$10K Men's Futures, Hyderabad (Sep 06)

[jayakris]

here is the entry list:

India F3 Futures

Main Draw - Last Updated : 24/08/2004 12:20:32 BST

1 KHAN, Aqeel PAK 582
2 SRIDHAR, Vinod IND 591
3 GHOUSE, Mustafa IND 621
4 RAMASWAMI, Ajay IND 683
5 LIU, Tai-Wei TPE 745=
6 KANNAN, Vijay IND 764
7 KWON, Chris USA 824
8 PUNNA, Vishal IND 838=
9 CHANG, Kai-Lung TPE 990=
10 SINGH, Ashutosh IND 1032=
11 PATHANJALI, Ravishankar IND 1032=
12 STOECKLER, Dominik SUI 1152= 3
13 SABECKIS, Gvidas LTU 1193= 3
14 SYED, Rahil IND 1261=
15 VAN DER WERF, Ordan NED 1261= 4
16 HSIEH, Wang-Cheng TPE 1317=
17 BRANISA, Igor SVK 1317= 4
18 SCHNEIDER, Michael GER 1433= 3

Alternates

19 KIRTANE, Nitin IND 1433=
20 NATHAN, Kris USA 1433= 1
21 RONDINELLI, Riccardo ITA 1433=
22 SINGH, Saurabh IND 1433=

Withdrawals

26 LIBERHAN, Tushar IND 1193= 20 Aug 04
27 HASHEMIAN, Koorosh IRI 1433=


Not too exciting. No Sunil Kumar, none of the youngster. Good to see Vishal Punna there. ArunPrakash - OK, I have given up waiting for him to play in India ... Somdev is getting ready to leave for the US, as he will be playing college tennis for the University of Virginia. Karan, Tushar and Divij may be going to the USO juniors that week and hopefully will be in Delhi for the futures the week after. Kamala Kannan and Jaco Mathew are missing, strangely. Manoj Mahadevan and Vishal Uppal have given up?

By the way, Vijay, Mustafa, Ajay and P.Ravishankar are listed for the Colombo $10K next week.

Jay

[jayakris]

The field is quite decent though. Guys like tai-Wei Liu, Kris Kwon and of course Aqeel can be tough.

Jay

[nkoth]

Apparently lots of rain so far in Hyderabad... they'll try to get the qualifier matches in again on Tuesday.

[jayakris]

Only one match was completed monday in the final qualies, and the young Sanam Singh qualified in .. The other matches hopefully got done today. Rupesh Roy is in the final qualies, as a re a lot of Indians.

Jay

[nkoth]

Q1 and Q2 scores are available here.

Q3 (in progress):
Sanam Singh (IND) d. Sandeep Kumar (IND) 6-2 6-3
Yannick Nelord (IND) vs Ajay Selvaraj (IND)
Arjun Gautam (IND) d. Anjan Viplav (IND) 6-3 6-1
Rupesh Roy (IND) vs Anantha L.S. Bhaskara (IND)
J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Kunal Pawa (SIN)
Martin Sayer (HKG) vs Dai-Chaio Lin (TPE)
Kedar Tembe (IND) d. Vikas Punna (IND) 6-3 6-3
Harshana Godamanne (SRI) vs Ranjeet Viralimurugesan (IND)
Kaushik Raju (IND) vs Sandeep Choudhary (IND)

[sramu]

The final qualies and 1st round results are in Hindu:
http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/08/stories ... 201900.htm

[PKBasu]

Good to see Jacco Mathew (at long last) pull off a good win, 76 62 over Mustafa; it's sad to see the latter's singles steadily sliding -- which is bound to constrain his otherwise-promising prospects in doubles. Humdinger between Vijay and Asutosh (11-9 in 3rd set tie-breaker won by Kannan) not a real surprise, given their respective recent trajectories. Good to see Vishal Punna regain some form, and Ravishankar sustain his. Looks like Arindam Datta (..not gvhvhg ) could not capitalise on what seems to have been a wildcard, losing cheaply to Ajay.

[nkoth]

...and too bad that Rupesh couldn't win his R1 match, so no points for him after his patient efforts over the last few days to qualify in.

