Monday, February 06, 2012

Tennis News
At $220K Pattaya Open, Thailand

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,111) vs Ayumi Morita (JPN,64)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) vs Iryna Bremond (FRA)/ Caroline Garcia (FRA)

Sania is having tricky opener against Japanese top player in the singles ... I feel unnecessarily she is playing in the doubles in this lower level tournament.
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At $50K Caloundra Challenger, Australia

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,340) vs (Q) Nima Roshan (AUS,828)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Matthew Barton (AUS)/ Michael Look (AUS)

Vishnu having good opportunity to score the first round win against local qualifier in the singles.

As expected Divij and Vishnu climb in their doubles rankings ... Divij is on #145 (one place behind Purav) and Vishnu is on #182.

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At $100K Dallas Challenger, Texas, USA

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,306) vs (4) Tobias Kamke (GER,88)

Doubles
[Q1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Vladimir Obradovic (SRB) bt (WC) Lance Hagan (USA)/ Ryan Haley (USA) 61 64

[Q2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Vladimir Obradovic (SRB) vs (2) Michael McClune (USA)/ Philip Simmonds (USA)

Yuki is facing tough opener against top-90 German Kamke in this big challenger and in doubles he is playing final doubles qualifying round with Serbian Vladimir Obradovic.
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At $50K+H Quimper Challenger, France

[R1] (4) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Pablo Carreno-Busta (ESP)/ Joao Sousa (POR)

Last year Purav played few challengers with Frenchman Olivier Charroin and had decent results ... This week he is partnering him in Quimper challenger.
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At $15K China F3, Mengzi

[R1] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,513) vs (1) Vincent MILLOT (FRA,311)
[R1] (7) Vijayant MALIK (IND,472) vs (Q) Hung-Yuan HSU (TPE,1906)
[R1] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,404) vs (Q) Nian FENG (CHN,1426)

Doubles
[R1] Austin KAROSI (USA)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) vs (4) Norbert GOMBOS (SVK)/ Jozef KOVALIK (SVK)
[R1] (2) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) vs Yu Cheng LI (CHN)/ Bei LIU (CHN)

Rohan is having very tough draw ... He is facing top-seed Frenchman Millot and our other 2 players r facing qualifiers.

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