Thursday, August 30, 2012

Tennis News
At Davis cup 2012 - Asia/Oceania Group I, Chandigarh, India

Team - Vishnu Vardhan, Yuki Bhambri, Sanam Singh and Saketh Myneni
Reserved - Divij Sharan and N. Sri Ram Balaji
Davis cup captain - S.P Misra

Though I m happy that AITA decided to choose young players as in preparation of building strong junior team still I m not happy with omission of Divij Sharan from the team ... He was only true doubles specialist from short-listed six players ... It would be better if they selected Divij in place of Saketh in the team ... Otherwise expected selection for this Davis cup tie.
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At $15K Iran F1 Futures, Esfahan (clay)

[R2] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,375) bt (Q) Rouzbeh Kamran (IRI,UNR) 62 75
[R2] (4) Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND,492) bt Chandril Sood (IND,1474) 62 46 62
[R2] Lakshit Sood (IND,UNR) l (7) Sarvar Ikramov (UZB,643) 36 26
[R2] (6) N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND,633) bt Anoosha Shahgholi (IRI,1741) 62 16 64
[R2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,393) bt Kunal Anand (IND,1373) 60 75

[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,375) bt (8) Marc Abodulnour (SYR,1257) 62 61
[QF] (4) Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND,492) bt Amirvala Madanchi (IRI,UNR) 63 75
[QF] (6) N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND,633) bt (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,393) 36 75 61

Doubles
[QF] Kunal Anand (IND)/ Mohammed Mohazebnia (IRI) l (1) Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Michal Schmid (CZE) 36 67(5)
[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND) bt Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) 62 64
[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) bt Shahin Khaledan (IRI)/ Farshad Talavar (IRI) 64 76(5)

[SF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) bt (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND) 76(2) 61

Good to see our three players in the singles semis ... Sriram Balaji performing like top-seed ... Also happy to see Ranjeet is performing as per his ranking ... Vijay Sundar scored upset win over 2nd seed Jeevan.

In the doubles our 2nd seed pair Balaji and Ranjeet r in the final ... Next they r facing top-seed Czech pair.

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At $10K Poland F6 Futures, Legnica

[QF] (WC) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,1537) l (3) Adam Pavlasek (CZE,546) 26 26

Young 17 yrs in-form Polish player proved too strong for Prajnesh but still creditable performance by him to reach in the quarters as an qualifier and that's also on clay.

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