Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Tennis News
At 2012 u-16 Asia/Oceania Junior Davis and Fed Cup Final Qualifying, Bendigo, Australia

Junior Davis Cup - Group C
(3) India bt Malaysia 3-0

R1 - Sahil Deshmukh bt Low Kar Win 46 60 62
R2 - Sumit Nagal bt Colin Wong 61 61
R3 - Sumit Nagal/ Fatehdeep Singh bt Ahmad Faez/ Colin Wong 62 62

(3) India vs Hong Kong 1-0
R1 - Sahil Deshmukh bt Chak Pong Lam 63 36 4-3 Retd.
R2 - Sumit Nagal vs Ho Hin Pak
R3 - Sahil Deshmukh/ Sumit Nagal vs Chak Pong Lam/ Ho Hin Pak


Junior Fed Cup - Group A
(1) India bt Philippines 3-0

R1 - Snehadevi Reddy bt Roxanne May Resma 60 63
R2 - Rutuja Bhosale bt Maria Angela Sunga 62 61
R3 - Rutuja Bhosale/ Simran Kaur Sethi bt Katrina Orteza/ Roxanne May Resma 62 61

(1) India bt Vietnam 2-0

R1 - Simran Kaur Sethi bt Pham Thuy Thuong 60 60
R2 - Snehadevi Reddy bt Si Boi Ngoc 60 60
R3 - Rutuja Bhosale/ Simran Kaur Sethi vs Si Boi Ngoc/ Dao Minh Trang

Very dominating start in u-16 Fed cup by our girls ... After winning first match comfortably against Malaysia they r leading 2-0 against Vietnam before rain-break.

In boys Davis cup, as expected Sumit Nagal won his match comfortably but Sahil;s struggle against these lower ranked players is worrisome for India ... Next he will face tougher challenge of Chinese player.

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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures 2012, Namangan

[R2] (5) Karan Rastogi (IND,452) bt Sarvar Ikramov (UZB,630) 64 64
[R2] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) bt (Q) Daniiar Duldaev (KGZ) 61 76(3)

[QF] (5) Karan Rastogi (IND,452) vs (1) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR,279)
[QF] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) vs (8) Mikhail Vasiliev (RUS,495)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l Vladyslav Manafov (UKR)/ Yaraslau Shyla (BLR) 16 63 7-10

Karan and Vishnu r in the quarters ... Next they r facing former top-250 players.
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At $10K India F5 Futures 2012, Madurai

[R2] (WC) (1) Vijayant Malik (IND,474) bt Marin Bradaric (CRO,973) W/O
[R2] (6) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,708) vs Lorenzo Frigerio (ITA,1114)
[R2] Rupesh Roy (IND,979) vs (7) Gaetan De Lovinfosse (BEL,830)
[R2] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,516) bt Vignesh Peranamallur (IND,985) 62 62
[R2] (3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,503) vs Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,903)
[R2] (5) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,657) bt (Q) Vivek Shokeen (IND,1332) 63 64
[R2] (WC) Elwin Antony (IND,UNR) vs (2) Marc Giner (ESP,479)

Good to see our 3 players r in the quarters in this rain affected tournament.

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