Friday, April 08, 2016

Tennis News

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

Semi Final
(5) India l (3) China 1-2
[S2] SIDDHANT BANTHIA (IND) l TAO MU (CHN) 26 16
[S1] ADIL KALYANPUR (IND) bt LING XI ZHAO (CHN) 61 63
[D] ADIL KALYANPUR (IND)/ MEGH PATEL (IND) l YE CONG MO (CHN)/ LING XI ZHAO (CHN) 36 75 8-10

In the semis our boys lose close match against Chinese boys ... After Siddhant's one-sided loss Adil scored dominating win against Chinese #1 and top-75 ITF junior ranked Zhao ... In the doubles Adil-Megh tried comeback after losing the first set ... After winning the second set they failed to keep momentum in match tie-break ... Now our boys need to win 3rd place match against Australia for qualifying for World group.

At $50K Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,294) l (Q) Yuya Kibi (JPN,663) 36 63 67(8)

Sanam's terrible start of year continues as he lose first round match in Kyoto challenger against below 650 ranked Japanese in tight third set tie-break.

At $25K China F4 Futures, Zhangjiagang

[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,753) l (1) Duck Hee LEE (KOR,214) 16 06
[R2] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,543) bt Kuan-Yi LEE (TPE,836) 63 63
[R2] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,583) bt Xi QI (CHN,1250) 64 63

[QF] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,543) vs (3) Jimmy WANG (TPE,377)
[QF] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,583) vs (4) Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,388)

Doubles
[F] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) l (1) Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE) 67(4) 36

VSP and Bala score comfortable wins in the second round ... Now their real test in the quarters against top-400 players ... In the doubles Bala-Shuichi lose the final against top-seed Taipei pair.

At $15K Uzbekistan F1 futures, Karshi

[R1] Ti CHEN (TPE)/ Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Denis MATSUKEVITCH (RUS)/ Valery RUDNEV (RUS) 16 63 10-2
[QF] Ti CHEN (TPE)/ Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt (3) Luca MARGAROLI (SUI)/ Ilija VUCIC (SRB) 76(6) 75
[SF] Ti CHEN (TPE) / Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Temur ISMAILOV (UZB) / Shonigmatjon SHOFAYZIYEV (UZB) 61 63

Doubles Final
Ti CHEN (TPE)/ Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt (4) Sanjar FAYZIEV (UZB)/ Jurabek KARIMOV (UZB) 5-5 retd.

Good outing for Sumit in the doubles as he lifts doubles title with Ti Chen ... Good match practice for Sumit after his comeback due to injury break.

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