Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Tennis News
At $10K India F16 Futures, Dharwad

[R2] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,347) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,955) 64 2-0 Retd.
[R2] (Q) Torsten WIETOSKA (GER,1508) bt Jeroen BENARD (NED,926) 62 60
[R2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1083) bt (4) Vijayant MALIK (IND,539) 75 3-1 Retd.
[R2] Arjun KADHE (IND,1224) bt Luca MARGAROLI (SUI,1025) 62 75
[R2] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,573) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,1270) 63 63
[R2] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,534) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,1923) 63 64
[R2] Colin VAN BEEM (NED,1076) bt (6) Sergei KROTIOUK (RUS,671) 63 67(6) 62
[R2] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,360) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,904) 63 62

Doubles Final
[QF] Amrit NARASIMHAN (USA)/ Michael SHABAZ (USA) bt (1) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 76(5) 64
[QF] Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Arjun KADHE (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 62 1-0 Retd.
[QF] Ajai SELVARAJ (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 63 64
[QF] (2) Sergei KROTIOUK (RUS)/ Luca MARGAROLI (SUI) bt William KENDALL (USA)/ Sagar MANJANNA (IND) 76(1) 63

Surprisngly couple of retirement in the second round matches ... Both matches were between Indians, Ramkumar was up with break in the second after winning the first and in the second match Balaji was also up with break in the second after winning the first set ... Sanam comfortably won his match ... German qualifier Wietoska and Dutch Beem also entered in the quarters with upset wins ... Arjun continued with his good run and scored win over his Swiss opponent ... Very interesting quarter-final between him and Ramkumar ... Expected win by Vijay Sundar and Ranjeet.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[R2] Ankita RAINA (IND,574) l Ho Ching WU (HKG,743) 46 57

Ankita failed to build on her first round upset win ... Lost against lowly ranked Hong Kong player.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Djibouti

[R2] (8) Shweta RANA (IND,835) bt Brenda NJUKI (SWE,UNR) 62 Retd.
[R2] Manya NAGPAL (IND,UNR) l (4) Melanie KLAFFNER (AUT,434) 06 06
[R2] Anushka BHARGAVA (IND,1042) l (5) Yana SIZIKOVA (RUS,579) 36 16
[R1] Arantxa ANDRADY (IND,UNR) l (2) Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS,352) 64 57 36

[QF] (8) Shweta RANA (IND,835) vs (1) Anna FLORIS (ITA,245)

Doubles
[QF] Manya NAGPAL (IND)/ Rika YAMAMOTO (JPN) l (3) Alessia CAMPLONE (ITA)/ Anna FLORIS (ITA) 06 26
[QF] Nikita DESHMUKH (IND)/ Chinenye Ndidi IZUOGU (NGR) l (2) Diana BOGOLIY (UKR)/ Yana SIZIKOVA (RUS) 06 06

Only Shweta won her singles match but Arantxa gave encouraging performance against top-350 Russian opponent.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Potchefstroom, South Africa

[R2] Sharon Sanchana PAUL (IND,1066) l Ilze HATTINGH (RSA,UNR) 26 16

Sharon lost against local junior player without giving much fight.

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