M15 Jakarta - August 2019

[Dinesh]

Some of our second-string players are in Indonesia playing the 15K futures.

1st Round

Soichiro MORITANI (JPN) 7-5 6-2 Karunuday SINGH (IND)
Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) [6] 6-2 6-1 Odeda Muhammad ARAZZA (INA)
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [4] 6-0 6-0 Ajeet RAI (NZL)
Luca CASTELNUOVO (SUI) [8] 7-6(4) 6-3 Aryan GOVEAS (IND)

Looks like Ajeet was returning from injury but great sportsmanship from him to finish the match unlike some players retiring in the second set while being down

[Dinesh]

Doubles:

Aryan GOVEAS (IND) / Karunuday SINGH (IND) 2-6 6-4 [11-9] Justin BARKI (INA) / Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) [1]
Kunal ANAND (IND) / Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) 7-6(8) 6-2 Armando C. SOEMARNO (INA) / Giorgio Alessandro SOEMARNO (INA)
S D Prajwal DEV (IND) / Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) [2] 6-2 7-6(3) Tsung-Hao HUANG (TPE) / Chien Hsun LO (TPE)

[suresh]

A not so great day in Djakarta.

[R2] (4) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) d Thantub SUKSUMRARN (THA) 6-4 6-4
[R2] Soichiro MORITANI (JPN) d (6) Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) 7-6(4) 7-6(5)

[QF] (4) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND, 679) vs Vladyslav ORLOV (UKR, 551)

In doubles, only one of our teams entered the SF. They are (2) S D Prajwal DEV (IND) / Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) and they play the third seeds Luca CASTELNUOVO (SUI) / Rhett PURCELL (NZL) in the SF.

[Dinesh]

QF Vladyslav ORLOV (UKR,551) 3-6 6-1 6-2 Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,679) [4]

[Dinesh]

Week 2:

Good wins by Kunal Anand to qualify for main draw.

Round 1
Kunal ANAND (IND) 4-6 6-4 [10-6] Cheng-Yu YU (TPE) [1]
Pak Long YEUNG (HKG) 6-3 7-6(6) S D Prajwal DEV (IND) [15]
Karunuday SINGH (IND) [4] 6-3 7-6(4) Mehluli Don Ayanda SIBANDA (ZIM)
Aryan GOVEAS (IND) [8] 6-0 6-2 Rishi REDDY (IND)

Round 2
Kunal ANAND (IND) 7-5 6-7(6) [10-8] Uisung PARK (KOR) [13]
Shao-Fan LIU (TPE) [14] 3-6 7-5 [11-9] Karunuday SINGH (IND) [4]
Aryan GOVEAS (IND) [8] 6-1 6-2 Cing-Yang MENG (TPE) [11]

[PKBasu]

Good wins for Niki and Aryan in R2 (PQF):

[R2] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND, 678) d. 3-Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN, 516) 64 67(1) 75
[R2] Manish Sureshkumar (IND) l. Ruan Roelofse (RSA) 46 46
[R2] Q-Aryan Goveas (IND, 668) d. 7-Kento Takeuchi (JPN, 599) 63 64

Kunal Anand lost in R1 of the main draw. You really have to be committed to tennis to trek all the way to Jakarta to play qualifiers in an ITF Futures. Entry fee is US$40, apart from the cost of flights, and there is no hospitality (so you have to pay extra for hotels).

Also, Ajeet Rai (NZL) d. Q-Aaron Schmid (SUI) 36 64 63

[PKBasu]

Manish/Kunal lost 26 26 in the doubles QF to the top-seeds.
Karunuday Singh and his British partner Gray beat Yamasaki/Ho 63 76(6) to make the doubles SF.

[PKBasu]

[QF] Sho SHIMABUKURO (JPN, 510) 6-1 6-3 Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND, 678)
[QF]Q-Aryan GOVEAS (IND, 668) 6-4 4-6 6-4 Kasidit SAMREJ (THA, 1376)
[QF] Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA, 748; career high 357) 6-3 6-3 Ajeet RAI (NZL)

21 year old Aryan Goveas continues his fine run in Jakarta (Samrej, his victim today, is an 18 year old ranked 90 in the juniors -- with a career high of 73 three months ago; he got into the draw as a Junior). I hope Aryan isn't too tired after playing 5 matches this week. Roelofse is next up.

[PKBasu]

Aryan Goveas lost the singles SF to Ruan Roelofse 76(3) 46 36.

[Dinesh]

WEEK 3:

QR1

Kunal ANAND (IND) [2] 6-2 6-4 Fitriadi M RIFQI (INA)
Haadin BAVA (IND) [13] 6-4 7-5 Jie-Ming PAI (TPE)
Sergey SHIPILOV (RUS) 7-5 6-2 Gokul SURESH (IND) [14]
Rishi REDDY (IND) [5] 6-2 6-0 Mohit BHARDWAJ (IND)
Dhruv SUNISH (IND) [9] 6-4 3-6 [11-9] Bill DUO (USA)
Amit BENIWAL (IND) 1-6 6-3 [10-7] Muthu Aadhitiya SENTHILKUMAR (IND) [8]
Prithvi SEKHAR (IND) [12] 6-1 6-0 Giorgio Alessandro SOEMARNO (INA)

QR2

Haadin BAVA (IND) [13] 6-4 4-6 [10-8] Kunal ANAND (IND) [2]
Kosuke OGURA (JPN) [11] 6-7(3) 6-3 [11-9] Rishi REDDY (IND) [5]
Dhruv SUNISH (IND) [9] 6-1 6-3 Jesse DELANEY (AUS) [6]
Prithvi SEKHAR (IND) [12] 6-1 6-1 Amit BENIWAL (IND)

8 of our players in the main draw including the 3 qualifiers. Hopefully, at least 4 of them will pass the first hurdle.

[PKBasu]

Kunal Anand got in as a Lucky Loser, but couldn't do much in R1:

Alexander CRNOKRAK (AUS, 837) 6-2 6-2 Karunuday SINGH (IND, 863)
Jumpei YAMASAKI (JPN) [3] 6-3 6-2 Kunal ANAND (IND, 1032)

Karunuday's singles career is winding down pretty rapidly.

[PKBasu]

A couple of doubles wins though:

[R1] Aryan GOVEAS (IND) / Matthew ROMIOS (AUS) 6-4 6-4 Bill DUO (USA) / Anthony SUSANTO (INA)
[R1] Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) / Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [3] 6-4 2-6 [10-7] Dusty H. BOYER (USA) / Ray HO (TPE)
[R1] Justin BARKI (INA) / Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) [2] 6-1 4-6 [10-6] Kunal ANAND (IND) / Rishi REDDY (IND)

[PKBasu]

Today's results so far:

[R1] Q-Haadin Bava (IND, 1795) d. 6-Ehara Hiroyasu (JPN) 75 64
[R1] Q-Prithvi Sekhar (IND) l. Susanto, David Agung (INA) 76(4) 26 36

Aryan Goveas leads Aaron Scmid (SUI) 6-1, 3-2

[PKBasu]

Aryan Goveas lost 6-1, 4-6, 4-6. Bad outcome after a dominant first set. The Swiss player plugged away until 4-4 in both sets, then broke.

[PKBasu]

8-Manish Sureshkumar (IND, 699) d. Phuong Van Nguyen (VIE, 1323) 61 64