ITF under-14 Asian tennis zone `I' championship

[Kumar]

Indian team has been selected for ITF under-14 Asian tennis zone `I' championship to be held in Delhi From march 27 to April 9th..

The team:

Boys: Christopher Marquis, Sameer Paranjape, Ronak Manuja, Mansingh Athare and Yuki Bhambri.

Girls: Shweta Solanki, Prerna Mythri, Aishwarya Srivastava, Rashmi Teltumbde and G. Janaki Rao.

Coach: T. Chandrasekaran.

http://www.hindu.com/2005/03/02/stories ... 931800.htm

P.S: This article is under 'Astronomy' Section of sports!!!

[jayakris]

Those are good teams. Generally all the names I had started having an eye on, are all there. Good job by the selection committee. I was actually surprised to see Rushmi Teltumbde, who is only 18th in the u14 Indian ranking, in the team .. I think she is betterthan her ranking shows.

A couple of 12 year old AP players ranked right at the top of the 14s have been left out ...

Jay

[jaydeep]

Jay, is this Sameer Paranjape is that good to select in Indian under 14 team???

Jaydeep.

[jayakris]

Well, he is ranked 3rd in the u14 ranks .. Why do you ask?

Jay

[jaydeep]

Ok so he climbed substantially from 49th ranked (which was showing in January 2004 under 14 ranking from ur own page.) to No. 3 in a year ... Case open and closed ..

Jaydeep.

[jayakris]

Jaydeep -- Have you been following the maharashtra players? .. 4 of those guys are form Maharashtra ..

Jay

[jaydeep]

Marquis I m following, but not others ... But henceforth will defienetly try to follow all these guys (Marquis, Ronak, Sameer and Athare). Prachi Nadkarni is also missing in gal's section.

Jaydeep.

[Kumar]

Looks like none of the players are from TN.. Is the talent cupboard bare in TN in this age group ?

[knarayen]

just curious, wasnt Gayatri Krishnan in this age group? Ramesh's daughter, I thought she was doing well sometime ago.

Cheers,
krish

[Sandeep]

Yes, even I was wondering about gayatri krishnan. But Jay do you have any where abouts about our next 'SANIA' prerana Mythry. I haven't seen much of her recently.

[jayakris]

Oh well, sandeep.. I give up .. That is the 3rd even in a row in the last three posts I saw .. Oh well, I tried. This stuff is so ingrained in us Indians I guess...

sandeep -- I have been very quiet about Prerna Mythri. I will have to wait and see in a few years. She looks like an awfully big girl for her age. Once again, it is sad that I have to go quiet on some players from AP who people murmur about .. I have no proof, and it is unfair, but what do we do? .. If she is of the right age, her results are rather impressive - though not at the Sania level or anything. Anyway, none of these girls have shown that Sania-like winning mentality though, based on the results.

Krish - it is Nandita Krishnan who is in the u14 range. Gayatri is older. Nandita is #9 in the u14 rankings, and generally has not had the kind of results that these other girls have had.

Jay

[jaydeep]

Jay any news about Supriya Mallaya, who had very good results last year and was playing really well in Under 14 category ... I m feeling surprised after not finding her name in the list.

Jaydeep.

[jayakris]

Here are the scores from the first two rounds on Thursday and Friday.

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Boys Round 1: (Bottom 4 seeds shown with "S"; not sure of the seedings)

1 Pattrayu Chumpetch (THA)       d.   Sameer Paranjape (IND)         63 61
  Nam Lam (VIE)                  d.   Albert Godjali (INA)           26 62 64
  Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)         d.   Mark Jaypee Balce (PHI)        62 63
S Alexander Chen (UZB)           d.   Darren Ng (HKG)                61 64
4 Ryan Cheung (HKG)              d.   David Agung Susanto (INA)      61 61
  Chung-Su Chen (TPE)            d.   Gim-Hong NIxon Ooi (MAS)       61 63
  Ronak Manuja (IND)             d.   Dineshkanthan Thangaraja (SRI) 61 62
S Mansingh Athare (IND)          d.   Pongsakorn Hemyakorn (THA)     62 62
S Pao Wichayaketsophorn (THA)    d.   Ken Patrick Arevalo (PHI)      61 62
  Bouhamad Mansour (KUW)         d.   Indika Wettasinghe (SRI)       64 60
  Roman Piftor (UZB)             d.   Son Nguyen (VIE)               63 75
3 Christopher Marquis (IND)      d.   Farhod Saidov (TJK)            36 64 61
S Tito Farulian Hutauruk (INA)   d.   Tyler Leung (HKG)              62 76(5)
  Yuki Bhambri (IND)             d.   Abdulnour Bronou (SYR)         64 63
  Mohammadi Arsalan (IRI)        d.   Evgeniy Jirnov (TKM)           26 62 64
2 Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)           d.   Francis Casey Alcantara (PHI)  62 64

