Tennis News

ATP Doubles Rankings - 2nd April 2012
7 Leander Paes (IND) 6,015
8 Rohan Bopanna (IND) 4,790
15 Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 3,770

After Miami Masters as expected Lee remain on #7 ... Other hand Rohan climb 4 positions to re-enter in top 10 and Mahesh drop 2 places ... Radek also enter into top -15 ... Only 100 points difference between 8 to 12 ranked players so top 10 race is very crowded and interesting for last 3 places
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At $35K+H St. Brieuc Challenger, France (clay)

[Q2] (7) Divij Sharan (IND) l Tomasz Bednarek (POL,1032) 63 26 67(2)
[Q2] Purav Raja (IND) l (1) Victor Crivoi (ROM,256) 26 46

Missed opportunity for Divij but other hand another fighting performance from Purav against top-250 type player.
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At $10K Kazakhstan F2 Futures 2012, Astana

[R1] Karan Rastogi (IND,) vs (Q) Fedor Doudtchik (BLR,1711)

Karan need to start winning more matches.
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At $10K Saudi Arabia F1 futures 2012, Riyadh

[R1] Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,1606) bt (Q) Gregory HOWE (GBR,UNR) 62 61

Doubles
[R1] Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (4) Jan BLECHA (CZE)/ Lucas RENARD (SWE) 76(5) 64

[QF] Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) vs Antonio GARCIA SANCHEZ (ESP)/ Hasier PASTOR (ESP)

Happy to Ashwin earned his first ATP point of 3 weeks after scoring win over British qualifier.

In doubles this week also Ashwin is playing with Zach and they scored upset win over 4th seed pair in the first round.
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At $10K Vietnam F1 futures 2012,

[R1] (3) Rohan Gajjar (IND,534) vs Jack Carpenter (GBR,1115)
[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,977) vs (WC) Pannhara Mam (CAM,UNR)
[R1] (6) Sriram Balaji (IND,662) vs Leon Frost (AUS,877)
[R1] Vignesh Peranamallur (IND,941) vs Robin Kern (GER,930)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt Nuttanon KADCHAPANAN (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 63 63
[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Constantin BELOT (FRA)/ Kevin BOTTI (FRA) 61 64

[QF] (3) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) vs Blake MOTT (AUS)/ Jack SCHIPANSKI (AUS)
[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) vs Hiromasa OKU (JPN)/ Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN)

Expected winning start in doubles for Indian pairs.