) d. (WC)Kaushik Raju (IND) 61 60
[R1] (Q)Philip King ( USA) d. (WC)Vishal Uppal (IND) 46 63 64
[R1] (Q)Orest Tereshchuck (UKR.) d. (WC)Kiran Nandkumar (IND) 60 63
[R1] (3)Yen Hsun Lu (TPE) d. (WC) SunilKumar Sipaeya (IND) 62 63

(6)Prakash Amritraj (IND) d. Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) 76(2) 76(2)
(7)Rohan Bopanna (IND) d. Jesse Huta Galung (NED) 62 60

Good win by Prakash and showing he is getting his touch ... Lets hope Rohan try to produce his best result in this local event.

Karan brought back on earth by polish Lukasz Kubot with taking revenge ... And others continued their poor performance.

[R2] (6)Prakash Amritraj (IND) vs (Q)Philip King ( USA)
[R2] (7)Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Viktor Troicki (SCG)


Doubles results -
[R1] (1) Sonchat Ratiwatana/Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA) bt (WC) Arun Prakash Rajgopalan/Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 64 60
[R1] Reishchick Sebestian (GER)/Victor Troicki (SCG) bt IRavishankar Pathanjali/Shridhar Vinod (IND) 64 63
[R1] (WC) Henry Adgei Darko (GHA)/Thompson Nathan (USA) bt (WC) Nandakumar Kiran/P Chandrashekhar (IND) 61 61

[R1] (2) Prakash Amritraj/Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Sunilkumar Sipaeya/Vishal Uppal (IND) 76(2) 62
[R1] (4) Denis Istomin (UZB)/Orest TERESHCHUK (UKR) bt Vijay Kannan (IND)/ Phillip King (USA) 75 63
[R1] Karan Rastogi (IND)/Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (3) Mustafa Ghouse (IND)/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 46 75 10-6

[R2] (2) Prakash Amritraj/Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Kamil Capkovic (SVK)/Lukas Lacko (SVK)
[R2] (WC) Henry Adgei Darko (GHA)/Thompson Nathan (USA) vs Karan Rastogi (IND)/Ashutosh Singh (IND)

Superb performance by karan and Ashutosh to beat seasoned pair of Mustafa and Aisam.