$10K ITF Futures - Colombo, SRI (Apr 4)

[jayakris]

Here is the entry list that came out today. Quite a few Indians there, in the week following Bangalore.

1 EITZINGER, Rainer AUT 337
2 GRUBER, Konstantin AUT 412
3 BOPANNA, Rohan IND 475
4 KANNAN, Vijay IND 526
5 MONROE, Nick USA 541
6 UPPAL, Vishal IND 566
7 MAYER-TISCHER, Peter GER 608
8 LIU, Tai-Wei TPE 627
9 FASS, Adam USA 731
10 GARCIA-RODRIGUEZ, Jose-Manuel ESP 793
11 RASTOGI, Karan IND 812
12 PATHANJALI, Ravi-Shankar IND 815
13 KANNAN, Kamala IND 844
14 MATHEW, Jaco IND 871
15 CHANG, Kai-Lung TPE 877
16 SIMPATIAJI, Prima INA 934
17 SINGH, Ashutosh IND 953
18 YU, Hiu-Tung HKG 1035

Alternates

19 KIM, Cheong-Eui KOR 1124
20 SYED, Rahil IND 1150
21 WONG, Wing-Luen "Wayne" HKG 1158
22 VAN DER WERF, Ordan NED 1296
23 TRIJATI, Sunu-Wahyu INA 1296
24 SANDBICHLER, Armin AUT 1346
25 GOUTHAM, Arjun IND 1346
26 POLASEK, Filip SVK 1346
27 HSIEH, Wang-Cheng TPE 1346
28 THOMSON, Clinton AUS 1346
29 SCHNEIDER, Michael GER 1466
30 WIJEMANNE, Renouk SRI 1466
31 SHITRIT, Matan ISR 1466
32 FILENKOV, Alexei RUS 1466
33 SCHEIL, Tobias GER 1466
34 REYES-RYGH, Narciso ESP 1466
35 OSWALD, Philipp AUT 1466
36 DE SANCTIS, Marco ITA 1466
37 NATHAN, Kris USA 1466
38 FISCHER, Martin AUT 1466

The good news is that Rohan has finally got his injury protected ranking of 475. I belive he may have the option of not using that rank, as he does not need it for this event. That is a big relief because, in case he does not pick up some 10-15 points in the next two weeks, he would have needed the injury ranking to enter a few foreign futures and get going.

Jay

[PKBasu]

Great to see that Rohan has his injury-protected ranking. He should use it for $15K+H Futures, and for Challengers overseas. I hope he doesn't waste it on the Colombo where he could even be seeded without his injury-protected ranking...

[amr090]

Its great to see Karan actively playing so many tournaments now!

[jaydeep]

Wow almost all Indian players (Below 500 ranking) r playing ... Karan is looking serious to increase his ranking asap.

Jaydeep.

[PKBasu]

By the time the Chennai and Bangalore Futures are done, Karan could be among the seeds in Colombo!

[jayakris]

Well, actually the ranks next monday 28th would be used for Colombo. So 4 pts from last week's semi will go in, but not the 4+ from this week. The Bangalore points will go in only the monday after Colombo.

Karan's point total has now gone from 13 to 21. Enough to move from 812 to right around 700 now. It will be a smoth move up from here I hope. Once these 4 weeks are done, he would hopefully be somewhere in the 500s at least.

Jay

[PKBasu]

Yes, I think he was too modest (in his interview with Kumar) in saying that his target is to get to the top-500. He will get there in a jiffy (in, like, 12 days from now possibly!). Given the way he is playing, top-300 by August seems a reasonable target.

[jaydeep]

Yes I agree Top 500 will he achieve very quickly, but then things go tougher ... But it would be great if he will be in 300+ in August.

Jaydeep.

[Omkara]

any updates on qualies............any indians out there

[meyyis]

Few scores that I found in the ITF site are:

[R1] SIMPATIAJI Prima (INA) d. PATHANJALI Ravi-Shankar (IND) : 3-6 6-4 6-3
[R1] (5)UPPAL Vishal (IND) d. WIJEMANNE Oshada (SRI) : 6-4 6-4
[R1] MATHEW Jaco (IND) d. DE SILVA Rohan (SRI) : 6-2 6-4

The other first round draws involving Indians are:
[R1] MISHRA Shivang (IND) vs. GARCIA-RODRIGUEZ Jose-Manuel (ESP)
[R1] (3) KANNAN Vijay (IND) vs. SINGH Ashutosh (IND)
[R1] SUKUL Saurav (IND) vs. TRIJATI Sunu-Wahyu (INA)
[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND) vs. (6) MAYER-TISCHER Peter (GER)
[R1] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND) vs. (4) MONROE Nick (USA)
[R1] KANNAN Kamala (IND) vs. KIM Cheong-Eui (KOR)
[R1] GOUTHAM Arjun (IND) vs. (2) GRUBER Konstantin (AUT)
[R1] RASTOGI Karan (IND) vs. SANDBICHLER Armin (AUT)

My match of the round is
[R1] (8) BOPANNA Rohan (IND) vs. FASS Adam (USA)

Will Bofors pull it out?

[meyyis]

The first round doubles results involving Indians:

RAJAPAKSE (SRI) / WIJEMANNE (SRI) d. GOUTHAM (IND) / MISHRA (IND) : 5-7 6-4 6-4
(3) BOPANNA (IND) / KANNAN (IND) d. GRUBER (AUT) / STEINER (AUT) : 6-3 6-2
DE SILVA (SRI) / VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) d. (4) MATHEW (IND) / PATHANJALI (IND) : 0-6 6-2 6-2
FISCHER (AUT) / SANDBICHLER (AUT) d. KIM (KOR) / SUKUL (IND) : 7-5 6-2
(2) SINGH (IND) / UPPAL (IND) d. GODAMANNE (SRI) / WIJEMANNE (SRI) : 6-4 2-6 6-3

[Sandeep]

Bopanna vs Fass should be an exciting match. I am also expecting a tough battle between Kannan and Ashutosh Singh.

[gvhvhg]

Poor Ravishankar keeps losing three setters, and did so in doubles too

You know who really should be playing these 10K's?? SKS....he really struggled in the Indian Futures.

[PKBasu]

If Rohan is seeded, I presume he is using his injury-protected ranking. I wish he hadn't "wasted" it on a $10K event. (Btw, Sunil is likely to be playing a $15K in Kashi, Uzbekistan).

[PKBasu]

The Sri Lanka newspapers seem even more cricket-obsessed than our own. Tough to find any coverage of this event...