Monday, August 27, 2012

Tennis News
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA

Men's Doubles
[R2] (5) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Dustin Brown (GER)/ Christopher Kas (GER)
[R1] (8) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS)

Women's Doubles
[R1] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Alberta Brianti (ITA)/ Sorana Cirstea (ROU)

Doubles draw is out ... Lee and Radek r in top-draw with 3rd seed Lindstedt and Tecau ... Mahesh and Rohan r in bottom draw with 4th seed Poles, Fyrstenberg and Matkowski.

Sania and Bethanie r in bottom draw with 2nd seed Italians Errani and Vinci.

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At $50K Bangkok-1 Challenger, Thailand

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,263) vs Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN,343)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Kirati Siributwong (THA)/ Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana (THA) 62 63

[QF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA)/ Kittipong Wachiramanowong (THA)

Expected easy winning start for Vishnu and Divij against local Thai pair ... Next they r facing another wild-card pair.

In the singles Vishnu is facing Japanese ... If he wins then he can face 2nd seed local favorite Danai Udomchoke.

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At $35K+H Como Challenger, Italy

[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Andrei Daescu (ROU)/ Adam Hubble (AUS)

This week Purav is playing with Canadian Adil Shamasdin.
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At $15K Iran F1 Futures, Esfahan (clay)

[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,375) vs (Q) Shoah Rotagh (IRI,UNR)
[R1] (4) Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND,492) vs Shahin Khaledan (IRI,1288)
[R1] Chandril Sood (IND,1474) vs (Q) Mohamadreza Kazemi (IRI,UNR)
[R1] Lakshit Sood (IND,UNR) vs Jamshid Ilmuradov (TKM,UNR)
[R1] (6) N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND,633) vs Mo Niaki (CAN,1377)
[R1] Kunal Anand (IND,1373) vs (WC) Hamid Reza Nadaf (IRI,UNR)
[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,393) vs (Q) Mohammed Mohazebina (IRI,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] Kunal Anand (IND)/ Mohammed Mohazebnia (IRI) vs Alborz Akhavan Roufigar (IRI)/ Mohsen Hossein Zade (IRI)
[R1] Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) vs Hamidreza Aleyasin (IRI)/ Anoosha Shahgholi (IRI)
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND) vs (WC) Salar Saraydarpour (USA)/ Eric Vehovec (CAN)
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) vs Sarvar Ikramov (UZB)/ Sergey Shipilov (UZB)

Good to see our players r participating in this weaker futures in Iran.

Table Tennis News

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