Monday, May 29, 2006

At NCAA national championship, Somdev Devvarman making big waves ... He become first Indian to reach final of NCAA national championship ... Devvarman is just the second Cavalier to reach the finals of the NCAA Tournament, joining Brian Vahaly, who reached the final in 2001.

[R1] (14) Somdev Devvarman, Virginia bt Matko Maravic, Michigan 64 60
[R2] (14) Somdev Devvarman, Virginia bt Martin Sayer, Radford 63 64
[PQF] (14) Somdev Devvarman, Virginia bt (5) Ludovic Walter, Duke 62 63
[QF] (14) Somdev Devvarman, Virginia bt Sheeva Parbhu, Omaha, NE 61 63
[SF] (14) Somdev Devvarman, Virginia bt (25) KC Corkery, Stanford 64 57 63

[F] (14) Somdev Devvarman, Virginia vs (1) Benjamin Kohlloeffel, UCLA

Go Somdev.
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At $15K ITF India futures F2 at Dehra Dun

The results (third and final qualifying round) -
Kamala Kannan bt Yuda Shieh (Tpe) 61 62
Juan Langton (Sam) bt P. C. Vignesh 64 62
Michael Leong (Sol) bt Dai-Chiao Lin (Tpe) 76 (5) 61
Divyanshu Singh bt Avinash Kunwar 62 63
Mathew Taylor (GBR) bt Praveen Henry (IND) 61 61
Vijay Paul (US) bt Vijit Sehgal (IND) 62 61
Sandeep Choudhary (IND) bt Fariz Mohammed (IND) 63 62
Yannick Nelord (IND) bt Gajapathy Pillai (IND) 76(4) 62

Only 3 of the 1st round singles matches were played today.

Main draw -
(1)Henry Adjei-Darko (GHA) vs (WC)Sriram Narayanaswami (IND)
Rahil Makharia (IND) vs (q)Vijay Paul (USA)
(WC)Aqeel Khan (PAK) bt (q)Kamala Kannan (IND) 63 63
(5)Vishal Uppal (IND) vs (q) Michel Leong (SOL)
(3)Nick Monroe (USA) vs Tai-Wei Liu (TPE)
Aditya Madkekar (IND) bt J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 61 64
Tushar Liberhan (IND) vs Purav Raja (IND)
(8)Vinod Sridhar (IND) vs (q) Mathew Taylor (GBR)
(7)Navdeep Singh (IND) vs Vivek Shokeen (IND)
(WC)Sumit Prakash Gupta (IND) vs (q) Yannik Nelord ( IND)
Nitin Kirtane (IND) bt Shivang Mishra (IND) 63 75
(4)Karan Rastogi (IND) vs Juan Langton ( SAM)
(6)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) vs (q) Sandeep Choudhary (IND)
Yaoki Ishii (JPN) vs (q) Divyanshu Singh (IND)
Mustafa Ghouse (IND) vs (WC)Varun Walia (IND)
(2)Alexey Kedriouk (KAZ) vs Dmitriy Makeev (KAZ)
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Doubles (pre-quarterfinals) -
Vinod Sridhar (IND)/Vishaal Uppal (IND) bt Vishal Gaur (IND)/Kavan Sejpal (IND) 61 60
Sandeep Kirtane (IND)/Varun Walia (IND) bt Aqeel Khan (Pak)/Arindam Datta (IND) 62 75
Tushar Liberhan (IND)/Navdeep Singh (IND) bt Sandeep Kumar (IND)/Honey Rana (IND) 61 60
Aditya Madkekar (IND)/Purav Raja (IND) bt P.C. Vignesh (IND)/Pavan Polavarapu (IND) 63 64
Sumit Prakash Gupta (IND)/Vivek Shokeen (IND) w/o Burnham Arlidge(GBR)/Mathew Taylor (GBR)
Punna Vishal (IND)/Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Alexey Kedriouk(Kaz)/Dmitri Makeyev (Kaz) 62 62
Alon Moses (IND)/Vijit Sehgal (IND) bt Vijay Paul (US)/Rahil Makharia (IND) 75 63

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