Sunday, December 30, 2012

Tennis News
At $450K Aircel Chennai Open 2013, India

[Q1] (1) Ruben Bemelmans (BEL,111) bt (WC) Ajai Selvaraj (IND,1127) 61 60
[Q1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,344) bt Sanam Singh (IND,297) 67(3) 64 63
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,929) bt (WC) Vignesh Peranamallur (IND,1125) 63 63
[Q1] Vijayant Malik (IND,539) bt N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,572) 46 63 75
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,549) bt (3) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,117) 64 36 63
[Q1] Theodoros Angelinos (GRE,502) bt (WC) Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1545) 62 60
[Q1] Saketh Myneni (IND,384) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND,996) 63 64
[Q1] (4) Kenny De Schepper (FRA,119) bt Arjun Kadhe (IND,1106) 61 62
[Q1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,328) bt (WC) Elwin Antony (IND,1515) 63 64
[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,1015) bt Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND,812) 75 63
[Q1] (5) Rajeev Ram (USA,132) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,796) 64 61

[Q2] (1) Ruben Bemelmans (BEL,111) bt Vishnu Vardhan (IND,344) 64 46 61
[Q2] Filip Krajinovic (SRB,420) bt Sidharth Rawat (IND,929) 63 62
[Q2] (6) Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER,177) bt Vijayant Malik (IND,539) 62 46 75
[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,549) bt Theodoros Angelinos (GRE,502) 64 64
[Q2] (4) Kenny De Schepper (FRA,119) bt N. Sriram Balaji (IND,328) 64 36 61
[Q2] (5) Rajeev Ram (USA,132) bt Divij Sharan (IND,1015) 60 36 61
[Q2] (7) James Ward (GBR,250) bt Saketh Myneni (IND,384) 36 63 64

As expected cracker match between Sanam and Vishnu which lasted for 2 hours and 20 minutes ... Despite struggling with his 1st serve Sanam produced fighting performance against Vishnu ... After a win Vishnu played excellent second qualifying round against top-seed Ruben Bemelmans in first 2 sets before tiredness in the final ... Vijayant also played excellent match against Stebe ... In the fianl set Vijayant was early break down but fought back breaking Stebe in 8th game but Stebe broke him 11th game for a win ... Superb win by Prkash over in-form Sugita in three sets ... In the second qualifying round Prakash scored comfortable straight games with a single break in both sets over Angelinos ... In other match Balaji was break down after losing the first set against De Schepper but Balaji broke back to make it 3-all ... Bala again broke De Schepper in 8th game and won the second set after winning 4 games in a row from 2-3 ... In the final set De Schepper broke Balaji in 2nd game and take 3-0 lead and with another break of serve De Schepper won this set comfortably ... Rajeev started confidently and won the first set without losing a single game against Divij ... Divij fought back in the second and managed to win it despite failing to won a single game in the first set ... In the third Rajeev dominated winning it breaking Divij twice ... Saketh had excellent start against Ward ... He won the first set but then failed to keep momentum in next two sets and lost them with a single break ... In the final set Saketh was up with a break at 4-2 but Ward won next 4 games breaking Saketh's serve twice.

Prakash having a very good chance for qualifying for the main-draw ... In the final qualifying he is facing Britisher James Ward.

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