Boys Round 2:

1 Pattrayu Chumpetch (THA)       d.   Nam Lam (VIE)                  61 62
  Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)         d. S Alexander Chen (UZB)           62 62
4 Ryan Cheung (HKG)              d.   Chung-Su Chen (TPE)            64 63
S Mansingh Athare (IND)          d.   Ronak Manuja (IND)             46 64 64
S Pao Wichayaketsophorn (THA)    d.   Bouhamad Mansour (KUW)         64 60
3 Christopher Marquis (IND)      d.   Roman Piftor (UZB)             62 46 63
  Yuki Bhambri (IND)             d. S Tito Farulian Hutauruk (INA)   63 60
2 Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)           d.   Mohammadi Arsalan (IRI)        60 60

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Girls Round 1:

1 Albina Khabibulina (UZB)            BYE
  Aishwariya Srivastava (IND)    d.   Zu Zu (MYA)                    61 62
  Prena Mythri (IND)             d.   Al Nabhani Fatma (OMA)         64 63
6 Beatrice Gumulya (INA)         d.   Nilupul Goonasekera (SRI)      61 64
3 Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA)        BYE
  Yen-Ling Chen (TPE)            d.   Chun Ling Sher (HKG)           61 63
  Neesha Thirumalaichelvam (MAS) d.   Mkahal Ranim (SYR)             61 62
8 Janaki Rao (IND)               d.   Valentina Starkova (KAZ)       63 63
  Geraldine Leong (HKG)          d. 7 Satjaporn Mahajaroenkul (THA)  63 62
  Ainur Sumekenova (KAZ)         d.   Jouayed Line (SYR)             62 06 63
  Karyn Emeralda (INA)           d.   Rashmi Teltumbde (IND)         57 76(1) 75
4 Yun Ku (TPE)                   d.   Jithmi Jayawickrema (SRI)      63 62
5 Shweta Kumari Solanki (IND)    d.   Ting-Fei Juan (TPE)            62 60
  Chellapriya Vythinathan (MAS)  d.   Nicole Tsui (HKG)              62 61
  Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA)  d.   Grace Sari Ysidora (INA)       62 61
2 Alexandra Kolesnichenko (UZB)       BYE

Girls Round 2:

1 Albina Khabibulina (UZB)       d.   Aishwariya Srivastava (IND)    64 63
6 Beatrice Gumulya (INA)         d.   Prerna Mythri (IND)            63 76(8)
3 Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA)   d.   Yen-Ling Chen (TPE)            67(9) 62 61
8 Janaki Rao (IND)               d.   Neesha Thirumalaichelvam (MAS) 63 63
  Geraldine Leong (HKG)          d.   Ainur Sumekenova (KAZ)         61 60
4 Yun Ku (TPE)                   d.   Karyn Emeralda (INA)           64 06 63
5 Shweta Kumari Solanki (IND)    d.   Chellapriya Vythinathan (MAS)  62 63
  Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA)  d. 2 Alexandra Kolesnichenko (UZB)  67(6) 61 75

Yuki and Mansingh are the youngest two players in the boys' draw. Yuki has upset a seed already, but faces a tough guy who has upset the second seed already.

There is also a "back-draw" which is used to position players in 32 slots by the end. They actually make a 32 player ranked list in the end. I am too lazy to type up the back draw results ..

Jay

[jayakris]

Who is this Beatrice Gumulya? Any relation to Sandy Gumulya?

Sounds like Beatrice may be Sandy's sister ..

Jay

[jaydeep]

Christopher also playing well ... But not realy surprise by Christopher and Mansingh peformance ... Yuki is really improved and playing quite well ... In gairls section Janaki and Shweta keep flying Indian flag.

Jaydeep.