Tennis News

Congratulations to Sanam Singh for winning ITA Sportsmanship award!!! Sanam Singh of the University of Virginia received the ITA Sportsmanship Award.

According to the report, he was chosen for this annual award by the 16 participating coaches at the ITA National Men's Team Indoor Championship for displaying outstanding sportsmanship and exemplifying the spirit of college tennis during the course of the Team Indoor Championship as well as throughout his career. He is the first Virginia player to win this award in the 19 years it has been presented.
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At $2M Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships 2010,

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,77) l Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP,33) 36 46


[R1] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) l Yung Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) 36 36

Sania lost in straight sets against WR #33 .. With her recent performances wasn't much hope from her in this big tourney.

Sania had injured her wrist in singles, really don't why she played in doubles in chance of increasing her injury threat ... She withdrawn from next week's Malaysia Open.
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At $10K Egypt F3 Futures 2010, Giza (clay)

[Q2] (5) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,893) l (14) Romain Sichez (FRA,1777) 62 57 67(1)
[Q2] (7) Ronak Manuja (IND,1200) bt (12) Adam Novak (CZE,1591) 75 76(5)

[R1] (PR) Karan Rastogi (IND,1002) vs (7) Gerard Granollers-Pujol (ESP,540)
[R1] (5) Rohan Gajjar (IND,470) vs (Q) Jeremy Jahn (GER,869)
[R1] (Q) Ronak Manuja (IND,1200) vs (1) Guillermo Alcaide (ESP,276)
[R1] (LL) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,893) vs Motaz Abou El Khair (EGY,813)

Doubles
[R1] Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND) vs Adam El Mihdawy (USA)/ Clement Reix (FRA)
[R1] (3) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Roman Vogeli (CZE) vs Stefano Valenti (ITA)/ Francesco Vilardo (ITA)

Ronak Manuja won closely fought his final qualifying match but other hand Srirambalaji lost closely fought final qualifying match ... But Srirambalaji is entering as lucky loser.

In main draw Ronak having toughest draw facing top-seed Spanish player ... I really don't know why top-275 player is playing in these futures ... I was really hoping after qualifying Ronak at least win one round to accumulate 1 point from this 3 weeks tour ... :-(

In second week a row Karan is facing Spanish Gerard Granollers-Pujol ... Hopefully he repeats last week's performance ... This week he is not playing doubles.
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At $25K Surprise ITF Womens Tournament, AZ , USA

[Q1] UBEROI Shikha (IND,573) bt FULLER Kate (USA,UNR) 61 60
[Q1] SANJEEV Nirupama (IND,NR) l CAKO Jacqueline (USA,500) 36 46

[Q2] UBEROI Shikha (IND,573) vs (14) CECIL Mallory (USA,481)

Nirupama played qualifying and lost in first round.
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At $15K Australia F1 Futures, Mildura (Grass)

[R1] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,382) vs (Q) LOOK Michael (AUS,1659)

Doubles
[R1] (2) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND)/ DANIELL Marcus (NZL) bt (WC) LEEDER-CHARD Aaron (AUS)/ PHILLIPS Cory (AUS) 76(4) 64

[QF] (2) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND)/ DANIELL Marcus (NZL) vs FROST Leon (AUS)/ GOH Steven (AUS)

Vishnu having good chance of performing well Down under as these futures r on the grass ... In doubles he is second seed and having winning start.
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At $15K Azerbaijan F1 Futures,

[R1] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND,479) vs (4) MIDDELKOOP Matwe (NED,349)

Tough match but happy to see Ranjeet playing at altogether different location.