Thursday, May 30, 2013

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

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

Junior French open qualifying draw is out ... Sumit is facing 16th seed Danish player in the first round and other seeded player in their draw is 8th seed/#59 ranked Tunisian Skander Mansouri.

13th seed Snehadevi is facing talented 15 yrs old Aussie player Naiktha Bains and 5th seed/#59th ranked Russian Alina Silich is another seeded from her draw ... Tough match for Simran against Italian girl.

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At $10K India F6 Futures, Chennai

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (6) Bumpei SATO (JPN) 16 63 63
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) 60 63
Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (4) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN) 75 76(3)
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 63 63

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 62 76(3)
(3) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt (2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 67(4) 62 10-7

All Indian semi-finals at Chennai ... Expected Karunuday's win over Jeevan but good upset win by Prajnesh over experienced and top-600 Matsui ... Vijayant proved too strong to Garvit and good recovered win by Balaji after losing the first set against Sato.
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At $10K Thailand F2 Futures, Bangkok

[QF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) bt (6) Yuichi ITO (JPN,638) 61 64

[SF] (3) Saketh MYNENI (IND,300) vs Jacob GRILLS (AUS,1086)

With another comfortable win Saketh is in the semis ... In the semis he is facing Aussie 17 yrs old Jacob Grills, who upset 2nd seed Adam Feeney in the second round and 5th seed Niki in the quarters.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[R2] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) bt (2) Alyona SOTNIKOVA (UKR,363) 16 64 62

[QF] Sharmada BALU (IND,UNR) vs Yi YANG (CHN,1023)

Sharmada scored superb upset comeback win over top-400 Ukrainian ... That's also on foreign soil.

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