Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) bt Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ,1359) 60 62

[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) Vs Farrukh Dustov (UZB,229)

Yuki scored very dominating win against local wild-card pair inside an hour ... Yuki dominated in all stats ... Very good moral boosting win for Yuki.
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At $50K Wuhan Challenger, China

[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,465) l (5) Ze Zhang (CHN,181) 36 63 26
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,397) l Benjamin Balleret (MON,403) 36 06

Doubles
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Laurent Rochette (FRA) bt Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN) 64 75

Very disappointing performance by Jeevan ... From 3-4 he lost next 8 games in a row against similar ranked opponent ... Other hand Vijayant gave decent fighting performance against local top-200 player ... After losing the first set he fought back to win the second but in the final set Zhang broke him twice to win this set comfortably ... With this disappointed end of Chinese challengers tour for Jeevan and Vijayant, who failed to win a single match in two weeks.

Purav and his French partner scored good fighting win over Chinese top pair in straight sets.

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,...