[Tennis] Misc. Results for Indians abroad...

[nkoth]

Close, tight match, but Rajeev goes down in the first round of the Calabasas Challenger in California... Considering Mamiit's rank around 100, great great effort from the youngster.

(3)Cecil Mamiit (USA) d. (WC)Rajeev Ram (USA) 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-2

-neil

[nkoth]

Qatar F2 results:

R1

829 BARBU Adrian ROM d. 532 #5 GHOUSE Mustafa IND 6/4 6/1
507 #4 BERRER Michael GER d. 960 MATHEW Jaco IND 1/6 7/5 6/3
594 #7 KLEC Ivo GER d. 927 PUNNA Vishal IND 7/6(5) 6/4

Well, there goes another fruitless tourney for the second-stringers...

-neil

[nkoth]

Qatar doubles R1:

Jaco Mathew/Yew-Ming Si (IND/MAS) d. Nasser-Ghanim Al Khulaifi/Adbul Malik Cassien (QAT/RSA) 6-0 6-2
(4)Mustafa Ghouse/Philipp Marx (IND/GER) d. Mohammed Al Kuwari/Rishi Behl (QAT/IND) 6-2 6-4
(2)Jonathan Marray/David Sherwood (GBR) d. Takeshi Itoh/Vishal Punna (JPN/IND) 6-1 6-2

-neil

[nkoth]

Just noticed this match in the 1st round of qualies for next week's US F9:
(13)Ytai Abougzir (USA) vs Bharath Vembu (IND)
Anyone have any info on Vembu? Haven't heard his name before...

-neil


ADDENDUM:

Guess he shouldn't quit his day job -- he lost 6-0 6-0.

-neil

[nkoth]

This week's tourneys:

Kuwait F2
[R1] (8) Vishal Punna (IND) vs (q) Salah Bou Zidani (ALG)

Jamaica F3
[Q1] Amod Wakalkar (IND) d. Stefan Shaw (GBR) 60 60
[Q2] Amod Wakalkar (IND) l. (10) Alexander Hartman (SWE) 16 36
[R1] Wayne Odesnik (USA) vs (WC)Shantav Dhaka (IND)

-neil

[nkoth]

Incoming score...

Jamaica F3
[R1] Wayne Odesnik (USA) d. (WC)Shantav Dhaka (IND) 63 61

-neil

[nkoth]

Just to echo Jay's reporting on the news page:

Kuwait F2
[R1] (8) Vishal Punna (IND) d. (q) Salah Bou Zidani (ALG) 61 61
[R2] (8) Vishal Punna (IND) vs. (q) Horia Tecau (ROM)

[R1] (WC) Vishal Punna (IND)/ Ahmed Rabeea (KUW) d. Mohammed Al Foudari/ Hamed Al Solaiteen (KUW) 46 61 64
[QF] (WC) Vishal Punna (IND)/ Ahmed Rabeea (KUW) vs. (3) Amadeus Fulford-Jones (GBR)/ Christian Grunes (GER)

-neil

[nkoth]

Tournament over for Vishal.

Kuwait F2
[R1] (8) Vishal Punna (IND) d. (q) Salah Bou Zidani (ALG) 61 61
[R2] (8) Vishal Punna (IND) l. (q) Horia Tecau (ROM) 16 67 (5)

[R1] (WC) Vishal Punna (IND)/ Ahmed Rabeea (KUW) d. Mohammed Al Foudari/ Hamed Al Solaiteen (KUW) 46 61 64
[QF] (WC) Vishal Punna (IND)/ Ahmed Rabeea (KUW) l. (3) Amadeus Fulford-Jones (GBR)/ Christian Grunes (GER) 26 64 36

-neil

[jayakris]

I had hoped that this futures, supposedly the weakest in the history of ITF futures, due to the war situation there, would be a place where he could pick up some points. I guess that didn't work out..

Jay

[jayakris]

Sunil Kumar is in the entry list for next week's $10K in Kuwait. He has been down with a shoulder problem but almost played this week at Delhi - deciding in the end not to use a wildcard which he might have got if he asked.

