Thursday, September 12, 2013

Tennis News

At $15K Canada F8 Futures, Toronto

[R2] (4) Vijayant Malik (IND,450) bt Sekou Bangoura (USA,677) 63 64
[R2] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,379) bt Evan King (USA,952) 64 76(0)

[QF] (4) Vijayant Malik (IND,450) vs (8) Fritz Wolmarans (RSA,483)
[QF] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,379) vs Brayden Schnur (CAN,589)

Doubles
[QF] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Eric Quigley (USA) 61 36 11-9

[SF] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (3) Jason Jung (USA)/ Evan King (USA)

Though Sanam scored straight sets win still American Evan King stretched him in both sets ... Next he is facing talented Canadian 18 yrs old Brayden Schnur ... Vijayant scored straight sets win over Bangoura ... Next he is facing Similar ranked South African.

Sanam-Vijayant needed match tie-break for their win in the doubles ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed American pair.

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At $10K Egypt F24 Futures , Sharm El Sheikh

[R2] Arjun Kadhe (IND,1279) l (8) Cristian Rodriguez (COL,661) 57 46
[R2] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,471) bt Rafal Teurer (POR,UNR) w/o

[QF] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,471) vs Mazen OSAMA (EGY,629)

Doubles
[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Skander MANSOURI (TUN)/ Marlon OLIVEIRA (BRA) 63 62
[QF] Pol TOLEDO BAGUE (ESP)/ Arjun KADHE (IND) bt Mohamed ADNAOUI (MAR)/ Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 62 62

[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Marc ABDELNOUR (SYR)/ Issam Haitham TAWEEL (SYR)
[SF] Pol TOLEDO BAGUE (ESP)/ Arjun KADHE (IND) vs Karim HOSSAM (EGY)/ Karim-Mohamed MAAMOUN (EGY)

Bala received walkover in the second round ... Next he is facing Egyptian teenager ... Arjun gave decent performance in his second round match against clay court specialist but in the doubles he is in the semis with Ranjeet-Bala.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Tlemcen, Algeria

[R2] (1) Shweta RANA (IND) bt Harmony TAN (FRA) 36 64 76(5)
[R2] Nikita DESHMUKH (IND) l (7) Natasha BREDL (AUT) 06 06
[R2] Victoria CHEHAL (IND) l (2) Josephine BOUALEM (FRA) 26 26

[QF] (1) Shweta RANA (IND) vs (7) Natasha BREDL (AUT)

Top-seed Shweta needed to dig deep to fightback against French girl after losing the first set ... Next she is facing Austrian Natasha Bredl, who gave double bagel to Nikita Deshmukh in the previous round.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R2] Vishesh VISHNU (IND) l (1) Yana SIZIKOVA (RUS) 06 06
[R2] (2) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Ashmitha EASWARAMURTHI (IND) 63 62

[QF] (2) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) vs (7) Francesca STEPHENSON (GBR)

Prarthana scored straight sets win over Ashmitha but double bagel loss for Vishesh ... Real test start for Prarthana from quarters, she is facing 7th seed British player.

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