Thursday, June 17, 2010

Tennis News
At 2010 Wimbledon Championship, London England

[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,292) bt Marinko Matosevic (AUS,218) 26 63 63

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,292) Vs Bernard Tomic ( AUS,252)

Doubles
[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) bt (7) Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) 67(3) 63 62

[Q2] (8) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bjorn Phau (GER) 76(5) 64
[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs (1) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL)

In doubles final qualifying round, first set Harsh and Bozol were early break down ... But in 10th game when Peya was serving for the set they saved 2 set points before breaking his serve and then take first set in tie-break ... In second set also match was close, but Harsh and Bozol take crucial break breaking Phau's serve in 5th game and then hold their respective service games to won set and match ... So after 13 yrs playing at junior Wimbledon Harsh is going to play his first match at Wimbledon.

Prakash started tentatively against Marinko Matosevic and Marinko take full advantage of that winning first set with 2 breaks ... But from second set Prkash started to control the game and won next 2 sets to moved into final qualifying ... He meet another Aussie but this time young talented Bernard Tomic.

In doubles qualifying first round match in the first set both pairs were playing very good match ... Somi and Treat were matching game with Prakash and Allegro, but in tie-breal Kash and Allegro run away to win it comfortably ... But from second set Somi and Treat played excellent tennis and win it with a break .. In decider they dominated from the start and winning it after couple of breaks ... In the final qualifying they r facing top-seed Poles.

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At $15K+H France F8 Futures 2010, Blois

[QF] (2) Ashwin KUMAR (USA)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) l Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA)/ Xavier PUJO (FRA) 62 26 6-10

Lost in super tie-break against local pair.
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At $10K Indonesia F3 Futures, Tegal

[R2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,815) l (1) Young-Jun KIM (KOR,289) 16 67(7)
[R2] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,966) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND,872) 62 62
[R2] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,470) bt Michal KONECNY (CZE,990) 76(4) 63
[R2] (6) Karan RASTOGI (IND,493) l (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS,1231) 46 36
[R2] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,439) bt Nikala SCHOLTZ (RSA,887) 62 75

[QF] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,966) vs (1) Young-Jun KIM (KOR,289)
[QF] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,470) vs (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS,1231)
[QF] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,439) vs (8) Sergei KROTIOUK (RUS,573)

Doubles
[QF] KROTIOUK (RUS)/ MARQUIS (IND) bt PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 64 60
[QF] (4) MALIK (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) bt KARPOV (RUS)/ STARKOV (RUS) 63 06 10-3
[QF] HUANG (TPE)/ SINGH (IND) l RUNGKAT (INA)/ THOMPSON (USA) 16 26

Surprising loss for Karan, otherwise good performance by Vivek, Ranjeet and Rohan to moved into quarters.

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