Tennis News
At World Junior Tennis Championships 2011, Prostejov, Czech Republic (red clay)

For 5th Position
India bt China 2-1

Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Su-hao ZHONG (CHN) 62 63
Sahil DESHMUKH (IND) l Xu-fan ZHOU (CHN) 26 46
Sahil DESHMUKH (IND)/ Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Su-hao ZHONG (CHN)/ Xu-fan ZHOU (CHN) 64 75

India finished in the 5th position beating Chinese team ... Sumit Nagal gave excellent start but Sahil lost against Chinese #1 easily ... In crucial doubles Indians take control with early break to win the first set ... In the second set they were 3-5 down before winning next 4 games to secured the victory and tie.

Congrats to Indian captain and coach Sunil Yajaman with all Indian team; Sahil Deshmukh, Sumit Nagal and Garvit Batra.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F4, Almaty

[SF] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,353) l (1) Malek Jahiri (TUN,230) 26 06
[SF] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) l (3) Denys Molchanov (UKR,332) 26 26

Doubles
[SF] Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 46 62 13-11

[F] Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) l (2) Alexey Kedryuk (KAZ)/ Mikhail Vasiliev (RUS) 46 64 9-11

Turned to be total bad day in the singles as our both players lost in one-sided matches ... After good showing in earlier rounds this was disappointing.

In doubles Karan and Rohan won their close semis against Kaza and Ranjeet before losing to 2nd seed Russians in doubles super tie-break.