Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Tennis News
At $50K+H Singapore Challenger,

[R1] (1) Somdev Devvarman (IND,108) bt (WC) Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana (THA,1174) 62 61
[R1] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) bt Brydan Klein (AUS,214) 61 36 64

[R2] (1) Somdev Devvarman (IND,108) vs John Millman (AUS,203)
[R1] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) vs Dmitry Tursunov (RUS,197)

Doubles
[R1] Rik DE Voest (RSA)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs (4) Flavio Cipolla (ITA)/ Simone Vagnozzi (ITA)
[R1] Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Zhe Li (CHN)
[R1] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Superb third set comeback win by Karan against WR #215 Aussie player Brydan Klein ... After winning first set easily Karan but from second Brydan Klein started to play well ... He take 1-3 lead but Karan managed to make it 3-all ... But Brydan Klein managed to win next 3 games to won second set ... In third set Brydan Klein broke Karan in first game but Karan immediately broke back ... Brydan Klein again broke him in 5th game but again got broken by Karan in 6th game to make it 3-all ... Brydan Klein take another break in 7th game to take 4-3 lead but Karan having different plan ... Karan won next 3 games breaking Brydan Klein's serve twice to complete remarkable win over top-220 player.

Buji had expected easy start against wildcard player.

Next Karan having tough match against former top-20 but currently struggling Dmitry Tursunov, who started with easy win over seeded Ivo Minar in the first round ... Buji is facing unheard Aussie player John Millman.

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At Cambodia F1 Futures, Phnom Penh

[R1] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) l Bumpei Sato (JPN,837) 26 67(2)
[R1] (Q) Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,1169) l (8) Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA,551) 63 36 36
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) bt (Q) David Agung Susanto (INA,UNR) 62 62

[R2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) vs (8) Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA,551)

Doubles
[R1] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt SIE (INA)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 64 62
[R1] GAJJAR (IND)/ MALIK (IND) bt ISOBE (JPN)/ TRIJATI (INA) 62 62
[R1] PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) 62 57 11-9

[QF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) vs GAJJAR (IND)/ MALIK (IND)
[QF] PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND) vs GASPARYAN (RUS)/ IVANOV (EST

Bad loss for Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan against Japanese player ... Kaza started well but failed to finish it, so no ranking point for him.

Good upset win by Ashutosh and Vijay Sundar against another Indian seeded pair.

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