Tennis News
At 1.78M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship, UAE
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,315) bt (Q) Igor Kunitsyn (RUS,167) 61 64
Before this match Somdev lost in all three meetings against Kunitsyn but those losses were in 2008/09 ... In this match Somdev started aggressively and take early break to lead 3-1 ... He again broke Kunitsyn in 6th game and won the first set in 22 minutes ... In the second set also Somi started with breaking Kunitsyn's serve in 1st game to lead 2-0 but Kunitsyn broke him in 4th game to make it 2-all ... Kunitsyn improved level of game in this set but Somi take advantage of couple of errors from Kunitsyn and broke him in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... This break proved important as Somi hold his next 2 service games and completed the victory ... With this win Somi earned 45 ranking points which will push his ranking inside top-250 ... Somi will be India's #1 on next ranking updates on 4th March ... In the second round Somi will face winner between WR #7 Del Potro and #36 Baghdatis.
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At $50K Sydney 1 Challenger, Australia
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,295) bt (1) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,137)
[R2] Sanam Singh (IND,295) vs James Duckworth (AUS,238)
Doubles
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Stephane Robert (FRA) 76(3) 46 10-6
Sanam scored huge upset win over top-150 Sugita in the straight sets ... This was close match over 2 hours ... After winning the first set in tie-break Sanam take 5-2 lead in the second before winning it ... Really good win against talented and top-seed Yuichi Sugita ... Now he need to show consistency with his results
Divij and Purav needed match tie-break for victory against French-Aussie pair ... After winning the first set in tie-break Divij and Purav lost the second before winning match tie-break.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F2 Futures, Aktobe
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,257) bt (PR) Richard Becker (GER,830) 75 61
[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,257) vs Marek Semjan (SVK,452)
Doubles
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) bt Kaysar Bekimov (KAZ)/ Yan Sabanin (RUS) 64 61
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) vs Nurdaulen Baimakhanov (KAZ)/ Alexey Kedryuk (KAZ)
Expected winning start for Yuki in the singles and doubles ... Next he is facing last week's finalist Semjan.
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At $10K India F1 Futures, Chennai
Singles First Round
(1) Victor CRIVOI (ROU) bt Filippo LEONARDI (ITA) 62 62
Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 64 61
(WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 46 5-3 Retd.
(Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (8) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) 26 63 63
(4) Thales TURINI (BRA) bt Caio SILVA (BRA) 2-2 Retd.
(Q) Mats MORAING (GER) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND) 63 75
(WC) Mohd Assri MERZUKI (MAS) bt (Q) Katsushi FUKUDA (JPN) 64 64
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Augusto LARANJA (BRA) 64 26 75
(7) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND) 76(3) 63
Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt (Q) Patrick CIORCILA (ROU) 76(7) 62
Giulio TORRONI (ITA) bt (Q) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 63 36 75
(3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE) 64 62
(6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Claudio FORTUNA (ITA) 26 63 64
(Q) Tom SCHONENBERG (GER) bt (WC) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 75
(PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 76(4) 62
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Maximilian DINSLAKEN (GER) 60 63
Doubles First Round
(1) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Austin KAROSI (USA)/ Libor SALABA (CZE) 61 46 10-7
Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Chandril SOOD (IND) 61 61
(ALT) Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Petar TOMIC (SRB) bt (WC) Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 75 63
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Patrick CIORCILA (ROU)/ Victor CRIVOI (ROU) 64 75
(ALT) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE)/ Chih-Jen HO (TPE) bt Filippo LEONARDI (ITA)/ Giulio TORRONI (ITA) 62 57 10-3
(3) Augusto LARANJA (BRA)/ Thales TURINI (BRA) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND)/ Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) 62 64
(WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Claudio FORTUNA (ITA)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 64 62
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 61
After long time Vivek scored upset win as an qualifier against Japanese 8th seed.
At 1.78M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship, UAE
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,315) bt (Q) Igor Kunitsyn (RUS,167) 61 64
Before this match Somdev lost in all three meetings against Kunitsyn but those losses were in 2008/09 ... In this match Somdev started aggressively and take early break to lead 3-1 ... He again broke Kunitsyn in 6th game and won the first set in 22 minutes ... In the second set also Somi started with breaking Kunitsyn's serve in 1st game to lead 2-0 but Kunitsyn broke him in 4th game to make it 2-all ... Kunitsyn improved level of game in this set but Somi take advantage of couple of errors from Kunitsyn and broke him in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... This break proved important as Somi hold his next 2 service games and completed the victory ... With this win Somi earned 45 ranking points which will push his ranking inside top-250 ... Somi will be India's #1 on next ranking updates on 4th March ... In the second round Somi will face winner between WR #7 Del Potro and #36 Baghdatis.
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At $50K Sydney 1 Challenger, Australia
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,295) bt (1) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,137)
[R2] Sanam Singh (IND,295) vs James Duckworth (AUS,238)
Doubles
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Stephane Robert (FRA) 76(3) 46 10-6
Sanam scored huge upset win over top-150 Sugita in the straight sets ... This was close match over 2 hours ... After winning the first set in tie-break Sanam take 5-2 lead in the second before winning it ... Really good win against talented and top-seed Yuichi Sugita ... Now he need to show consistency with his results
Divij and Purav needed match tie-break for victory against French-Aussie pair ... After winning the first set in tie-break Divij and Purav lost the second before winning match tie-break.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F2 Futures, Aktobe
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,257) bt (PR) Richard Becker (GER,830) 75 61
[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,257) vs Marek Semjan (SVK,452)
Doubles
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) bt Kaysar Bekimov (KAZ)/ Yan Sabanin (RUS) 64 61
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) vs Nurdaulen Baimakhanov (KAZ)/ Alexey Kedryuk (KAZ)
Expected winning start for Yuki in the singles and doubles ... Next he is facing last week's finalist Semjan.
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At $10K India F1 Futures, Chennai
Singles First Round
(1) Victor CRIVOI (ROU) bt Filippo LEONARDI (ITA) 62 62
Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 64 61
(WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 46 5-3 Retd.
(Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt (8) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN) 26 63 63
(4) Thales TURINI (BRA) bt Caio SILVA (BRA) 2-2 Retd.
(Q) Mats MORAING (GER) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND) 63 75
(WC) Mohd Assri MERZUKI (MAS) bt (Q) Katsushi FUKUDA (JPN) 64 64
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Augusto LARANJA (BRA) 64 26 75
(7) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND) 76(3) 63
Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt (Q) Patrick CIORCILA (ROU) 76(7) 62
Giulio TORRONI (ITA) bt (Q) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 63 36 75
(3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE) 64 62
(6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Claudio FORTUNA (ITA) 26 63 64
(Q) Tom SCHONENBERG (GER) bt (WC) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 75
(PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 76(4) 62
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Maximilian DINSLAKEN (GER) 60 63
Doubles First Round
(1) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Austin KAROSI (USA)/ Libor SALABA (CZE) 61 46 10-7
Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Chandril SOOD (IND) 61 61
(ALT) Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Petar TOMIC (SRB) bt (WC) Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Rakshay THAKKAR (IND) 75 63
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Patrick CIORCILA (ROU)/ Victor CRIVOI (ROU) 64 75
(ALT) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE)/ Chih-Jen HO (TPE) bt Filippo LEONARDI (ITA)/ Giulio TORRONI (ITA) 62 57 10-3
(3) Augusto LARANJA (BRA)/ Thales TURINI (BRA) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND)/ Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) 62 64
(WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Claudio FORTUNA (ITA)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 64 62
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 61
After long time Vivek scored upset win as an qualifier against Japanese 8th seed.
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