Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

Boys Singles
[R2] Sudanwa Sitaram (IND,93) l (3) (WC) Bernard Tomic (AUS,157) 26 26

Very dominating win by Bernard Tomic in 42 minutes ... This type performance from Tomic was expected as his experience of playing regularly on mens curcuit and as I already mentioned that here also he reached final qualifying round in mens section at age of 17 yrs.
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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Scoville Jenkins (USA) vs (3) Todd Widom (USA)/ Michael Yani (USA)

Harsh is back on tour after 3 weeks break and having tough first round match against 3rd seed pair with another new partner.
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At $50K Boston ITF Womens Tournament, MA, USA

[Q1] Shikha Uberoi (IND,487) bt Maureen Diaz (USA,677) 75 64
[Q2] Shikha Uberoi (IND,487) l (4) Katie Ruckert (USA,382) 16 16

Doubles
[R1] Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Audra Cohen (USA) vs Brittany Augustine (USA)/ Jennifer Elie (USA)
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At $15K India F5 Futures, New Delhi

First Singles Round
(1) TAKEUCHI Kento (JPN) bt PRASHANTH Vijay Sunder (IND) 36 64 61
(WC) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND) bt MALIK Vijayant (IND) 36 64 75
REDDY B Vikram (IND) bt UZAKOV Vaja (UZB) 63 76(7)
(6) GAJJAR Rohan (IND) bt (Q) SELVARAJ Ajai (IND) 61 61
(3) NAM Hyun-Woo (KOR) bt (Q) DESAI Bhishma (IND) 61 61
SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt SINGH Navdeep (IND) 75 63
PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR Vignesh (IND) bt (WC) NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND) 46 63 61
(7) VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjit (IND) bt (PR) MADKEKAR Aditya (IND) 62 63
(5) SHARAN Divij (IND) bt (Q) EROS Tal (ISR) 63 75
RAJA Purav (IND) bt (Q) KANNA, Kamala (IND) 62 62
(Q) VIJAYRAGAVAN Ashwin (IND) bt (Q) MURALI Mithun (IND) 64 63
(4) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND) bt KUMAR Ashwin (USA) 62 60
(8) ROY Rupesh (IND) bt (Q) KHAN Shahbaaz (IND) 62 63
(WC) MANUJA Ronak (IND) bt (WC) TIWARI Abhijeet (IND) 75 76(3)
(Q) KANNAN Vijay (IND) bt GIDE Rohan (IND) 63 63
(2) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) bt BAINS Maniel (GBR) 63 62

Doubles First Round
(1) GAJJAR (IND)/ RAJA (IND) bt KUMAR (USA)/ ROY (IND) 63 36 10(8)
KIRRTANE (IND)/ MANUJA (IND) bt RAJU (IND)/ SELVARAJ (IND) 36 63 10(4)
(3) SHOKEEN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt GIDE (IND)/ MADKEKAR (IND) 36 63 10(7)
BAXENDINE (GBR)/ KANNAN (IND) bt EROS (ISR) /REDDY (IND) 64 75
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt KHAN (IND)/ PATWARDHAN (IND) 36 61 10(7)
(4) MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) bt JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ KAPOOR (IND) 61 62
NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) bt MARQUIS (IND)/ TIWARI (IND) 67(5) 62 10(8)
(2) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt SOOD (IND)/ SOOD (IND) 76(5) 62

Its more like Indian open than international futures as 26 players from 32 draw were Indians.

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