Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Tennis News
At $220K Estoril Open, Portugal

[QF] (2) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Lindsay Lee-Waters (USA)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 60 64

[SF] (2) Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (3) Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)/ Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)

Sania and Anastasia scored comfortable straight sets victory over American pair ... After losing the first set without winning a single game American tried to fightback in the second but pair of Sania and Anastasia proved too strong for them ... In the semis Sania and Anastasia is playing against 3rd seed Kazakh pair Shvedova and Voskoboeva.
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At $10K India F5 Futures 2012, Chennai

[R2] (1) Vijayant Malik (IND,469) bt (Q) Ronak Manuja (IND,UNR) 75 63
[R2] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,651) bt (Q) Ajai Selvaraj (IND,UNR) 62 76(2)
[R2] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,508) l Mark Vervoort (NED,931) 57 26
[R2] (6) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,696) bt (Q) Peter Goldsteiner (AUT,1192) 64 62
[R2] (WC) Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND,940) bt (7) Gaetan De Lovinfosse (BEL,832) 64 76(3)
[R2] (3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,505) bt (Q) Saurabh Patil (IND,1728) 63 61
[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,1124) l Joss Espasandin (SUI,1094) 57 16
[R2] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,959) l (Q) Austin Karosi (USA,1524) 46 46

Doubles
[QF] (WC) Elwin Antony (IND)/ Fariz Mohammed (IND) bt Kunal Anand (IND)/ Ronak Manuja (IND) 36 62 10-7
[QF] Abhijeet Tiwari (IND)/ Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND) bt (3) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) 67(4) 76(5) 10-3
[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Gaetan De Lovinfosse (BEL)/ Yannick Vandenbulcke (BEL) 62 64
[QF] Rupesh Roy (IND)/ Vivek Shokeen (IND) bt (2) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND) 63 61

Jeevan lost in straight sets against Dutch player ... Kaza also failed to keep his winning momentum after beating 2nd seed Spanish player.

Vijayant, Sriram Balaji, Vijay Sundar and Ranjeet won their respective matches ... Ashwin Vijayragavan scored another upset win, this time on 7th seed Belgian player.

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,...