Sunday, April 10, 2016

Tennis News

At Asia-Oceania Junior Davis Cup u-16, New Delhi, India

For 3rd Place
(5) India bt (4) Australia 2-0
[S2] SIDDHANT BANTHIA (IND) bt THOMAS JAMES BOSANCIC (AUS) 62 64
[S1] ADIL KALYANPUR (IND) bt ALEXANDER CRNOKRAK (AUS) 62 64

Terrific result by our boys beating higher ranked Aussie team for qualifying to the junior Davis cup world group played in Budapest, Hungary in September.

Our Siddhant and Adil scored dominating win in these matches and they lost to only Japan and China, other qualifiers, in close matches.


At € 4.09M Monte Carlo Masters, Monte Carlo, Monaco

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bye

Rohan-Florin r 6th seed and receive bye ... Hoping for better outing for them in clay season after poor hard court season.

At $25K China F4 Futures, Zhangjiagang

[QF] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,543) l (3) Jimmy WANG (TPE,377) 26 67(3)
[QF] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,583) bt (4) Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,388) 36 63 75

[SF] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,583) l (1) Duck Hee LEE (KOR,214) 26 26

Bala scored upset win in the quarters against Sekiguchi but fail to keep same level in the semis ... He lose convincingly against Duck Hee Lee.

At $50K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

[Q1] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND,279) bt Polina MONOVA (RUS,674) 62 61
[Q2] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND,279) bt Anna ZAJA (GER,402) 64 63

[Q3] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND,279) vs Freya CHRISTIE (GBR,379)

As expected Ankita is in the final qualifying with two straight sets wins.

At $50K+H Barletta Challenger, Italy

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND,233) vs (PR) Julian Reister (GER,597)

Tricky match for RamK against former top-100 Julian.

At $25K China F5 Futures, Taizhou

[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,753) vs Qualifier
[R1] (7) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,543) vs Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,810)
[R1] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,583) vs (WC) Su Hao ZHONG (CHN,2147)

Draw is out for next week's Chinese futures.

At $25K Uzbekistan F2 futures, Bukhara

[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,418) vs Duje Kekez (CRO,513)

Sumit needs to play as much matches to bring back his match fitness and hopefully his last week's doubles title help him to perform better in the singles.

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