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Thought I must share this! Gene Pool. Plenty of young tennis players are showing promise. The way he played in the Davis Cup tie between India and Uzbekistan in Jaipur revealed he has matured beyond his years. If on the first day he stroked his way to a fluent victory, on the last day, even though t...

Joshna and Ghosal to play tomorrow.

Thanks for the results

You're welcome Sandeep

U-17 (2nd round): Cyrus Vakil bt Jaisingh Thory 9-3, 9-1, 9-6; Nitin Chauhan bt Sanjeet Gautam 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Laxman Joshi bt Sanmeet Anand 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Ashwin Sridhar bt Sujat Barua (Chennai) 9-2, 9-3, 9-1; Anup Sharma bt Udaychand Roy 9-1, 9-2, 9-6; Vikram Malhotra bt Shantanu Shankar 9-7, 9-0, ...

Results: Boys U-19 (1st round): Shantanu Shankar bt Manasvi Atrey 9-0, 9-0, 9-2; Anup Sharma bt Karun Kumar 9-0, 9-0, 9-2; Laxman Joshi bt Ashwin Sridhar 9-3, 9-2, 9-5; Cyrus Vakil bt Ishaan Thayamal 7-9,9-3, 9-5, 9-2; Kunwarpal Singh bt Virendra Pawar 9-5,9-2, 9-3; Parth Sharma bt Owais Gore 9-2, 9...

Thank you PKB, and as I said earlier, the pleasure is all mine

Also, top seed Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei clinched the singles title with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Montinee Tangphong of Thailand today. So Chan completed a double crown!

Its been a pleasure to give you all some first hand updates. I had a wonderful week watching tennis almost everyday (although not for long) and also catching up with some friends (if i can all them so ) Sorry for no point by point reports, but I hope you had fun reading the posts anyways!

I couldnt make it to Practennis today, although the results are: Singles (Semi-finals): Chi-Wei Chan (Tpe) bt Mihaela Buzarnescu (Rom) 6-4, 6-2. Montinee Tangphong (Thai) bt Yurika Sema (Jpn) 6-2, 6-1. I was told both these matches lasted just over an hour or so. So, the singles final would be #1 se...

I got to see Shruti's match. Lasted for almost 2 hours. She started very well, early break in the 4th game, came up to the net and volleyed beautifully. Again broke her opponent while leading 5-3 to take the set. In the second set too she was a break up 3-2. But then there was a lapse, and Yurika to...

Indian challenge ends... :( Singles (Quarter-finals): Chi-Wei Chan (Tpe) bt Natsumi Hamamura (Jpn) 6-1, 6-0 Yurika Sema (Jpn) bt Shruti Dhawan (Ind) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 Mihaela Buzarnescu (Rom) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind) 6-4, 6-2. Montinee Tangphong (Thai) bt Punam Reddy (Ind) 1-6, 6-1, 6-0. Doubles (Se...

A report on rediff:

Rushmi, Shruti survive early scare

There was a typo in the scoreline for Shruti's match as nothingnew pointed out. Shruti Dhawan (Ind) bt Thassha Vityaviroj (Thai) 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. Doubles Qf Results: Chin-Wei Chan/Julia Vorobieva bt Nudnida Luangnam/Sagarika Phadke 6-0, 6-2. Rushmi Chakravarthi/Sai-Jayalakshmy Jayaram w/o Cassandra Ba...

Doubles:

Chin-Wei Chan/Julia Vorobieva bt Nudnida Luangnam/Sagarika Phadke 6-0, 6-2.

Could you please confirm the score between MANOHAR Geeta IND vs Q-THONGDACH Pichittra THA? jirobkk, Pichittra won that match. Results for today- Mixed Fortunes. Rushmi, Shruti, Punam advance. Isha, Krushmi, Kavita lose. Singles: Chi-Wei Chan (Tpe) bt Isha Lakhani (Ind) 6-0, 6-4 Shruti Dhawan (Ind) ...

I have been e-mailing the reports to quite a handful of newspapers. So as long as they print it, it doesnt matter if its stolen or emailed by me :wink: Most local newspapers have some coverage and so does the TOI. Yesterdays matches: Megha, Tara & Puman were done with their matches when I reache...

Mumbai, 5th April, 2005: On a rewarding day for wild cards, Shruti Dhawan and Isha Lakhani of India registered impressive wins over fancied opponents to advance to the second round, in the US$10,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at the Practennis School of Tennis, Mumbai. Practennis girl Lakhani and...