Monday, September 01, 2008

Tennis News -
At $15K India F6, Chennai

Singles First Round -
(1) Peter GOJOWCZYK (GER,346) bt Tushar LIBERHAN (IND,1066) 62 61
Divij SHARAN (IND,804) bt (Q) Ankit SACHDEVA (IND,UNR) 62 63
Vinod SRIDHAR (IND,1627) bt (Q) Vikas CHAUHAN (IND,UNR) 62 62
Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,942) bt (5) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,502) 46 64 63
(3) Yuichi SUGITA (JPN,467) bt (Q) Whit LIVINGSTON (USA,1717) 63 62
(WC) Karunuday SINGH (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND,UNR) 63 61
Rupesh ROY (IND,1102) bt (WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND,UNR) 63 61
(8) Hsin-Han LEE (TPE,727) bt Vaja UZAKOV (UZB,825) 62 63
(Q) I-Ta CHEN (TPE,UNR) bt (LL) Chandril SOOD (IND,UNR) 63 62
(Q) Mithun MURALI (IND,UNR) bt Yasir KHAN (PAK,1551) 75 60
Aqeel KHAN (PAK,741) bt (LL) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,UNR) 75 62
(4) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,499) bt (WC) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,UNR) 67(5) 64 75
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND,1813) bt (7) Ashutosh SINGH (IND,648) 67(2) 63 3-1 Retd
Rohan GAJJAR (IND,822) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND,1477) 75 62
Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,922) bt (Q) Shivang MISHRA (IND,1551) 62 62
(2) Alexey KEDRYUK (KAZ,454) bt (WC) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,1295) 63 64

Doubles First Round -
(1) Vinod SRIDHAR (IND)/ Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) bt Kamala KANNAN (IND)/ Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) 63 76(4)
I-Ta CHEN (TPE)/ Hsin-Han LEE (TPE) bt Whit LIVINGSTON (USA)/ Yannick NELORD (IND) 76(2) 62

(4) Peter GOJOWCZYK (GER)/ Yuichi SUGITA (JPN) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 64 64
(WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt (WC) Irfan HUSSAIN (IND)/ Yasir KHAN (PAK) 61 63

N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 76(2) 63
Aqeel KHAN (PAK)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (3) Tushar LIBERHAN (IND)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 63 67(5) 10(6)

Divij SHARAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND)/ Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 63 64
(2) Alexey KEDRYUK (KAZ)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (WC) Mithun MURALI (IND)/ Karunuday SINGH (IND) 62 62

Good upset win by Murli in singles and in doubles pair of Jeevan & Aqeel scored upset win over 3rd seed.

But 2 players on whom we were banking to perform above expectations, Sunil and Ashutosh, lost in the first round.

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