Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Tennis News
At $10K Kazakhstan F3 Futures 2012, Shymkent

[R1] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,473) bt (WC) Kairat Kosherov (KAZ,1717) 61 60

[R2] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,473) vs (Q) Daniiar Duldaev (KGZ,1472)
Expected comfortable winning start for Karan.
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At $10K Qatar F1 futures 2012, Doha

[R1] (Q) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,1797) bt Alexander LAZOV (BUL,1267) 75 46 76(6)

Doubles
[R1] Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) l Alexei FILENKOV (RUS)/ Denys MYLOKOSTOV (UKR) 46 46

Ashwin scored superb comeback win in the singles ... After winning the first set Aswin was up with break at 3-2 but lost his serve twice to lose the second set ... In the third he was 0-3 then 1-4 down but fought back and won tight tie-break to earned another ranking point. Last couple of weeks hot pair lost in the first round.
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At $10K Vietnam F2 Futures 2012, Ho Chi Minh City

[R1] Vignesh Peranamallur (IND,945) l (6) Kittipong Wachiramamowong (THA,566) 67(2) 36
[R1] (5) Rohan Gajjar (IND,537) bt (WC) Nam Hoang Ly (VIE,UNR) 75 62

[R2] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,981) vs (1) Christopher Rungkat (INA,411)
[R2] (5) Rohan Gajjar (IND,537) vs (Q) Dominik Schulz (GER,1496)

So only Rohan and Kaza managed to win their first round in the singles.
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At $15K+H France F7 Futures, Angers
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND,779) l (5) (WC) Jonathan Dasnieres de Veigy (FRA,225) 26 26

Doubles
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Lauren Rochette (FRA) vs Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Giuseppe Menga (ITA)

Lost easily against Frenchman.
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At $15K China F5 Futures, Chengdu

[R1] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,470) vs Yan Bai (CHN,892)

Tough match for Vijayant against local player, who was top 350 in 2011.

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...