Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Tennis News
At 2010 Wimbledon Championship, London England

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,111) l Angelique Kerber (GER,54) 46 16

Though disappointing but expected loss of Sania ... Was hoping more fighting performance from her but after giving some fight in the first set she didn't give any trouble to Kerber in second set.

Sania broke Kerber in the first game of the match and take 2-0 lead but Kerber broke back immediately to make it 2-all ... In 9th game Sania had break point chance which she missed and Kerber broke her in 10th game to won firt set ... In second set Kerber was too strong for Sania and lost only 1 game to win match.

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At $50K+H Reggio Emilia Challenger, Italy (Red clay)

[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Federico Gaio (ITA)/ Alessandro Giannessi (ITA) 67(4) 62 10-8

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) vs Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR)/ Peter Polansky (CAN)

Good comeback win by Purav and Sadik after losing first set against local pair.
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At $15K Malaysia F1 Futures 2010, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] Karan RASTOGI (IND,496) bt (8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,472) 62 26 63
[R1] (Q) Karunuday SINGH (IND,930) bt (3) Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,408) 64 26 63
[R1] (7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,443) bt (WC) Yew-Ming SI (MAS,1434) 60 64
[R1] (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,1415) bt (Q) Devin BRITTON (USA,1119) 76(6) 63

[R2] Karan RASTOGI (IND,496) vs (Q) Andrew THOMAS (AUS,1622)
[R2] (Q) Karunuday SINGH (IND,930) vs Murad INOYATOV (UZB,490)
[R2] (7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,443) vs Nathan THOMPSON (USA,537)
[R2] (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,1415) vs (6) Kaden HENSEL (AUS,432)
[R2] Yannick NELORD (IND,791) vs (2) Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE,313)

Superb win by Karunuday against top-400 type Japanese player, who was top-300 last year ... Karan again scored win over Gajjar in 3 sets ... Our players facing some tricky opponents in second round.
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At $15K+H France F9 Futures 2010, Toulon (Red clay)

[R1] (6) Rupesh ROY (IND,468) vs (WC) Jerome SCIARRINO (FRA,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Ashwin KUMAR (USA)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) bt Sebastian CURTIS (AUS)/ Tomas WILLIS (AUS) 64 62
[QF] (3) Ashwin KUMAR (USA)/ Rupesh ROY (IND) vs Didier LANNE (FRA)/ Sebastian SERRANO (COL)

This week Rupesh is 6th seed in singles, hopefully he will performance as per his ranking on the clay.

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