Thursday, April 07, 2016

Tennis News

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

Quarter Final
(5) India bt (2) Korea 2-1
[S2] SIDDHANT BANTHIA (IND) bt JINSEOK YU (KOR) 63 64
[S1] ADIL KALYANPUR (IND) l YEONGSEOK JEONG (KOR) 26 26
[D] ADIL KALYANPUR (IND)/ MEGH PATEL (IND) bt SEONYONG HAN (KOR)/ YEONGSEOK JEONG (KOR) 36 63 14-12

Excellent win by our boys against 2nd seed Korean boys ... Siddhant started with straight sets win but today Adil was off-color and lost his match cheaply ... But he came back in the doubles with Megh and they scored hard fought comeback win in extra points of match tie-break ... In the semis they r facing Chinese boys.

At € 520K Grand Prix Hassan II, Marrakech, Morocco

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) l Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 67(5) 67(5)

Rohan-Denis lose in two tie-breaks against Aisam-Marin ... Our pair had 11 break points in the match which they failed to convert.

At $25K China F4 Futures, Zhangjiagang

[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,697) bt Xin GAO (CHN,724) 06 64 63
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,805) l (WC) Zihao XIA (CHN,UNR) 36 36
[R1] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,526) bt (Q) Hao WU (CHN,1881) 26 62 76(1)
[R1] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,443) bt Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE,1133) 64 60

[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,753) vs (1) Duck Hee LEE (KOR,214)
[R2] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,543) vs Kuan-Yi LEE (TPE,836)
[R2] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,583) vs Xi QI (CHN,1250)

Doubles
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l Xi QI (CHN)/ Weiqiang ZHENG (CHN) 62 16 2-10
[R1] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) bt Jie CUI (CHN)/ Rigele TE (CHN) 64 63
[R1] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) bt Jeson PATROMBON (PHI)/ Aoran WANG (CHN) 67(3) 62 10-8

[QF] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) bt Bowen OUYANG (CHN)/ Chuhan WANG (CHN) 63 26 10-8
[QF] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) bt (4) Matteo VIOLA (ITA)/ Jimmy WANG (TPE) 16 62 10-5

[SF] (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) l (1) Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE) 67(2) 46
[SF] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) bt (2) Xin GAO (CHN)/ Kaichi UCHIDA (JPN) 76(4) 62

[F] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) vs (1) Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE)

Only surprising loss of Vinayak against un-ranked local player, otherwise expected wins for our players ... In the doubles Bala is in the final with his Japanese partner after scoring couple of upset wins ... VSP lose in the doubles semis against top-seed Taipei pair.

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