[kathiresan_v]

The round 2 and doubles quartefinals results fron The Hindu;

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vishal Punna bt Arjun Goutham 6-2, 6-3, Vinod Sridhar bt A.R. Anand Kumar 6-0, 6-2, Ajay Ramaswami bt Ravishankar Pathanjali 6-3, 6-3, Sanam Singh bt Jaco Mathew 6-1, 6-1, Chris Kwon (U.S.) bt Kedar Tembe 7-5, 6-4, Aqeel Khan (Pak) bt Vikas Punna 6-0, 6-0, Tai Wei Liu (Tpe) bt Nitin Kirtane 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, Vijay Kannan bt Kai Lung Chang (Tpe) 7-6(3), 7-6(3).

Doubles (quarterfinals): Ashutosh Singh/Gurmehar Singh bt Anand Kumar/Rohan Gide 6-3, 5-7, 6-4; Jaco Mathew/Vinod Sridhar bt Arindam Datta/Vishal Punna 6-4, 6-2; Chris Kwon(U.S.)/Tai Wei Liu (Tpe) bt Vijay Kannan/Aqeel Khan 6-2, 6-3; Mustafa Ghouse/Ajay Ramaswami bt Nitin Kirtane/Ravishanker Pathanjali 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.


Sridhar in last eight

Kathir

[jayakris]

Pretty damn good results so far by Indians. Sanam Singh's 61 61 win over Jacco Mathew is pretty impressive, considering that Sanam is just a kid still.

But who can bell the cat who goes by the name of Aqeel Khan? --- I have rarely been so impressed with somebody's drive and consistency like I have been about Aqeel's show in the last 3 months. Racking up points like nobody's business!

Jay

[jaydeep]

Amazing performance by Aqeel ... Player to watch ... Sanan Singh is another lad who can go places if he keep improving like this ... He is learning quickly on the curcuit.

jaydeep.

[saleem_hamad]

WoW!! Aqeel Khan has really done himself proud!! He is undoubtedly playing the best tennis of his life! Im not too sure how many points he will get for his 3 victories and 1 runners up spot during the Satellites....but I think he will have had enough to get into the top 350 or thereabouts!
And that from a player who would have been credited with playing just 2 tournaments (since the entire Satellite circuit is taken as one tournie!)
Man he sure has been going great guns!
And proved it even further with a 6-0 6-0 thumping of Vikas Punna.
Its great to see him finally get the chance to compete at the international level...and the great thing is that he is not only competing....but winning it all!
If he keeps getting the chances to play on the circuit....at his rate he'd be challenging Aisam for the top spot in Pakistani tennis pretty soon!
I hope he can win this future and hopefully continue playing the circuit!
Hamad

[jayakris]

Singles (quarterfinals):

Chris Kwon (USA) bt Sanam Singh 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-3
Tai Wei Liu (Tpe) bt Vinod Sridhar 6-2, 6-2
Ajay Ramaswami bt Vishal Punna 6-4, 6-2
Aqeel Khan (Pak) bt Vijay Kannan 6-3, 7-6(5).

Doubles (semifinals):

Mustafa Ghouse/Ajay Ramaswami bt Ashutosh Singh/Gurmehar Singh 6-2, 6-4
Chris Kwon/Tai-Wai Liu bt Jaco Mathew/Vinod Sridhar 6-0, 6-3

So, only Ajay left, out of 5 Indians in the QFs .. But, what a great match by Sanam Singh against somebody as good as Chris Kwon!

Jay

[jaydeep]

Yes Sanam Singh showing tremendous improvement .. his confidence must be high after this outing ... now he should develop and get properly nurture from proper people ... Ajay is playing consistent tennis in this tournament ... Reaching doubles final and Singles SF ... hopefully he will keep winning more and more matches ... atlast someone give some trouble to Aqeel ... Match was close one ... but Aqeel's confidence booming these days ... so he played big points better than his opponent ... and in winning that matter most.

jaydeep.

[jayakris]

Singles (semifinals):

(1) Aqeel Khan (PAK) d. Chris Kwon (USA), 76(4) 75
(5) Tai Wei Liu (Tpe) d. Ajay Ramaswami (IND), 64 46 62

Doubles final postponed to Saturday due to rain.

Kowtow, kowtow, Mr. Khan !! .. Wow, un-friggin-believable consistency. he now has 29 pts form Indian satellites, 36 from Pakistan futures and 8 more from the INDIA F3 for 73 total points and a rank inside top-380.

Jay