Sunday, April 24, 2011

Tennis News
At €416,650 Serbia Open 2011, Belgrade

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,71) vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ,65)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs (2) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Andy Ram (ISR)

Somdev is starting his European clay season with Serbia Open ... In first round he is facing Kazak player and if wins then he will face Spanish 3rd seed Garcia-Lopez.

In doubles Sommy and Treat r facing 2nd seed tough Israeli pair.

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At €450K Estoril Open, Portugal

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA)

In first round top-seed Rohan and Aisam r facing American challenge.
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At $10K India F5, Chennai

Singles First Round
(1) Karan RASTOGI (IND) vs (Q) Shantanu RAJPUT (IND)
(WC) Vijay KANNAN (IND) vs Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA)
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) vs Mark-Alexander KEPLER (GER)
(8) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) vs Vijayant MALIK (IND)
(3) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) vs (Q) Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE)
Rupesh ROY (IND) vs (Q) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)
(WC) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) vs (Q) Arjun KADHE (IND)
(5) Marc FORNELL-MESTRES (ESP) vs Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)
(6) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) vs Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)
(Q) Francois CHATELLE (BEL) vs (WC) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)
(Q) Suresh KRISHNA (IND) vs (WC) Akash WAGH (IND)
(4) Julien DUBAIL (BEL) vs Jae-Sung AN (KOR)
(7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)
Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN) vs Elbert SIE (INA)
(Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) vs (Q) Jeson PATROMBON (PHI)
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) vs Mike VERMEER (LUX)

Terrific win by young Arjun over top-seed Belgian Laurent-Olivier Daxhelet to qualify for main-draw, 76(8) 64 ... He need to play his best tennis to beat Srirambalaji in the first round ... Also interesting match is between Akash and current grass court national champion Suresh Krishna.

Tough draw for Vjayant Malik, Kaza Vinayak Sharma and Vivek Shokeen.

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