Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Tennis News
At 2013 Junior Davis Cup (B16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group D
(4) India bt Philippines 2-1

Garvit BATRA bt Stefan Agustin SUAREZ 61 61
Sumit NAGAL bt Alberto Jr LIM 60 62
Sumit NAGAL/ Garvit BATRA l Alberto Jr LIM/ Eric Jr OLIVAREZ 46 26

Our boys won their tie against Philippines ... Sumit and Garvit won their respective singles losing only 2 games but surprising loss for them in the doubles ... Tomorrow they will face 6th seed Chinese Taipei for deciding group winner.
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At 2013 Junior Fed Cup (G16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Group C
(3) India l (6) Hong Kong 1-2

Vanshika SAWHNEY l Kwan Yau NG 36 26
Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Claire Yoonkee Choi SPACKMAN 76(3) 64
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Vanshika SAWHNEY l Kwan Yau NG/ Wing Chun LAW 57 63 16

Today Indian team played Vanshika in place of injured Snehadevi ... Vanshika lost her match against Hong Kong #2 Kwan Yau Ng ... After that Pranjala won her match against Hong Kong #1 Claire Yoonkee Choi Spackman but then our pair lost important doubles tie against Hong Kong pair in the third set ... With this loss we fail to qualify quarters.
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At $50K Savannah Challenger, USA (green clay)

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,187) l Facundo Arguello (ARG,193) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) l Tennys Sandgren (USA)/ Rhyne Williams (USA) 36 62 6-10

Turned disappointing challenger for Buji ... He lost in the singles in straight sets against Argentine ... Then in the doubles also Somi lost in the first round with Bozo in match tie-break.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Lucknow

Second Round
(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Preethi UJJINI (IND) 61 60
Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) bt Tanvee BOSE (IND) 61 60
(4) Shweta RANA (IND) bt Smriti JOON (IND) 63 64
Simran Kaur SETHI (IND) bt Shreya PASRICHA (IND) 36 64 61
(6) Eetee MAHETA (IND) bt Damini SHARMA (IND) 64 64
(3) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) 64 63
(8) Emi MUTAGUCHI (JPN) bt Bhuvana KALVA (IND) 60 63
(2) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) bt Sharon Sanchana PAUL (IND) 63 76(5)

Still one seeded Japanese player remains in the draw.

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