Tennis News
At $450K Chennai Open ATP Tennis Tournament, India (5 - 11 Jan 2009)

Qualifying First Round
(1) Flavio Cipolla (ITA) bt Navdeep Singh (IND) 64 63
Yuichi Sugita (JPN) bt Pavol Cervenak (SVK) 61 62
Rohan Gajjar (IND) bt (WC) Abhijeet Tiwari (IND) 60 26 76(2)
(7) Alex Satschko (GER) bt Lovro Zovko (CRO) 62 75

(2) Michael Berrer (GER) bt Rohan Gide (IND) 61 62
Ranjeet Virali Murugensan (IND) bt Vikram Reddy B. (IND) 76(3) 62
(WC) Sanam Singh (IND) bt Yuki Bhambri (IND) 46 64 61
Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (6) Michel Koning (NED) 67(3) 76(1) 76(4)

(3) Danai Udomchoke (THA) bt N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 64 62
Louk Sorensen (IRL) bt Vinod Sridar (IND) 60 64
(WC) Srirambalaji Narayanasamy (IND) bt Ronak Manuja (IND) 62 62
(8) Kyu Tae Im (KOR) bt (WC) Naveen Sai (IND) 60 60

(4) Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Tatsuma Ito (JPN) 64 62
Oliver Marach (AUT) bt Ashutosh Singh (IND) 63 63
Vignesh Perananallur Chandra Sekar (IND) bt Purav Raja (IND) 36 4-2 Retd (injury to right leg)
(5) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS) bt Sunil Kumar Sipayeva (IND) 64 75

Bops scored good upset in very tight match ... Otherwise overall expected results.