Tennis News

Singles First Round
(1) Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) 62 60
(WC) Nirupama Sanjeev (IND) bt (Q) Tamara Curovic (SRB) 76(5) 63
Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) bt Ganna Piven (UKR) 76(3) 63
(5) Nina Bratchikova (RUS) bt (WC) Prerna Bhambri (IND) 64 63

Nudnida Luangnam (THA) bt (4) Ksenia Palkina (KGZ) 57 61 5-0 Retd
Varatchaya Wongteanchai (THA) bt (Q) Kumari-Sweta Solanki (IND) 62 63
Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN) bt Keren Shlomo (ISR) 62 26 75
(6) Rika Fujiwara (JPN) bt Miki Miyamura (JPN) 62 61

(8) Anastasiya Vasylyeva (UKR) bt Nicole Clerico (ITA) 63 62
Sanaa Bhambri (IND) bt Anastasia Malhotra (JPN) 60 64
Poojashree Venkatesha (IND) bt (WC) Rashmi Teltumbde (IND) 62 63
(3) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) bt (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND) 64 75

(LL) Sheethal Goutham (IND) bt (Q) Shivika Burman (IND) 76(2) 26 64
(Q) Chen Astrogo (ISR) bt Dalila Jakupovic (SLO) 62 46 61
(WC) Sabina Sharipova (UZB) bt Magali De Lattre (POR) 64 63
(2) Masa Zec-Peskiric (SLO) bt Hae-Sung Kim (KOR) 63 64

Doubles First Round
(1) Bratchikova (RUS)/ Palkina (KGZ) bt Kim (KOR)/ Piven (UKR) 63 64
(Q) Prerna Bhambri (IND)/ Sharipova (UZB) bt (WC) Agrawal (IND)/ Rana (IND) 62 26 10(5)

Astrogo (ISR)/ Jovanovski (SRB) bt (3) Hisamatsu (JPN)/ Miyamura (JPN) 60 61
Lertcheewakarn/Wongteanchai (THA) vs (Q) Curovic (SRB)/ Jakupovic (SLO) 76(1) 62

Bhambri (IND)/ Chakravarthi (IND) bt (WC) Sanjeev (IND)/ Tulpule (IND) 64 46 10(7)
(4) Shlomo (ISR)/ Venkatesha (IND) bt (WC) Shrivastava (IND)/ Teltumbde (IND) 62 64

Solanki (IND)/ Sunkara (IND) bt Bhattacharyya (IND)/ Burman (IND) 75 64
(2) Clerico (ITA)/ Vasylyeva (UKR) bt De Lattre (POR)/ Malhotra (JPN) 60 63

Good start for Nirupama's mini comeback bid against 15 yrs old Serbian top-725 player (JWR #33) ... Sheetal also used lucky loser spot in her favor ... Yesterday Sanaa scored upset win over Anastasia Malhotra.

In doubles also, Nirupama gave tough fight to Sanaa and Rushmi with Radhika Tulpule.
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At $10K Malaysia F4 Futures, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] (Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,888) bt (WC) Adam JAYA (MAS,1488) 61 75
[R1] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,494) bt Raphael LUSTENBERGER (SUI,1360) 63 75
[R1] (Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,999) bt (WC) Razlan RAWI (MAS,UNR) 60 61
[R1] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,483) bt Sun-Yong KIM (KOR,818) 76(2) 62
[R1] Karan RASTOGI (IND,1137) bt Yew-Ming SI (MAS,1515) 63 46 63

[R2] (Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,888) vs (1) Nathan THOMPSON (USA,457)
[R2] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,494) vs Sebastian LAVIE (NZL,UNR)
[R2] (Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,999) vs (8) Petar JELENIC (CRO,567)
[R2] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,483) vs Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER,594)
[R2] Karan RASTOGI (IND,1137) vs (6) Murad INOYATOV (UZB,502)

All other Indians had winning start in singles but surprisingly Karan stretched to 3 sets against local player.