Thursday, July 10, 2008

Tennis News -
At $385K Campbell's HoF championship, Newport, USA

[R2] Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,169) l Fabrice Santoro (FRA,57) 67(4) 26

Aisam couldn't repeat last year's performance of reaching quarters, he lost against defending champion Fabrice Santoro.
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At $15K Syria F1 Futures, Damascus

[SF] (4) RUCKELSHAUSEN Richard (AUT)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) bt (1) DUCLOS Pierre-Ludovic (CAN)/ SITAK Dmitri (RUS) 46 76(5) 10(4)
[SF] (3) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ SOMOGYI Alexander (SVK) bt (2) GHEDIN Riccardo (ITA)/ KRKOSKA Jiri (CZE) W/O

Navdeep and Ruckelshausen reached final beating top seed pair in comeback victory in super-tiebreak ... Rohan and Somogyi received walkover to move into final ... So our both players facing eachother in doubles final.
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At $15K Great Britain F9 Futures, Felixstowe

[R1] MANKAD Harsh (IND,567) l (6) COLL-RIUDAVETS Ignacio (ESP,470) 67(6) 62 46
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND,884) l MARTIN-ADALIA Pablo (ESP,609) 67(3) 26
[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND,742) l (1) GOODALL Joshua (GBR,261) 26 06
[R1] SINGH Ashutosh (IND,525) l (2) CHEKHOV Pavel (RUS,275) 46 63 57

Doubles -
[R1] (3) MANKAD Harsh (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt COX Daniel (GBR)/ MILTON Joshua (GBR) 76(4) 76(1)
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) bt BIDMEADE David (AUS)/ KELLY Dayne (AUS) 26 63 11(9)

[QF] RAJA Purav (IND)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) vs (ALT) CORRIE Edward (GBR)/ WIRE Richard (GBR)
[QF] (3) MANKAD Harsh (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs KADIR Sadik (AUS)/ LA PORTE Shane (USA)

Harsh lost in very close match ... But Ashutosh also had a very heart breaking loss against second seed Russian.

In ill-tempered doubles matches our pairs managed to score wins ... Lots of disputed calls happened in those matches.

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