Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Tennis News
At $15K USA F7 Futures, Calabasas

[R1] (6) Sanam Singh (IND,316) bt Ji Sung Nam (KOR,474) 64 63
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,432) l Darian King (BAR,486) 46 62 57
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,395) vs Juan Carlos Saez (CHI,398)

Doubles
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (1) Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Tennys Sandgren (USA) 62 60

[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (WC) Kevin King (USA)/ Dennis Nevolo (USA)

Sanam started with straight sets victory over Nam ... In doubles he gave terrific hammering to top-seed with Saketh.

Prakash lost in the first round ... Mostly lack of match practice was the reason.

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At $10K India F3 Futures, Trichy

Singles Second Round
(WC) Patrick CIORCILA (ROU,987) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,960) 63 63
(7) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,564) bt Maximilian DINSLAKEN (GER,751) 76(3) 76(0)
(Q) Mats MORAING (GER,1672) bt Claudio FORTUNA (ITA,680) 67(9) 60 1-0 Retd.
Filippo LEONARDI (ITA,732) bt (6) Vijayant MALIK (IND,541) 62 62
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,526) bt Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI,832) 57 61 75
(4) Thales TURINI (BRA,441) bt (Q) Elwin ANTONY (IND,1496) 64 76(1)
(8) Augusto LARANJA (BRA,621) bt (LL) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND,1895) 63 60
(PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA,UNR) bt (Q) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE,1221) 63 61

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Caio SILVA (BRA)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 75 63
Filippo LEONARDI (ITA)/ Giulio TORRONI (ITA) bt (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 64 64
(3) Maximilian DINSLAKEN (GER)/ Laslo URRUTIA FUENTES (CHI) bt Patrick CIORCILA (ROU)/ Victor CRIVOI (ROU) W/O
(2) Augusto LARANJA (BRA)/ Thales TURINI (BRA) bt (WC) Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Petar TOMIC (SRB) 62 63

Only 2 Indian players r in the singles quarters and VSP having real chance of moving ahead.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Hyderabad

Singles Second Round
(1) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) bt Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND) 63 61
Bhuvana KALVA (IND) bt Michaela FRLICKA (GER) 63 64
(3) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Napatsakorn SANKAEW (THA) 62 61
(5) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) bt Sanae OHTA (JPN) 63 62
(7) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Anushka BHARGAVA (IND) 61 60
Varunya WONGTEANCHAI (THA) bt Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) 61 62
Barbara LUZ (POR) bt (8) Shweta RANA (IND) 63 62
(2) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) bt Eetee MAHETA (IND) 62 62

Good win by Bhuvana Kalva against her German opponent ... Rana lost against Portugal girl but otherwise expected results for Indian girls.

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