Thursday, May 11, 2006

$10K ITF women Delhi
Singles 2nd Round

(Q)Asha Nandakumar d. (1)Rushmi Chakravarthi 64 64
(7)Archana Venkataraman d. (Q)Gangothri Sandri 64 63
(4)Yi-Jing Zhao d. (Q)Shalini Sahoo 62 61
(8)Geeta Manohar d. (Q)Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 62 62
(6)Sonal Phadke d. Karishma Patel 62 60
(3)Parul Goswami d. (wc)Vishakha Sheoran 60 46 61
(5)Sandhya Nagaraj d. Elizaveta Zaytseva 62 61
(2)Shan-Shan Song d. Oormila Ram 62 63

Asha Nandakumar produced terrific result beating Rushmi in straight sets ... Feeling happy for Asha, but also feeling sad for Rushmi, who was so dominating on Indian circuit for years is now fading away.

Doubles quarterfinals -
Song Shan-Shan (CHN)/Zhao Yi-Jing (Chn) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi (IND)/ Parija Maloo (IND) 62 60
Tegan Edwards (RSA) and Sonal Phadke (IND) bt Vandana Murali (IND)/ Madura Ranganathan (IND) 63 75
Paarul Goswami (IND)/ Geeta Manohar (IND) bt Asha Nandakumar (IND)/ Varsha Shivshankar (IND) 63 62
Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Archana Venkataraman (IND) bt Sagarika Phadke (IND)/ Chirashanthi Rajur (IND) 64 61
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In the Indonesian satellite leg 1 singles -

[R1] (7)Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 67 64 62
[R1] Gurmehar Singh (IND) l Toshiharu Kato (JPN) 62 61

So in the next round
[R2] (7) Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs Toshiharu Kato (JPN)

In the doubles draw -
[R1] (1) Ashutosh Singh (IND) / Norikazu Sugiyama (JPN) bt Thomas Greenland (GBR) / Gurmehar Singh (IND) 62 26 64

So in the next round
[QF] (1) Ashutosh Singh (IND) / Norikazu Sugiyama (JPN) vs John Patrick Tierro (PHI) / Hie Tung Yu (HKG)
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At the $10K Greece F2 in Syros

Singles -
[R2] Navdeep Singh (IND,721) bt (WC) Dimitris Loucarias ( Gre, unr) 64 52 (rtd)

Doubles - [QF] (3) Navdeep Singh (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) bt Grassi/ Hasin 63 63

[QF] Navdeep Singh (IND,721) vs James Cerretani (USA,846)

This match is tougher than ranking suggest ... As James is Navdeep's doubles and hitting partner.

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