Monday, February 24, 2014

Tennis News

At $2.36M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (Q) Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)/ Victor Hanescu (ROU) 61 57 10-8

Rohan-Aisam faced singles specialist in the first round and surprisingly had tough match ... Aisam-Rohan won the first set comfortably but Davydenko-Hanescu won closely fought the second set and take match in decider ... The match tie-break was also well fought and in that Rohan-Aisam prevailed.
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At $10K India F1 Futures , Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(1) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 63 64
Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 46 63 64
(Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 64 67(3) 64
(7) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 63 60
(3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Sho KATAYAMA (JPN) 76(4) 63
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 61 62
Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt (WC) Vikrant DAHIYA (IND) 76(2) 63
(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l (Q) Ko SUZUKI (JPN) 61 16 46
(5) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 76(5) 62
(Q) Kunal ANAND (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 61 61
(Q) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (WC) Anvit BENDRE (IND) 61 61
(4) Antal VAN DER DUIM (NED) bt (Q) Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND) 61 61
(6) Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) bt (Q) Shotaro GOTO (JPN) 76(6) 61
(Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) bt (WC) Ranjeet SINGH (IND) 61 60
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Bumpei SATO (JPN) 75 76(4)
(2) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) 62 75

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 62 2-2 Retd.
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 63 64
(3) Sho KATAYAMA (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Lucas RENARD (SWE) 62 64
Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Shotaro GOTO (JPN)/ Ko SUZUKI (JPN) 76(2) 64
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 60 64
(4) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Gabriel TRUJILLO-SOLER (ESP) bt Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 63 63
Garvit BATRA (IND)/ Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 46 64 10-6
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Saurabh PATIL (IND) 61 60

Good chance for Indians players to raise their rankings in this 5 weeks of Indian futures series ... After end of Indian challengers series Somdev climbs to #78 and Yuki is on #146 in the singles ... In the doubles back to back doubles titles helped Saketh and Sanam but good performance by our other players helped them to rise career high rankings ... Saketh is in his career high doubles ranking, #178 and Sanam is also on his career high doubles ranking #219 ... Yuki also join them on his career high doubles ranking, #139 ... Balaji is on his career best doubles ranking, #200 ... Purav is also on his career best doubles ranking #72.

Good upset wins by young Ronit against Ashwin ... Garvit also join him in second round but Ranjeet lost his match against Japanese qualifier.

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At $10K Thailand F3 Futures, Nonthaburi

[R1] (6) Karunuday Singh (IND,483) l Takashi Saito (JPN,754) 36 67(5)

Doubles
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Peng GAO (CHN) l Takashi SAITO (JPN)/ Masato SHIGA (JPN) 46 16

KU is playing in Thai futures with his ongoing training but bad start as he lost in the first round of singles and doubles against lowly ranked Japanese opponent Takashi Saito.

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