Here is the entry list top-10 for Kuwait (starting May 5)

CASSAIGNE Julien (404 FRA)
KLEC Ivo (483 GER)
SIPAEYA Sunil-Kumar (548 IND)
FLYGT Kalle (616 SWE)
GRUNES Christian (619 GER)
HOMMEL Sander (711 NED)
MAAMOUN Mohamed (736 EGY)
BARBU Adrian (785 ROM)
BAHROUZYAN Omar (865 UAE)
PUNNA Vishal (909 IND)

Weak list. Hopefully SKS can pick up some points (that is if he manages to get to Kuwait - there were a lot of withdrawals loast week).

Jay

[nkoth]

Some of this week's (May 5-11) action --

Telecom Italia Masters (Rome) ATP:
Men's Doubles draw to be announced May 5

Kuwait F3:
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (draw to be announced)
Vishal Punna

Jamaica F4 qualifying:
[Q1] Amod Wakalkar (IND) bye
[Q2] Adam Valkin (RSA) vs Amod Wakalkar (IND)

USA F10 qualifying:
[Q1] Arindam Datta (IND) d. Patrick Ejlerschard (DEN) 6-3 6-4
[Q2] Marlon Korbut (USA) d. Arindam Datta (IND) 6-2 2-6 6-4

Portugal Satellites week 1:
Harsh Mankad (draw to be announced)

On the women's side --

$25K Sea Island Cloister Cup:
Sunitha Rao (IND/USA) (draw to be announced)

$5K Indore:
1 $ PHADKE, Sonal IND 673
2 $ GOUTHAM, Sheethal IND 674
3 BHAMBRI, Ankita IND 698
4 VENKATARAMAN, Archana IND 730=
5 LAKHANI, Isha IND 861
6 DHAWAN, Shruti IND 884=
7 PEREIRA, Liza IND 886=
8 RAO, Preeti IND 926=
Draw to be announced!

$50K Fukuoka, Japan
?Manisha Malhotra (or is she out following last week's injury?)

$10K Surabaya, Indonesia
Geeta Manohar (28/12/1983) IND 717 (draw to be announced)

I'm sure I'm missing a few?
-neil

[jayakris]

I think you got pretty much all of them. I edited the Portugal one to Harsh (not Rohan) ... Thanks nkoth - good work as awalys.

I think Manisha returend to india from Japan last week due to the twisted knee. I think she must have withdrawn from Fukuoka. Unfortunate injury, but she has been injury- and illness-prone often in her career.

Jay

[nkoth]

Whoops! Of course I knew that Harsh (and not Rohan) was playing the Portugal tourneys

Good luck to everyone playing this week!
-neil

[jayakris]

Kuwait first two round draws for our guys.

Top half:
(1)Julien Cassigne (FRA) vs Florin Mergea (ROM)
Vishal Punna (IND) vs (q)Horia Tecau (ROM)
Bottom half:
(q)Hamed Al Solaiteen (KUW) vs (q)Markus Egger (AUT)
(3)Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) vs (WC)Ali Sherif (UAE)

Sunil should not take Markus Egger for granted in the second round (assuming they both will win) .. Vishal ends up with the same guy he lost to last week ....

Jay

[nkoth]

Jamaica F4 update.

Qualifying:
[Q1] Amod Wakalkar (IND) bye
[Q2] Amod Wakalkar (IND) d. Adam Valkin (RSA) 6-0 6-4
[Q3] (5) Scott Willinsky (JAM) vs Amod Wakalkar (IND)

And in the 1st round:
[R1] (WC) Ben Kronk (USA) vs (WC) Shantanu Dhaka (IND)

I wonder why Shantanu keeps getting wild card's week after week in these Jamaican futures?

Also, in the Portugal satellites, there are a few Indians entered in the qualies -- with Harsh of course in the main draw.

[Q1] Saurav Sukul (IND) bye
[Q1] Nishank Mishra (IND) bye
[Q1] (9) Saurav Panja (IND) bye

[Q2] (3) Jose Luis Lara (ESP) vs. Saurav Sukul (IND)
[Q2] Martim Manoel (POR) vs. Nishank Mishra (IND)
[Q2] Jorge Godinho (POR) vs. (9) Saurav Panja (IND)

-neil