Vijayant Malik thread

[sameerph]

He lost in straight sets.

At $10K USA F20,Godfrey, IL

[R2] (2) MALIK, Vijayant (IND,462) l. (WC) KING, Evan (USA,1274) 06 46

Hoping for better performance in next 2 weeks as he settles down there.

[Omkara]

USA F21 FUTURES - DECATUR, IL

Round 1

(q) vs (2)Vijayant Malik (IND)

Hoping for a better result from Vijayant this week...

[sameerph]

At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur, Illinois

[R1] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) vs (Q) Fares GHASYA (LBA,UNR)

So, Vijayant faces a qualifier from Libya. First time seeing a tennis player from Libya but he qualified easily after upsetting the qualies top seed in the final qualifying round.

[sameerph]

At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur, Illinois

[R1] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) d. (Q) Fares GHASYA (LBA,UNR) 62 46 63

Much tougher match than expected for Vijayant. He needs to play better in tougher matches in the subsequent rounds.

Next,

[R2] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) vs. Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA,787)

[sameerph]

At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur, Illinois

[R2] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) d. Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA,787) 61 61

Comprehensive win by Vijayant in the second round. He will play the winner of 2 American qualifiers, Ryan Shane & Becker O'Shaughnessey in the QF.

[PKBasu]

Crowley played the India Futures, but I don't think he lost as badly to anyone there. Good stuff from Vijayant!

[arjun2761]

Ryan Shane is a Virginia Cavalier who is ranked nationally collegiately, so he probably significantly better than his ranking. He also beat Sanam in the recent prize money tournament before losing easily to Somdev. Vijayant should be able to take him (if Shane gets there) but it may be a tough match.

[Tolamu]

R2 (q)B O'Shaughnessey(USA) d. R Shane(USA) 6-3 3-6 6-3
QF (2)V Malik(IND) vs (q)B O'Shaughnessey(USA)

[sameerph]

Ryan Shane is a Virginia Cavalier who is ranked nationally collegiately, so he probably significantly better than his ranking.

Shane lost in the second round. But, in fact most of the guys in this futures are college players who are underranked. I was wondering how the Libyan guy took Vijayant to 3 sets in the first round & found that he is another one from university of Illnois & had beaten some college top 10 players this year.

At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur, Illinois

[QF] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) vs (Q) Becker O'SHAUGHNESSEY (USA,UNR)

Becker is a university of Alabalma freshman who had a couple of impressive wins over former/ current UVA players Shabaz & Shane in the first 2 rounds. Hopefully, Vijayant can still take care of him.

[Saniapower]

At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur, Illinois

[QF] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND,462) d (Q) Becker O'shaughnessy (USA,UNR) 6-4 6-1
[SF] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND,462) VS (6) Eric Quigley (USA,550)

[sameerph]

Another nice confident win by Vijayant.

Quigley is a 2012 NCAA runner up having lost to Steve Johnson in that finals. But , he is not having as much success in pros as you would expect from NCAA runner up. He is having some challenger wins though & beat 4th seed easily in QF here.

So, this is a real challenging match for Vijayant.

[PKBasu]

Very nice work this week from Vijayant to make the SF in a Futures field filled with college stars.

[Saniapower]

At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur, Illinois

[SF] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND,462) l. (6) Eric Quigley (USA,550) 6-7(3) 4-6

Malik was up 5-3 in the 1st set.

[sameerph]

Good match by Vijayant against 2012 NCAA runner up although he could not force a win. Overall, much improved performance by Vijayant this week. Hope he keeps up/ further improves his performance next week.

[sameerph]

Vijayant plays a local qualifier in the first round this week.

At $10K USA F22 Futues, Edwardsville, Illinois

[R1] (4) Vijayant MALIK (IND,468) vs. (Q) Julian Allen CHILDERS (USA,NR)