Wednesday, January 09, 2019

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At $77.8K Men's CCI International 2019, Mumbai, India (PSA World Tour Silver)

[R1] Ramit Tandon (IND,68) bt (9/16) Joshua Masters (ENG,52) 11-9, 11-6, 11-8 (36m)
[R1] (3) Saurav Ghosal (IND,12) bye
[R1] Harinder Pal Sandhu (IND,75) l (9/16) Ben Coleman (ENG,49) 1-6 retd.
[R1] (WC) Aditya Jagtap (IND,120) l (9/16) Karim El Hammamy (EGY,51) 11-8, 12-10, 7-11, 11-13, 8-11 (84m)
[R1] (9/16) Vikram Malhotra (IND,58) bt Mazen Gamal (EGY,62) 9-11, 11-9, 11-4, 11-7 (45m)
[R1] (9/16) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,66) bt Baptiste Masotti (FRA,71) 9-11, 6-11, 11-3, 11-4, 11-8 (55m)

[R2] Ramit Tandon (IND,68) vs (8) Tom Richards (ENG,20)
[R2] (3) Saurav Ghosal (IND,12) vs (9/16) Mohamed Reda (EGY,54)
[R2] (9/16) Vikram Malhotra (IND,58) vs (5) James Willstrop (ENG,16)
[R2] (9/16) Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND,66) vs (2) Marwan Elshorbagy (EGY,8)

The season's first tournament begins at Mumbai ... Ramit started with an upset win over the top-50 type Britisher, Joshua Masters, in straight games ... Next, he is facing another Britisher the #20 ranked Tom Richards ... Vikram also scored a 4 games win over similar ranked Egyptian Gamal ... He is facing the former WR #1 James Willstrop ... Mahesh needed to dig deep after losing the first 2 games ... He made a strong comeback for winning next 3 games ... He is also having a tough second round against the top-10 Marwan Elshorbagy ... Saurav received a bye in the first round and meeting Mohamed Reda in the next.

Aditya missed an upset win as he won the first 2 games and had match balls in the fourth before losing to the WR #51 Karim El Hammamy ... Harry retired in the first game against his British opponent.

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