Saturday, January 01, 2011

Tennis News
At $ 398,250 Aircel Chennai Open, India

[Q1] Karunuday Singh (IND,900) bt (WC) Andreas Gremelmayr (GER,UNR) 62 62
[Q1] Akash Wagh (IND,1209) l David Goffin (BEL,229) 16
[Q1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,678) l (7) Ivo Minar (CZE,167) 16 36
[Q1] Shahbaaz Khan (IND,UNR) l (2) Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA,124) 06 06
[Q1] Sanam Singh (IND,UNR) l Franco Skugor (CRO,182) 16 26
[Q1] (WC) Ajai Selvaraj (IND,UNR) l Evgeny Kirillov (RUS,304) 46 16
[Q1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,386) bt (3) Conor Niland (IRL,129) 46 75 64
[Q1] Karan Rastogi (IND,332) l Rajeev Ram (USA,184) 67(4) 36
[Q1] Purav Raja (IND,UNR) l (6) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,159) 06 16
[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,1018) l (4) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS,146) 26 67(3)
[Q1] (WC) Rupesh Roy (IND,557) bt Vignesh Peranmallur (IND,1425) 64 76(6)
[Q1] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) l (8) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,180) 36 06

[Q2] Karunuday Singh (IND,900) vs (1) Go Soeda (JPN,120)
[Q2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,386) vs Ante Pavic (CRO,532)
[Q2] (WC) Rupesh Roy (IND,557) vs (4) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS,146)

Somdev is directly qualified for maindraw ... Rohan and Yuki recieved wildcards for maindraw in singles ... In doubles pair of Somdev-Sanam and Vishnu-Divij recieved wildcrads.

Vishnu scored huge comeback victory over top-130 Irish player ... After losing first set he won tight second set ... In decider he was break down at 3-4 but won next 3 games breaking Niland's serve twice to won his qaulifying match ... Karunuday also take full use of weak opponent to moved into second but there he is facing top-seed experienced Japanese Go Soeda.

Karan had cruel draw and lost in close 2 sets against Rajeev Ram but I was hoping upset ... Divij fought back from 3-5 down in second set also had couple of set points at 6-5 on Kravchuk's serve before losing in tie-break.

Draw is out Buji and Yuki will be facing qualifiers but Rohan having tough match against Wawrinka.

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At $220K Auckland International, New Zealand

[Q1] Sania Mirza (IND,141) bt (8) Stefanie Voegele (SUI,135) 64 60

[Q2] Sania Mirza (IND,141) vs Silvia Soler Espinosa (ESP,167)

Good start in season 2011 for Sania, who started with dominating win over similar ranked Swiss Voegele ... Next she is facing Spanish girl.

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