Thai 15K Futures 31 July - 20 Aug

[Rajiv]

Three 15K Futures takes place in Thailand from 31st July to 14 Aug and it has a considerable Indian presence.

In the First Leg & the Second leg , Rushabh Agrawal , Haddin Bawa and the serial South East Asian tournament player KU make up the list

For the 3rd leg joining the Trio will be list of interesting names , led by Saki , Sasi Mukund , VSP and a surprising entry is that of Pragnesh,
First all off he shouldn't be playing these 15K lowly futures any longer secondly that tournament ends on 20 and it is will very close to US qualies commencing on 22 Aug
So to make a dash half way round the world and this is all assuming he makes the Finals in Thailand is all too a bigger risk .
Probably he should withdraw and not take a risk being so near to the US Open and also playing in the other half of the globe.

[sameerph]

Saki, Sasi, Sid Rawat are all playing in China challengers in the next 2 weeks. So,they will mostly make their way to their way for a week in Thailand.

I think Prajnesh will withdraw from here. There is no point in him playing here a week before US open qualies.

[sameerph]

In the first week, couple of Indians ( Manish Sureshkumar and Shabaz Khan) were in qualifying draw but could not qualify. 3 Indians in main draw.

At $15K Thailand F4 Futures,Nonthaburi

[R1] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,710) vs. Soichiro MORITANI (JPN,753)

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,740) vs. Haadin BAVA (IND,759)

[Rajiv]

A nice straight sets 6-3 , 6-4 win by Rishabh over a similar ranked Japaneses opponent in the R1 , The scoreline looked solid breaking his opponent at crucial times and holding comfortably and even quickly getting a break back to record a good win , Hope he goes deep in this tournament and lives up to his potential which he showed couple of years ago.

Few hours later an interesting match coming up with Haddin Bawa taking on KU.

[sameerph]

Jaydeep, we have a different thread for women;s tournament. So, I moved your and Dinesh's posts to that thread.

These are the mens results today-

At $15K Thailand F4 Futures,Nonthaburi

[R1] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,710) d. Soichiro MORITANI (JPN,753) 63 64

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,740) d. Haadin BAVA (IND,759) 64 62

Next,

[R2] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,710) vs. (4) Cheng-Yu YU (TPE,557)

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,740) vs. (5) Tung-Lin WU (TPE.569)

Tough matches for both. Wu beat KU in straight sets last week in China. So, he will be looking for revenge win.

[jaydeep]

Oh, thanks Sameer.

[sameerph]

KU pulled off a nice revenge win.

At $15K Thailand F4 Futures,Nonthaburi

[R2] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,710) l. (4) Cheng-Yu YU (TPE,557) 46 36

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,740) d. (5) Tung-Lin WU (TPE.569) 75 36 76(4)

Next,

[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,740) vs. (3) Sora FUKUDA (JPN,440)

Fukuda is a talented 19 year old who has won a couple of titles in last few weeks.

[PKBasu]

Good to see Karunuday achieve some good singles results over the past couple of weeks just as we were despairing over the fate of his singles career.

[Rajiv]

Just when a rewamp looked in sight,KU couldn't maintain the momentum and goes down in straight sets 3&4 to the Japanese 3rd seed

[PKBasu]

Well, the third seed is 300 ranking slots ahead of him, but there clearly is progress in Karunuday's singles game over the past few weeks (without quite getting back to his career-best standards).

[suresh]

For the sake of completenesss:

[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,740) l (3) Sora FUKUDA (JPN,440) 4-6 3-6

[VReddy]

At $15K Thailand F5 Futures, Nonthaburi


[R1] Karunuday SINGH (689, IND) Vs Yuanfeng Li (1152, CHN)
[R1] Rishab AGARWAL (820, IND) Vs Francis Alcantara (772, PHI)
[R1] Haadin Bava (768, IND) d Justin Barki (1345, IDN) 7-5 6-4


Manish Sureshkumar, Siddharth Vishwakarma, Nitin Kumar Sinha, Shahbaaz Khan lost in the Qualies

[sameerph]

KU won his match but Rishab lost.

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,689) d. (Q) Yuanfeng Li (CHN.1152) 36 62 64

[R1] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,820) l. Francis Alcantara (PHI,772) 57 46

Next,

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,689) vs. (3) Nam Hoang LY (VIE,472)

[R2] Haadin BAVA (IND,772) vs. Pruchya ISARO (THA,948)

[bujilover]

Both winnable matches.

[sameerph]

Nice upset win by KU won his match but Haadin lost.

At $15K Thailand F5 Futures , Nothanburi

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,689) d. (3) Nam Hoang LY (VIE,472) 75 61

[R2] Haadin BAVA (IND,772) l. Pruchya ISARO (THA,948) 16 26

Next,

[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,689) vs. Soichiro MORITANI (JPN,765)