Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Tennis News

At At $727K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ad.il Shamasdin (CAN) vs (2) Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)

Tough opener for Divij-Adil against 2nd seed Gonzalez-Lipsky
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At $125K+H Kaohsiung Challenger, Taiwan

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,313) l (8) Denys Molchanov (UKR,213) 46 76(6) 67(3)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Ryan Agar (AUS)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN)

Jeevan produce another encouraging performance against Ukrainian Denys Molchanov , who is 100 places above him, but he need to convert these performances in a win ... After losing the first set Jeevan saved match points before winning the second set in extra points tie-break ... The third set also went to tie-break but this time Jeevan failed to reproduce his second set tie-break performance.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Phuket, Thailand

[R1] Prarthana Thombare (IND,352) l (Q) Pei-Chi Lee (TPE,443) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] Prarthana Thombare (IND)/ Su Jeong Jang (KOR) l Na-Lae Han (KOR)/ Mi Yoo (KOR) 16 57

Another disappointing loss for Prarthana in the singles against qualifier, so missed opportunity.
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At $10K Spain F18 Futures, Gandia

[R1] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,356) vs Samuel Ribeiro Navarrete (ESP,987)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (WC) Faustino Arrogante-De Lanuza (ESP)/ Diego-Jose Manrique-Velazquez (ESP) 61 61

Interesting to see RamK's performance in the singles after his last week's double crown.

In the doubles he is top-seed with his Mexican partner and they started with a bang beating local wild-card pair losing only two games.

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At $10K Germany F8 Futures, Trier

[Q1] (5) Kunal Anand (IND) bt Marvin Werr (GER) 60 16 63
[Q1] (6) Neeraj Elangovan (IND) bt Pavle Daljev (SRB) 76(4) 75

[Q2] (5) Kunal Anand (IND) bt Jacques Negro (GER) 62 75
[Q2] (6) Neeraj Elangovan (IND) bt Tom Roidl (GER) 61 61

[Q3] (5) Kunal Anand (IND) l Lucas Gerch (GER) 26 36
[Q3] (6) Neeraj Elangovan (IND) bt Mike Vermeer(LEX) 61 62

[R1] (LL) Kunal Anand (IND,1674) l (7) Ivan Endara (ECU,586) 64 36 46
[R1] (Q) Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1681) l Sami Reinwein (GER,1281) 36 26

Kunal and Neeraj fail to cross first round hurdle and lose their respective matches.
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At $10K Hong Kong F2 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1158) bt Singekrawee Wattanakul (THA,1106) 46 62 61
[R1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,1264) bt (WC) Siu-Fai Kelvin Lam (HKG,UNR) 57 63 63
[R1] Jatin Dahiya (IND,1732) l Hyun-Woo Nam (KOR,1270) 36 26

[R2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1158) vs (2) Dayne Kelly (AUS,614)
[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,1264) vs (8) Masato Shinga (JPN,778)

Sasi and Sidharth win their respective matches after losing the first set but in the second round both r facing seeded players.

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