Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l (2) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 36 62 1-10

In first set Sommy failed to hold his serve in 8th game and with that single break they lost the set ... In second set they had couple of breaks to won it comfortably but in super tie-break they out performed by Israeli pair.
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At $50K Ostrava Challenger, Czech Republic

[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) l Andis Juska (LAT)/ Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS) 46 16

Purav and Sadik's first partnership of the year ended on losing note.
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At $10K India F5, Chennai

Singles Second Round
(1) Karan RASTOGI (IND,318) bt (WC) Vijay KANNAN (IND,UNR) 60 61
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,611) bt (8) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,601) 64 62
(Q) Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE,1768) bt (Q) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,1275) 62 62
(5) Marc FORNELL-MESTRES (ESP,452) bt (WC) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,1427) 36 76(3) 60
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1168) bt (WC) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND,UNR) 60 62
(4) Julien DUBAIL (BEL,451) bt (Q) Suresh KRISHNA (IND,UNR) 63 64
(7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,554) bt Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,726) 63 3-0 Retd.
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,340) bt (Q) Jeson PATROMBON (PHI,UNR) 64 63

Doubles Quarter Finals
SIE (INA)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt (1) FORNELL-MESTRES (ESP)/ VERMEER (LUX) 26 75 10-6
KEPLER (GER)/ NARASIMHAN (USA) bt (4) AN (KOR)/ KIM (KOR) W/O
PRASHANTH (IND)/ RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt MALIK (IND)/ SHARMA (IND) 62 26 10-8
(2) MITSUHASHI (JPN)/ RUNGKAT (INA) bt KADHE (IND)/ PATROMBON (PHI) 64 36 10-8

Our 5 players r in quarters ... Vijay Sundar scored upset win over similar ranked Rungkat ... Vivek handled Neeraj easily ... Vishnu continued with good form but Karan looks in good form as he lost only 2 games in 2 matches, his real test will start from quarters ... Srirambalaji again failed to take advantage of good start.

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