Thursday, August 04, 2011

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

5th-8th Play-Off
India bt Argentina 2-0

Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Wenceslao ALBIN (ARG) 62 64
Sahil DESHMUKH (IND) bt Juan Pablo FICOVICH (ARG) 75 36 63

India take 2-0 winning lead against Argentina winning both the singles ... Sumit Nagal gave good start with winning his match in straight sets ... Sahil needed 3 sets to beat Argentine #1 player ... Now we will play against China for 5th place, who scored upset win over 6th seed France.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F4, Almaty

[QF] Rupesh Roy (IND,741) l (1) Malek Jahiri (TUN,230) 06 26
[QF] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,353) bt (5) Siarhei Betau (BLR,340) 46 76(3) 75
[QF] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) bt (8) Arata Onozawa (JPN,497) 61 62

[SF] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,353) vs (1) Malek Jahiri (TUN,230)
[SF] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) vs (3) Denys Molchanov (UKR,332)

Doubles
[QF] Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) bt (4) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) 46 76(5) 10-4

[SF] Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) vs Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND)

Really good to see Ranjeet continue with his winning run but I m also excited by Karan's hard fought comeback victory over higher ranked Betau ... Now very big match against top-250 player ... Hoping our players will make it to finals.
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At $35K+H Trani Challenger, Italy

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) l (3) Jorge Aguilar (CHI)/ Andres Molteni (ARG) 26 26

South Americans proved too strong for Purav and Sadik.
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At $10K Savitaipale, Finland

[R2] Shivika Burman(IND,1086) l Anett KONTAVEIT (EST,783) 06 16

One-sided loss for Shivika against Anett.
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At $10K Istanbul, Turkey

[QF] Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA (IND,713) l Diana STOMLEGA (ROU,709) 62 26 26

After winning the first set Ashvarya failed to use advantage.

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