Monday, July 16, 2012

Tennis News
At $740K Mercury Insurance Open, Carlsbad, USA

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) 75 46 5-10

Taipei pair take early lead breaking Sania in 5th game but Sania and Bethanie came back strongly winning 4 games from 3-5 to won this set ... In the second set Taipei pair take crucial break in 7th game and hold their service games to won it ... In match tie-break Taipei pair was better and won this comfortably.
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At $50K Penza Challenger, Russia

[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,220) bt Divij Sharan (IND,1066) 62 63

[R2] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,220) vs James McGee (IRL,356)

Expected easy win for Yuki but Divij managed to break him 3 times in this match ... Yuki need to work on his serve to show more consistency in his result ... Next Yuki is facing Irish player.
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At $10K India F10 Futures, Coimbatore

[R1] (1) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,477) bt (Q) Shantanu RAJPUT (IND,UNR) 62 61
[R1] Yang LU (CHN,1214) bt (WC) Jatin DAHIYA (IND,1522) 64 60
[R1] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1211) bt Austin KAROSI (USA,1262) 76(6) 63
[R1] (6) Karunuday SINGH (IND,816) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,946) 76(3) 67(3) 75
[R1] (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,753) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,927) 61 67(6) 64
[R1] (LL) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,1709) bt (WC) Rajat MAHESHWARI (IND,1620) 76(4) 76(5)
[R1] Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1298) bt (Q) Rishabdev RAMAN (IND,UNR) 62 62
[R1] (8) Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS,924) bt (Q) Aaditya TEWARI (IND,UNR) 64 63
[R1] (7) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,851) bt Kunal ANAND (IND,1347) 61 64
[R1] Sudanwa SITARAM (IND,1522) bt Elwin ANTONY (IND,1490) 64 63
[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1228) bt (Q) Garvit BATRA (IND,UNR) 62 62
[R1] (3) Suk-Young JEONG (KOR,680) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND,1473) 61 60
[R1] (5) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,UNR) 61 64
[R1] (Q) Jae-Min SEOL (KOR,1420) bt (WC) U M Gugan VERMA (IND,UNR) 62 63
[R1] (WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Saurabh SINGH (IND,UNR) 57 64 75
[R1] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,503) bt Rakshay THAKKAR (IND,1317) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Vigneshwaran RAMESH (IND)/ Naveen SAAI (IND) 75 62
[R1] Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR)/ Jae-Min SEOL (KOR) bt Roy HOBBS (SIN)/ Austin KAROSI (USA) 57 61 10-3
[R1] (3) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 76(4) 63
[R1] Suk-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 26 76(2) 10-6
[R1] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sudanwa SITARAM (IND) bt Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND)/ Rajat MAHESHWARI (IND) 76(6) 61
[R1] (4) Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 64 76(11)
[R1] Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Shahbaaz KHAN (IND)/ Yang LU (CHN) 62 76(3)
[R1] (2) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt (WC) Bharatram BALAJEE (IND)/ U M Gugan VERMA (IND) 62 63

As expected very entertaining match between Karunuday and Sidharth Rawat ... Kaza also gave very fighting performance against Vijay Sundar ... Also unknown local player Vigneshwaran Ramesh earned his first ranking point ... Overall expected results.
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At $10K USA F20 Futures, Joplin, USA

[R1] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,429) vs (WC) Nick Papac (USA,UNR)

Saman is coming back on the court after long injury/ health 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,...