Tennis News

At $125K Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA)/ Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) 57 63 10-3

[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Farrukh Dustov (UZB)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN)

Need solid performance for Divij-Purav before season end ... Stuttering start for our 2nd seed pair at Tashkent Challenger ... They lost the first set against Italian pair and after that they fought back winning the second set and match tie-break ... Next they r facing wild-card pair.
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At $15K USA F26 Futures, Houston, Texas

[R1] (Q) Srikar Alla (IND,1776) vs (1) Edward Corrie (GBR,344)
[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,359) vs (Q) Max Wennakoski (FIN,1502)
[R1] (5) Vijayant Malik (IND,485) l Kevin King (USA,606) 63 36 26

Doubles
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (WC) Sam Edwards (USA)/ Grant Solomon (USA) 62 62

[QF] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Tyler Hochwalt (USA)/ Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL)

Hoped for good performance from Vijayant but he lost after winning the first set ... In the doubles he with Sanam started with dominating win over wild-card pair.
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At $10K Kazakhstan F6 Futures, Shymkent

[R1] (1) Karunuday Singh (684) bt (WC) Kuatbek Abiyev (KAZ,2043) 60 61

[R2] (1) Karunuday Singh (684) vs Anton Galkin (RUS,989)

Comfortable winning start for Karunuday.
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At $10K Greece F14 Futures , Marathon - Athens

[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,535) bt Loic Perret (SUI,1236) 67(4) 62 76(1)

Surprisingly tough fight from Swiss opponent for Prajnesh but still he kept his focus and won the third set in tie-break.
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At $10K Great Britain F20 Futures, Sunderland

[R1] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,801) bt (Q) David PORTER (GBR,2101) 46 76(2) 76(3)

[R2] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,801) vs (Q) Chris ANGUELOV (BUL,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ David PEL (NED) bye

[QF] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ David PEL (NED) vs (1) George COUPLAND (GBR)/ Marcus DANIELL (NZL)

This week Vijay Sunder is playing in British futures and had dogfight in the first round ... After losing the first set Vijay Sundar needed to dig deep for winning next two sets in tie-breaks ... Next he is facing another qualifier.
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At $10K Spain F34 Futures, Sant Cugat

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,686) l Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP,687) 46 06

Doubles
[R1] (4) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Jaume Pla Malfeito (ESP)/ Jean-Marc Werner (GER) 76(4) 63

[QF] (4) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Lucas McCone (BEL) / Thomas McCone (BEL)

Disappointed loss against similar ranked opponent for Ramkumar in the singles.
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At $10K Germany F18 Futures, Leimen

[R2] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,451) vs Oscar Otte (GER,720)

Doubles
[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Torsten WIETOSKA (GER) bye

Bala is playing in German futures.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R1] (Q) Shivani MANCHANDA (IND) l (Q) Aleksandra TRESKUNOVA (RUS) 16 06
[R1] Anjana KOMPALLY (IND) l (8) Karina VENDITTI (BRA) 16 16
[R1] Sneha PADAMATA (IND) vs (Q) Reem FAYED (EGY)
[R1] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND) bye

Interesting to see how Natasha perform in these weak tournaments.