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At $15K India F9 Futures, Kolkata (clay)

Singles First Round
(1) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 60 60
Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (Q) Rahil MAKHARIA (IND) 60 63
Rupesh ROY (IND) bt Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) 64 64
Purav RAJA (IND) bt (5) Marc-Andre STRATLING (GER) 75 64
(Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (4) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) 76(1) 60
Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (WC) Aditya MADKEKAR (IND) 60 62
(WC) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (WC) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 62 67(4) 63
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (7) Syrym ABDUKHALIKOV (KAZ) 63 64
(6) Daniel LUSTIG (CZE) bt Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 61 64
(Q) Mario ECKARDT (GER) bt (Q) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 46 63 76(2)
(WC) Rohan GIDE (IND) bt (Q) Jakhongir KHAYDAROV (UZB) 63 64
(3) David SAVIC (SRB) bt Pirmin HAENLE (GER) 62 64
(Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt (8) Vaja UZAKOV (UZB) 75 63
(Q) Rifat BIKTYAKOV (UZB) bt (Q) Igor PANIN (RUS) 75 61
Navdeep SINGH (IND) bt Tushar LIBERHAN (IND) 64 63
(2) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt I-Ta CHEN (TPE) 75 62

Doubles First Round
(1) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Purav RAJA (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 60 63
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Kamala KANNAN (IND)/ Vishal PUNNA (IND) 63 60
(4) Rupesh ROY (IND)/ Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) bt Mario ECKARDT (GER)/ Pirmin HAENLE (GER) 67(2) 62 10(6)
I-Ta CHEN (TPE)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt Krishik DIVAKAR (IND)/ Nikunj SIWACH (IND) 60 61
Rifat BIKTYAKOV (UZB)/ Vaja UZAKOV (UZB) bt (ALT) Suresh KRISHNA (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 64 62
(3) Alexander SATSCHKO (GER)/ Marc-Andre STRATLING (GER) bt (WC) Aditya MADKEKAR (IND)/ Mithun MURALI (IND) 64 62
(WC) Vijay KANNAN (IND)/ Saurav PANJA (IND) bt Rohan GIDE (IND)/ Vikram B REDDY (IND) 16 63 11(9)
(2) David SAVIC (SRB)/ Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt Tushar LIBERHAN (IND)/ Navdeep SINGH (IND) 63 62

Very good results for Indians ... With creditable few upsets win 10 players r in second round.

But something terribly wrong with Sunil's game .. He is losing to anybody and on any surface ... This time he lost on clay courts ... In break he needs to work on his basic and mental aspects of game ... Hopefully in 2009 we will see his comeback in company of Karan Rastogi, who will be ready in January to join tour again.