Sunday, April 29, 2012

Tennis News
At $125K+H Kaohsiung Challenger, Chinese Taipei

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij SHaran (IND) l (4) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Hsin-Han Lee (TPE) 62 36 4-10

Purav and Divij lost against local 4th seed pair after winning the first set ... They started well but Taipei pair came back strongly from the second.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures 2012, Andijan

Singles Final
(3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) bt Ivan Sergeyev (UKR,526) 63 76(1)

Vishnu lifted his first title abroad and overall fifth futures title ... What a performance from Vishnu to lift his first title abroad beating top-250 caliber Ignatik in the semis and last week's winner Ivan Sergeyev in the final ... Much needed victory for Vishnu
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At $10K India F5 Futures 2012, Madurai

Singles Final
(4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,516) bt (2) Marc Giner (ESP,479) 46 61 76(4)

[SF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,516) bt (WC) (1) Vijayant Malik (IND,474) 62 63
[SF] (2) Marc Giner (ESP,479) bt (8) Yannick Vandenbulcke (BEL,877) 76(3) 63

Good to see Jeevan defeated top 2 seeds on a same day to lift his third futures title ... Now he need to show consistency in $15K and $15K+H Futures at home and abroad before shifting to challenger level.

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,...