Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Tennis News -
At $15K Syria F1 Futures, Damascus

[R1] VM Ranjeet (IND,995) bt (WC) MAAROUF Hayan (SYR,1513) 64 61
[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND,842) l (Q) JANCI Tomas (SVK.1417) 61 36 16
[R1] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,848) l ONOZAWA Arata (JPN,929) 61 67(5) 26

[R2] VM Ranjeet (IND,995) vs (4) SOMOGYI Alexander (SVK,555)

Doubles -
[R1] PC Vignesh (IND)/ VM Ranjeet (IND) l MUHAMMAD Ahmad Rabeea (KUW)/ SALIM Majd (SYR) 46 26

So our top 2 higher ranked players in this futures lost in the first round .. But still 3 Indians r in second round of singles.
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At $15K Turkey F8 Futures, Istanbul

[R1] VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,1002) bt (7) SANON Valentin (CIV,562) 36 75 76(4)

[R2] VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,1002) vs GROZDANOV Tihomir (BUL,738)

Superb upset win by Vishnu over top-600 player ... Such comeback tight sets victory will give huge boost to his confidence to perform better ... Go Vishnu.
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At $50K Allentown Womens Challenger, PA, USA

[Q3] UBEROI Shikha (IND,852) l MCHALE Christina (USA,603) 46 36
[Q3] (4) UBEROI Neha (USA,418) l (8) PROUSIS Alexis (USA,473) 61 26 16

[R1] (LL) UBEROI Neha (USA,418) vs CHANG Kai-Chen (TPE,283)

Doubles -
[R1] UBEROI Shikha (IND)/ DEKMEIJERE Liga (LAT) l DIESKOVA Dominika (SVK)/ DUARTE Ana-Clara (BRA) 76(7) 36 (3)10
[R1] UBEROI Neha (USA)/ DABROWSKI Gabriela (CAN) bt KRIVENCHEVA Svetlana (BUL)/ LEE Ye-Ra (KOR) 63 63

Uberoi sis lost in the final qualifying but Neha made it as lucky loser in singles maindraw ... Neha also started well in doubles but Shikha's challnge got over.
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At $15K Great Britain F9 Futures, Felixstowe

[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND,742) vs (1) GOODALL Joshua (GBR,261)
[R1] MANKAD Harsh (IND,567) vs (6) COLL-RIUDAVETS Ignacio (ESP,470)
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND,884) vs MARTIN-ADALIA Pablo (ESP,609)
[R1] SINGH Ashutosh (IND,525) vs (2) CHEKHOV Pavel (RUS,275)

Doubles -
[R1] (3) MANKAD Harsh (IND)/ SINGH Ashutosh (IND) vs COX Daniel (GBR)/ MILTON Joshua (GBR)
[R1] RAJA Purav (IND)/ SHARAN Divij (IND) vs BIDMEADE David (AUS)/ KELLY Dayne (AUS)

Our all players having tough first round against higher rank opponents.

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