Monday, April 29, 2013

Tennis News
At $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger, South Africa,

[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND,994) l Jean Andersen (RSA,755) 36 46
[R1] (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,1154) l (3) Vasek Pospisil (CAN,130) 26 46

Doubles
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) bt Thiago Alves (BRA)/ Augusto Laranja (BRA) 61 63

Purav and Divij lost in the first round of main-draw.

Prakash and Rajeev had comfortable winning start against Brazilian pair in the doubles.

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At $15K India F4 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 63 61
Austin KAROSI (USA) bt (WC) Ranjeet SINGH (IND) 64 64
Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND) 76(5) 63
(7) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (Q) Anvit BENDRE (IND) 63 61
(LL) Sagar AHUJA (IND) bt (Q) Nischay RAWAL (IND) 64 16 64
(Q) Rakshit RISHI (IND) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 06 64 75
(Q) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS) 75 64
(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 63 36 60
(6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (WC) Lakshit SOOD (IND) 75 63
(Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 3-0 Retd.
Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (Q) Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) 62 2-0 Retd.
(4) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 76(4) 63
(5) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (Q) Saurabh PATIL (IND) 75 61
Kunal ANAND (IND) bt (Q) Gurinder SINGH (IND) 75 75
Jatin DAHIYA (IND) bt (WC) Ojas RATHI (IND) 60 61
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (WC) Pranav SURI (IND) 62 64

Doubles First Round
(1) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Deepinder BAINS (IND)/ Anubhav Chaudhary CHAUDHARY (IND) 64 60
Lakshit SOOD (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt (WC) Rohit SARWATE (IND)/ Ranjeet SINGH (IND) 60 62
(3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 75 64
Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (WC) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Ajay YADAV (IND) 36 63 10-4
Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Saurabh PATIL (IND) 76(1) 62
(4) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (WC) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 61 64
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) bt Rutger CRAMER (NED)/ Neishit VAKIL (IND) 62 60
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 76(9) 64

Only upset of the first day was from qualifier Rakshit Rishi, who scored upset comeback victory against Selvaraj.

Sanam withdrew from his home futures (may be he is still injured.) ... Only one foreigner is still remain in the draw ... Qualifier Fariz Mohammed scored upset win over Aussie Itzstein ... Vivek, and Neeraj retired from their respective matches ... Vishnu needed tie-break in the first set to win against Vignesh.

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