Wednesday, August 03, 2011

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

Group D
India l (2) Romania 0-3

Garvit BATRA (IND) l Nicolae FRUNZA (ROU) 16 26
Sahil DESHMUKH (IND) l Bogdan BORZA (ROU) 46 61 26
Sahil DESHMUKH (IND)/ Sumit NAGAL (IND) l Ion EFRIM (ROU)/ Nicolae FRUNZA (ROU) 36 57

Our boys failed to respond challenge from 2nd seed and European champion Romanian team ... Garvit lost his match in an hour but Sahil fought back after losing the first set before conceding the third set ... Still very good performance by Sahil against higher ranked European player in this match
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At $35K+H Trani Challenger, Italy

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Yannick Mertens (BEL)/ Florian Reynet (FRA) 63 62

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs (3) Jorge Aguilar (CHI)/ Andres Molteni (ARG)

Purav and Sadik scored another very comfortable win to moved into the semis ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed South American pair.
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At $75K+H Beijing Challenger, China

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Junn Mitsuhashi (JPN) l Denis Matsukevich (RUS)/ Marek Semjan (SVK) 76(5) 36 8-10

Another first round loss for Divij ... Need regular partner Vishnu.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F4, Almaty

[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,741) bt (6) Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,384) 67(8) 64 76(2)
[R2] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,353) bt Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,925) 63 62
[R2] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,UNR) l (5) Siarhei Betau (BLR,340) 46 46
[R2] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) bt (2) Mikhail Vasiliev (RUS,299) 61 62

[QF] Rupesh Roy (IND,741) vs (1) Malek Jahiri (TUN,230)
[QF] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,353) vs (5) Siarhei Betau (BLR,340)
[QF] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) vs (8) Arata Onozawa (JPN,497)

Doubles
[QF] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt (1) Siarhei Betau (BLR)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 16 63 10-6
[QF] (4) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) vs Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND)

Turned to be fabulous day as Rupesh and Ranjeet scored big upset wins over their seeded opponents to moved into quarters ... So suddenly 3 Indians in quarters at abroad futures ... Ranjeet scored very dominating win over top-300 Russian player losing only 3 games ... Rupesh also scored upset win over top-400 Russian player in superb comeback after losing the first set ... Karan scored comfortable win over local player and Sidharth also gave decent performance against top-350 player.

In doubles also Kaza and Ranjeet scored upset win over top-seed.

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