African ITF Series April-May 2018 - Nigeria/ Uganda/ Zimbabwe

[Atithee]

Vishnu, could you please just post a snippet of the quoted text rather than the whole thing when you respond to someone’s post? It makes reading and managing the thread easier. Thanks.

[VReddy]

Vishnu, could you please just post a snippet of the quoted text rather than the whole thing when you respond to someone’s post? It makes reading and managing the thread easier. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback, noted!

[jayakris]

No fireworks so far by our Indians in Uganda today... The Kiwindian upset VSK and Jayesh lost a close match.

[R2] Kunal Anand (IND,1167) l. (1) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,273), 64 63
[R2] Jayesh Pungliya (IND,1080) l. Darko Bojanovic (BIH,1132), 46 76(4) 57
[R2] Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND,1160) l. (WC) Ajeet Rai (NZL,NR), 61 36 36

[sameerph]

A little better results in the last 2 matches.

[R2] S D Prajwal Dev (IND,1354) d. (Q) Christoffer Solberg (SWE,1916) 64 57 63

[R2] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,1252) l. (Q) Vasisht Cheruku (IND,1942) 63 76(6)

Good couple of wins by 21 year old Prajwal Dev, one of the younger ones out here. Would have liked 18 year old Vasisht to beat 32 year old Ranjit but the veteren proved too strong. Heard of Vasisht as talented player and has been training in acadamy in Spain. But, looks to be still taking time to win much in pros.

Tough matches for all our players in second round ( including the Kiwindian too here)-

[QF] S D Prajwal Dev (IND,1354) vs. (1) (1) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,273)
[QF] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,1252) vs. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,530)
[QF] (WC) Ajeet Rai (NZL,NR) vs. (2) Fabrizio ORNAGO (ITA,432)

[sameerph]

As expected all 3 lost.

[QF] S D Prajwal Dev (IND,1354) l. (1) (1) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,273) 16 46
[QF] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,1252) l. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,530) 57 26
[QF] (WC) Ajeet Rai (NZL,NR) l. (2) Fabrizio ORNAGO (ITA,432) 46 36

2 more weeks to play here in Uganda for these players.

[sameerph]

These are qualifying results this week -

Q1
Dhruv SUNISH (IND) [1] 6-1 6-3 Prashanth SELVARAJ (IND)
Lance-Pierre DU TOIT (RSA) [2] 7-5 6-0 Kunj KOTAK (IND)
Jordan PARKER (USA) [3] 6-2 6-1 Kavan SOMU KUMAR (IND)
Rishi REDDY (IND) 6-4 6-3 Simon Peter AYELLA (UGA)
Anton CHEKHOV (RUS) [6] 6-2 6-3 Ansu BHUYAN (IND)
Paras DAHIYA (IND) 6-4 6-2 Sergey DOROZHKIN (RUS) [8]
Vasisht CHERUKU (IND) [12] 6-4 7-6(2) Sahil GAWARE (IND)

Q2
Dhruv SUNISH (IND) [1] 6-0 7-6(4) Ibrahim Kibet YEGO (KEN)
Rishi REDDY (IND) 5-7 7-5 6-4 Jordan PARKER (USA) [3]
Vasisht CHERUKU (IND) [12] 7-5 6-3 Paras DAHIYA (IND)

So, 3 Indian qualify for main draw to join 5 others who are already in the main draw to make it 8 Indians in the main draw here.(9 if you include KiwiIndian)

[sameerph]

Only Jayesh is seeded but hope to see some upsets like last week-

At $15K Uganda F3 Futures, Kampala

[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1160) vs. (WC) Boris AGUMA (UGA,NR)
[R1] Kunal ANAND (IND,1167) vs. (Q) Yacoub MAKZOUME (SYR,NR)
[R1] S D Prajwal DEV (IND,1354) vs. Nicolas URYSON (ARG,1201)
[R1] (8) Jayesh PUNGLIYA (IND,1080) vs. (SE) Ajeet RAI (NZL,NR)
[R1] (Q) Dhruv SUNISH (IND,1368) vs. (Q) Arturs LAZDINS (LAT,1354)
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,1252) vs. (Q) Vasisht CHERUKU (IND,1942)
[R1] (Q) Rishi REDDY (IND,NR) vs. (2) David PEREZ SANZ (ESP,437)

[bujilover]

Clean sweep by our players on day 1.

Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 6-0 6-2 Boris AGUMA (UGA)
Kunal ANAND (IND) 6-3 6-2 Yacoub MAKZOUME (SYR)
S D Prajwal DEV (IND) 6-4 6-1 Nicolas URYSON (ARG)
Dhruv SUNISH (IND) 7-5 6-2 Arturs LAZDINS (LAT)

Jayesh PUNGLIYA (IND) / Dhruv SUNISH (IND) 6-0 6-1 Boris AGUMA (UGA) / Ibrahim Kibet YEGO (KEN)
Kunal ANAND (IND) / Giovani SAMAHA (LBN) [4] 6-1 7-5 Ahmed CHOUDHARY (PAK) / Nicolas URYSON (ARG)
Tommaso GABRIELI (ITA) / Marco MICELI (ITA) 2-6 7-6(5) [10-6] Joe COOPER (GBR) / Ajeet RAI (NZL)
Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) / Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 6-4 6-3 Lance-Pierre DU TOIT (RSA) / Arturs LAZDINS (LAT)
Vasisht CHERUKU (IND) / S D Prajwal DEV (IND) 6-0 6-1 Jordan PARKER (USA) / Emmett WARD (USA)

[sameerph]

Remaining 3 singles results resulted in losses for our players.

[R1] (8) Jayesh PUNGLIYA (IND,1080) l. (SE) Ajeet RAI (NZL,NR) 26 36
[R1] (Q) Rishi REDDY (IND,NR) l. (2) David PEREZ SANZ (ESP,437) 46 36
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,1252) d. (Q) Vasisht CHERUKU (IND,1942) 61 46 62

Next,

[R2] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1160) vs. (1) Ivan NEDELKO (RUS,261)
[R2] Kunal ANAND (IND,1167) vs. (WC) Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BDI,NR)
[R2] S D Prajwal DEV (IND,1354) vs. (4) Shalva DZHANASHIYA (RUS,634)
[R2] (Q) Dhruv SUNISH (IND,1368) vs. (SE) Ajeet RAI (NZL,NR)
[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,1252) vs. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,580)

[bujilover]

Other than Kunal, I don't see anyone producing an upset/winning tomorrow. Will Dhruv/Prajwal surprise us?

[sameerph]

Kunal also lost but Dhruv won to be the only quarter finalist for us.

[R2] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1160) l. (1) Ivan NEDELKO (RUS,261) 67(3) 46
[R2] Kunal ANAND (IND,1167) l. (WC) Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BDI,NR) 26 46
[R2] S D Prajwal DEV (IND,1354) l. (4) Shalva DZHANASHIYA (RUS,634) 26 57
[R2] (Q) Dhruv SUNISH (IND,1368) d. (SE) Ajeet RAI (NZL,NR) 76(5) 61
[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,1252) l. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,580) 26 64 16

Next,

[QF] (Q) Dhruv SUNISH (IND,1368) vs. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,580)

[arjun2761]

Good to see 18 year old Dhruv Sunish get a win and a berth in the QFs. Hasn't done much so far but has a win over Sasi Mukund earlier this year, so he does seem to have potential...

[sameerph]

Dhruv lost in straight sets to end the Indian challenge here.

[QF] (Q) Dhruv SUNISH (IND,1368) l. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,580) 36 36

One more week to play for these players in Uganda.

[PKBasu]

Good to see the progress by young Dhruv Sunish. Losing to the 3rd seed is no disgrace.

[bujilover]

Dhruv lost in straight sets to end the Indian challenge here.

[QF] (Q) Dhruv SUNISH (IND,1368) l. (3) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,580) 36 36

One more week to play for these players in Uganda.

Can you update the thread title to include Zimbabwe also? There is a series of $15K Futures starting next week in Zimbabwe and we have plenty of players in MD and QD, 14 in total.

Arjun Mahadevan is seen in the Q list - his dad is one of the SIC members here. Arjun has turned 18 and is starting to play in the Pro circuit it seems.