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

[jayakris]

Lots of lower ranked Indian mens players are playing in Congo, Africa these couple of weeks. This week there were 6 Indians players in main draw, 3 of them- 4th seed Rishab Agarwal, Chirag Duhan and Ishaque Eqbal. But, only Rishab has made it to the QF. He will play Egyptian Karin Mohmed Maamoun in the QF. 32 year old Maamoun is currently ranked 996 but was ranked at 225 about 6 years back.

Rishab lost to Mamouun, 26 67(4) at the Brazzaville, Congo, M25 QF.

[Dinesh]

Rutuja and Vasanti Shinde are in the W100 Figueira Da Foz ITF in Portugal this week.

Rutuja was not in the singles entry list, so this might have been a last minute decision from her to play only doubles. She’s slated to play in England next week at a W25 event in Foxhills.

At the W100 Figueira Da Foz, Portugal (Hard),

R1:

(4) Rutuja Bhosale/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs Sana Garakani (POR)/ Milla Segueira (POR)
Vasanti Shinde/ Isabella Shinikova (BUL) vs Estelle Cascino (FRA)/ Ylena In-Albon (SUI)

[sameerph]

This week in Brazzaville, Congo, M25, 2 Indians - 5th seed Rishab Agarwal and Ishaque Eqbal have made it to singles QF.

Ishaque upset 4th seeded American Browing in first round in straight sets and a player from Togo in 3 sets in second round. Rishab has easy wins against fellow Indian Atharv Sharma in first round and Daniil Savalev from Russia in second round.

Rishab will play French top seed Calvin Hemery in ranked 343 in QF and Ishaque plays Brazil Matteo Barreios Ryes ranked 1086 in QF.

[sameerph]

Both Indians lost in the QF. Rishab lost 67(4) 67(3) against top seed while Ishaque Eqbal lost 16 26 against Brazillian player.

[Dinesh]

Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta and Sid Banthia won the M25 Astana tournament defeating the Estonian pair of Saar/Glinka 7-5 6-7 (13) 10-4. This is SKRG’s 5th ITF doubles title ms the 1st of this highest level (M25), and Banthia’s 6th ITF title and the 1st of this level.

[jayakris]

Chirag Duhan (3rd seed in Q) and Dev Javia (10th seed) have made it to the main draw with 3 wins each, at the Monastir M15 in Tunisia this week. Their R1 matches are on Wednesday.

[sameerph]

Both Dev Javia and Chirag Duhan lost in first round of main draw in straight sets.

[jayakris]

Chirag Duhan was the second seed in the qualies at the Monastir M15 this week and made it into the main draw with 2 wins after a bye. But he went down in the R1 against the 5th seed Matthew Dellavedova (568), 46 02 RET.

[jayakris]

Chirag Duhan has reached the doubles final at the M15 in Monastir, Tunisia, partnering Garrett Johns (USA). They play the 3rd seeded USA pair Ryan Seggerman and Patrik Trhac today.

Our players had poor luck in singles, but have had a great doubles week. M15 THA, M15 TUN, W25 THA, W15 AZR ... All these events have Indians in doubles final, and all of them were unseeded!

[jayakris]

^^^ Chirag and Garret Jones went down 16 36 against the 3rd seeds. So we ended up with 1-3 in the four finals by all these unseeded teams today. Not bad still...

[gunsnroses]

There is a M25 Kigali in Rwanda this week. 12 Indians in the main draw. S D Prajwal Dev and Rishab Agarwal seeded 5th and 6th respectively.
In doubles, Sid Banthia/Karteek Reddy seeded 2nd and S D Prajwal/Ishaque Eqbal seeded 3rd. Expecting a win/runner-up in both the categories.

[jayakris]

^^ Yes, Sameer and I were waiting for the draw to come out to start a thread. Thanks for the alert!

Here is the thread for the two Kigali M25s this week and the next.

[gunsnroses]

Chirag Duhan(IND/Samir Banerjee(USA) went down in the men's doubles finals at M15 Monastir this week. They lost to the top seeds Niklas Schell(GER)/Oscar Weightman(GBR) 3-6 2-6

Second consecutive final for Chirag.

[jayakris]

^^^ I think Chirag has good talent, based on the one time I saw him play, on an ITF live stream. That is probably why he is already having some doubles success, like many from India. To do well in singles, somebody needs to coach him rigorously on a lot of details and he needs to get a bit stronger physically. I doubt those things are happening. The age old problem of coaching in India. Many of our players need to learn things the hard way over many years, and by the time they become half-way decent on the pro singles tour, they are too old

[jayakris]

Sowjanya, and Shrivalli made the main draw as among the last couple of entries at the W25 in Perth, AUS (hard) this week. Sravya was the 2nd seed in the qualies with a bye and made the main draw with a 64 75 win over an unranked 15 year old Australian. Thee three are there for next week's W25 in Perth as well, but they are 5th, 6th and 11th out from the main draw. It doesn't look like we should start a thread for the 2-week W25 series in AUS, so let us keep the results here. Or can move the posts if any of them do well.

Teja, Smriti and Vaishnavi are in the main draw at the W15 in Monastir. The first two play the top seed and the 3rd seed. Vaishnavi got a wildcard in R32. Three less-known Indians are in the final qualies today there (Pari Singh, Addi Gupta and Lakshmi Singh).