Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Tennis News
At $637K Aegon International, Eastbourne, England

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Paola Suarez (ARG) l Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) 26 Retd.

Paola Suarez was sick so our pair retired after losing the first set.
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At €450K 's-Hertogenbosch Open, The Netherlands

[R1] (4) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 26 57

The first round loss for Lee with different partner so frankly bad preparation for the Wimbledon and the Olympics.
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At $10K Spain F17 Futures, Melilla

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1036) l Ricardo OJEDA LARA (ESP,958) 67(3) 36
[R1] (Q) Mohit MayurJAYAPRAKASH (IND,1133) l Andoni VIVANCO-GUZMAN (ESP,725) 36 36

Doubles
[QF] Eric GARCIA DRESPO (ESP)/ Mohit MayurJAYAPRAKASH (IND) l (4) Alejandro ANDINO VALLVERDU (ESP)/ Andoni VIVANCO-GUZMAN (ESP) 67(6) 46
[QF] (2) Michael LOOK (AUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs Roberto ORTEGA-OLMEDO (ESP)/ Adam SANJURJO HERMIDA (ESP)

In the singles disappointed run continued.

Mayur and his partner lost in the doubles quarters against 4th seed Spanish pair.

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At $10K Germany F6 Futures, Koeln (clay)

[R1] (8) Vijayant MALIK (IND,454) vs Dennis BLOEMKE (GER,579)
[R1] Saketh MYNENI (IND,514) l (3) Germain GIGOUNON (BEL,387) 16 16

Doubles
[R1] Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) l (3) Miguel-Angel REYES-VARELA (MEX)/ Bruno RODRIGUEZ (MEX) 63 16 6-10

This was Saketh's first match on the clay and that was also against top-400 European, still I was hoping for better scoreline.

In doubles also our pair lost against third seed Mexican pair in match tie-break.

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,...