Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Tennis News
At $220K Estoril Open, Portugal

[R1] (2) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Eleni Daniilidou GRE)/ Andreja Klepac (SLO) 62 67(5) 10-5

[QF] (2) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA)

Sania needed to dig deep for winning start with her new partner Australian Anastasia Rodionova ... After winning the first set easily they lost the second set in tie-break but Sania and Anastasia kept cool to win STB ... Next they r facing American pair who scored upset win over Spanish pair.
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At $10K India F5 Futures 2012, Chennai

[R1] (1) Vijayant Malik (IND,469) bt Matthieu Vierin (ITA,1212) 75 62
[R1] (Q) Ronak Manuja (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Krishik Divakar (IND,UNR) 62 63
[R1] (Q) Ajai Selvaraj (IND,UNR) bt (WC) Elwin Antony (IND,UNR) 63 36 62
[R1] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,651) bt Vignesh Peranamallur (IND,954) 76(5) 63
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,508) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,887) 63 76(1)
[R1] Abhijeet Tiwari (IND,1218) l (Q) Peter Goldsteiner (AUT,1192) 63 67(3) 0-2 Retd.
[R1] (6) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,696) bt Rupesh ROY (IND,981) 62 2-0 Retd.
[R1] (WC) Vignesh Veerabadran (IND,1803) l (7) Gaetan DE Lovinfosse (BEL,832) 36 06
[R1] (WC) Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND,940) bt (Q) Bruno Pedrosa (POR,UNR) 60 62
[R1] (Q) Saurabh Patil (IND,1728) bt (WC) Kunal Anand (IND,1507) 75 75
[R1] (3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,505) bt (Q) Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1471) 60 61
[R1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,1124) bt Vivek Shokeen (IND,1209) 76(3) 2-0 Retd.
[R1] Rakshay Thakkar (IND,1301) l (Q) Austin Karosi (USA,1524) 67(4) 61 61
[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,959) bt (2) Marc Giner (ESP,479) 63 76(3)

Doubles
[R1] Kunal Anand (IND)/ Ronak Manuja (IND) bt (1) Marc Giner (ESP)/ Mark Vervoort (NED) W/O
[R1] (WC) Elwin Antony (IND)/ Fariz Mohammed (IND) bt (WC) Rishabdev Raman (IND)/ Neeraj Elangovan (IND) 75 64
[R1] (3) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Vinod Sridhar (IND) 64 61
[R1] Abhijeet Tiwari (IND)/ Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND) bt Peter Goldsteiner (AUT)/ Austin Karosi (USA) 63 60
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Vijay Kannan (IND)/ Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan (IND) 75 63
[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND)/ Vivek Shokeen (IND) bt (WC) Ajai Selvaraj (IND)/ Rakshay Thakkar (IND) 63 63
[R1] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND) bt Saurabh Patil (IND)/ Matthieu Vierin (ITA) 62 06 10-4

Abhijeet and Vivek retired from their respective singles matches ... Saurabh Patil scored upset win over Kunal Anand.

Excellent upset by Kaza over 2nd seed Spanish Marc Giner in straight sets ... Also happy to saw wins by Ajai Selvaraj and Saurabh Patil.

Table Tennis News

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