Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Tennis News
At u14 World Junior Tennis Championships 2011, Prostejov, Czech Republic

Sumit Nagal, Sahil Deshmukh and Garvit Batra r representing India in World Junior championship ... We finished 3rd in Asia Oceania region so doesn't get seeding ... We r in tough group D against clay court specialist 2nd seed Romania, 8th seed Canada and Spain.

Group D
India bt (8) Canada 2-1

Sumit Nagal (IND) l Alejandro Tabilo (CAN) 16 26
Sahil Deshmukh (IND) bt David Volfson (CAN) 75 67 63
Sahil Deshmukh (IND)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) bt Alejandro Tabilo (CAN)/ David Volfson (CAN) 62 46 63

(2) Romania bt Spain 2-1

We started with nice upset win over seeded Canadian team ... Sahil played exceptional long match ... He scored victory in 2 hrs and 35 mis over Canadian opponent ... In doubles also Sahil partnered Sumit to scored upset win over Canadian pair.

Sahil Deshmukh's recent participation in European clay tournaments is helping to the team ... Last week at Cologne Junior Tennis Cup Sahil won doubles title with his Korean partner Ku Keon Kang.

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At $10K Turkey F22 futures, Izmir

[R1] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,628) l Jerome INZERILLO (FRA,766) 64 67(5) 67(2)

Doubles
[R1] (4) BRYDOLF (SWE)/ ROSENHOLM (SWE) bt ANAND (IND)/ MANUJA (IND) 76(4) 46 10-5
[R1] BDEL NOUR (SYR)/ AL TAWIL (SYR) bt (3) ABDULNOUR (SYR)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 26 63 10-5
[R1] ERUN (TUR)/ KAPUKIRAN (TUR) bt ELANGOVAN (IND)/ JORDI (SUI) 63 75
[R1] (2) CIUMAC (MDA)/ GEMOUCHIDIS (GRE) bt MOHAMMED (IND)/ VUKAJLOVIC (SUI) 62 61

So another loss against Frenchman, though different, for Vijay Sundar ... Frankly this Turkey tour not at all turning as per Vijay Sundar expectations ... Also our all Indian players lost in the first round of doubles.

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