Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Tennis News
At $50K Nottingham Challenger, Great Britain (on grass)

[Q3] Rohan Bopanna (IND,284) bt Raven Klaasen (RSA,346) 63 64

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,135) vs (Q) Samuel Groth (AUS,238)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA,168) vs Karol Beck (SVK,147)
[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,284) vs Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,202)

So as expected easy victory for Rohan ... He is facing Russian in the first round ... Som having tricky match against Australian qualifier ... Today Prakash and Rajeev having their singles matches and Rohan will be in doubles action.
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At $50K Yuba City Challenger, California, USA

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kaes Van't Hof (USA) vs Eric Nunez (USA)/ Michael Ryderstedt (SWE)
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At $10K New Dehli II, India

Singles First Round
(1) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Sagarika PHADKE (IND) 63 60
Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND) bt (WC) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 62 63
Stephanie THEILER (SUI) bt (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) 63 63
(6) Parija MALOO (IND) bt Satjaporn MAHAJAROENKUL (THA) 63 36 75
(Q) Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) bt (3) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) 76(6) 62
Shivika BURMAN (IND) bt (Q) Nupur KAUL (IND) 63 64
(Q) Sonya DAYAL (IND) bt (WC) Tavni SHAH (IND) 62 46 64
(8) Ying-Ying DUAN (CHN) bt (Q) Moe KAWATOKO (JPN) 75 63
Seo-Kyung KANG (KOR) bt (7) Parul GOSWAMI (IND) 62 63
Chun-Yan HE (CHN) bt (WC) Adnya NAIK (IND) 60 60
(WC) Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) bt Marisa GIANOTTI (AUS) 62 62
(4) Yoon-Young JEONG (KOR) bt (Q) Kristina PEJKOVIC (AUS) 62 62
Ting LI (CHN) bt (5) Thuy-Dung NGUYEN (VIE) 63 63
(Q) Natascha BREDL (AUT) bt Kumari Sweta SOLANKI (IND) 63 75
Yi ZHONG (CHN) bt Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) 76(4) 63
(2) Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) bt Renee BINNIE (AUS) 63 61

Doubles First Round
(1) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND)/ Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt Chutharat RUNGTEIN (THA)/ Anushree THAMMANNA (IND) 62 61
Moe KAWATOKO (JPN)/ Kumari Sweta SOLANKI (IND) bt (WC) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND)/ Tanvi SHAH (IND) 64 61
(3) Xi BAI (CHN)/ Ting LI (CHN) bt (WC) Rishika SUNKARA (IND)/ Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) 64 36 10(4)
Renee BINNIE (AUS)/ Chun-Yan HE (CHN) bt Treta BHATTACHARYYA (IND)/ Shivika BURMAN (IND) 63 64
Soon-Mi SEO (KOR)/ Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) bt (WC) Sagarika PHADKE (IND)/ Sonal PHADKE (IND) 63 64
(4) Yoon-Young JEONG (KOR)/ Seo-Kyung KANG (KOR) bt Parul GOSWAMI (IND)/ Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) 64 16 10(5)
Yue YUAN (CHN)/ Ying-Ying DUANN (CHN) bt Stephanie THEILER (SUI)/ Deepna VAZIRANI (IND) 62 75
Yue-Yue HU (CHN)/ Yi ZHONG (CHN) bt (2) Parija MALOO (IND)/ Lisa MARSHALL (RSA) 75 60

Sanaa's undoing was her lack of match practice ... Other hand young wildcard Rashmi Teltumbde scored good upset win over Australian.
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At $10K Egypt F8, Ain Elskhona-Suiz (clay)

[Q1] (2) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bye
[Q2] (2) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Young-Jae KIM (KOR) 36 63 76(6)

[R1] (Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1464) bt (6) Carlos REXACH-ITOIZ (ESP,703) 63 retd.

[R2] (Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1464) vs Massimo CAPONE (ITA,1002)

Good to see Ronak playing on clay and grab atleast 1 ranking point in 2 weeks.
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At $ 10K Egypt F7, Alexanderia (clay)

[Q1] (3) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bye
[Q2] (3) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Magdi ELBOSATY (EGY,UNR) 60 60

[R1] (Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1464) l (3) Jose STATHAM (NZL,450) 06 16

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