Friday, May 31, 2013

Tennis News
At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE) l Cara Black (ZIM)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)26 36

Junior Qualifying
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,78) l (16) Simon Friis Soendergaard (DEN,71) 16 16
[Q1] (13) Snehadevi S Reddy (IND,76) l (WC) Naiktha Bains (AUS,103) 36 46
[Q1] Simran Kaur Sethi (IND,114) l (9) Beatrecia Lombardo (ITA,65) 26 36

Disappointing loss for top-seed Sania and Robert, who managed to win only 5 games in their first round against Cara and Aisam.

Our all junior players lost in the first qualifying round ... Surprised to see this one-sided loss of Sumit against similar ranked Danish opponent ... This 15 yrs old Naiktha Bains looks very talented.

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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles Semi Finals
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) 76(5) 76(6)
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) 75 75

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) 61 64

Prajnesh continues with his good run and scored upset win over Karunuday in tight two sets ... Karunuday was showing form as last week he reached the final at Thai futures and this week he defeated 2nd seed Jeevan comfortably but Prajnesh gave more solid performance ... Vijayant also kept his upper-hand over Balaji with another win though this time both sets went to tie-breaks ... So final is between Vijayant and Prajnesh.

In the doubles Balaji and Jeevan lifted the title.

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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt Jacob GRILLS (AUS,1086) 61 64

[F] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs (Q) Andrew HARRIS (AUS,1598)

Saketh scored another comfortable win over his Aussie opponent in the semis ... In the final he is facing Aussie qualifier Harris, who scored upset win over top-seed Udomchoke in the quarter-final.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[QF] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) l Yi YANG (CHN,1023) 16 46

Sharmada failed to continue with her good run and lost against her Chinese opponent..

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