Junior Circuits Abroad for Indian Kids...

[sameerph]

At Thailand grade 1 :-

Singles :-
PQF:-

6-CHERNOV Artur RUS d. 9-ROY Rupesh IND 6-2,7-5
4-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan IND d. 13-KOSLER Jiri CZE 6-7(4),6-0,6-3

4-JONES Sacha NZL d. 16-NAGARAJ Sandhya IND 6-0,6-2

So, only Jeevan remains in singles.

Doubles:-
Boys

First round

1-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan/SINGH Sanam IND vs Bye
2-LEMKE James/ROY Rupesh AUS/IND vs Bye

Second round
1-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan/SINGH Sanam IND d. COX Bradley/HOCHWALT Tyler USA 6-4,6-4
2-LEMKE James/ROY Rupesh AUS/IND d. SIRILUETHAIWATTANA Perakiat /YANG Tsung-Hua THA/TPE 6-3,7-6(3)

QF
1-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan/SINGH Sanam IND d. 8-BELLAMY Ryan/JONES Greg AUS 6-1,6-2
LINDNER Joel/SMITH John Patrick AUS d. 2-LEMKE James/ROY Rupesh AUS/IND 7-5,4-6,6-1

Girls:-
First round
4-DY Denise/NAGARAJ Sandhya PHI/IND vs Bye

Second round
4-DY Denise/NAGARAJ Sandhya PHI/IND d. VOGELE Stefanie/VOGT Stephanie SUI/LIE 6-2,4-6,6-3

QF
4-DY Denise/NAGARAJ Sandhya PHI/IND d. 5-LI Veronica Ruo-Qi/LITVAK Lena USA 6-3,6-1

So, Jeevan, Sanam & Sandhya are in doubles semi finals.

[sameerph]

At Thailand grade 1 :-
Boys :-

Singles :-
[QF] 4- NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan IND d. 8- AIDIL Faisal INA 3-6,7-6(1),6-4

Doubles:-
[SF] 1-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan/SINGH Sanam IND d. BAI Yan / XU Jun-Chao CHN 6-3,3-6,7-6(3)

Girls :-
Doubles
[SF] 2-CALDERWOOD Tyra/MOORE Jessica AUS d. 4-DY Denise/NAGARAJ Sandhya PHI/IND 6-4,6-3

So, Jeevan in singles semis & Jeevan -Sanam are in doubles finals.

Singles :- [SF] 4- NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan IND vs 11-LAJOLA Dennis USA
Doubles :- [F] 1-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN Jeevan/SINGH Sanam IND vs LINDNER Joel/SMITH John Patrick AUS

[jayakris]

Now, what is up with Rupesh lately?? .. Sanam must be bothered by something - hope not another bout of injury or illness like he has had many times in his junior creer. Jeevan seems to have come back to life though. Two good wins.

Jay

[jaydeep]

Yes Rupesh looks stagnant around same ranking for long time ... Lets hope soon he took required actions to remove flaws from his game.

Sanam must had one of bad match ... With his doubles performance he will be back on track from next tournament ... Nice to see Jeevan's performance ... Go Jeevan.

Jaydeep.

[arjun2761]

Jeevan loses SF to Dennis Lajola by 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. However, Jeevan and Sanam fight their way into the doubles final with a three set win.

[sameerph]

Jeevan-Sanam won the doubles title winning the final 6-4, 6-2.

So, reasonably good week for Jeevan. They 3 more weeks in East Asian circuit ending with Asian junior champioships. Hope Jeevan conities his good work & Sanam/ Rupesh do better in singles.

[PKBasu]

Sorry I missed the fact that these kids were in my neck of the woods.

Sanam's sudden slump is worrying, and probably has something to do with health issues. Good to see Jeevan coming good.

[Kumar]

Compared to Jeevan's performance at the beginning of the year, this may be little better.. But he is still losing to players ranked below him, which is not good..

[jayakris]

At the Mitsubishi Lancer Manila grade-1,

[R1] Sumit Prakash Gupta (IND,112) l. Ryan Bellamy (AUS,90) 67(7) 36
Th others had BYEs in the R1.
[R2] (1) Sanam K Singh vs Agung-Bagus Dewontoro (INA,160)
[R2] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,17) vs Peraklat Siriluethaiwattana (THA,105)
[R2] (10) Rupesh Roy (IND,57) vs Joel Lindner (AUS,100)
[R2] (12) Sandhya Nagaraj (IND,95) vs Chang Liu (CHN,226)

Jeevan moved up to a career-high 17 ranking this week, with the extra points from the SF run last week at Bangkok.

Jay

[jayakris]

Sanam Singh of won 62 67(6) 60 win over Agung Dewantoro of Indonesia, to reach the third round against No. 15 Rasmus Moller of Denmark, according to a Manila newspaper.

Peraklat Siriluethaiwattana and Joel Linder have won according to newspapers - so I think Rupesh and Jeevan went down in the R2. Yeek!

Jay

[sameerph]

Rupesh lost but Jeevan won.

2nd round :-

1-SINGH SANAM IND d. DEWANTORO AGUNG INA 6-2,6-7(6),6-0
4-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN JEEVAN IND d. SIRILUETHAIWATTANA PERAKIAT THA 6-7(5),7-6(4),6-3
LINDNER JOEL AUS d. 10-ROY RUPESH IND 6-4,6-3

PQF :-
1-SINGH SANAM IND V. RASMUS MOLEER DEN 6-1, 6-3
4-NEDUNCHEZHIYAN JEEVAN IND d. JIRI KOSLER CZECK ( Scores not known )

So, Jeevan & Sanam are both in quarter finals

[sanjay5goel]

Nice to see a good run in a Grade I tourney by Jeevan and Sanam. It has been a while though.
Does anyone know why Sanam's recent performances have gone down after winning the Futures in India few months ago?

Sanjay

[jayakris]

I am suspecting that Sanam is/was down with some health issue. He has had some nagging injuries or illnesses, off and on during his junior career. Perhaps something is/was bugging him the last few weeks.

Good to see that the Manila newspaper was wrong and Jeevan did win the R2. Tough comeback from the brink, it seems.

Jay

[jayakris]

According to Manila Times (Friday edition)

[R3] (8) Stefanie Voegele (SUI) d. (12) Sandhya Nagaraj (IND), 6-3, 6-4.
[R3] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,5) d. (15) Rasmus Moller (DEN,73), 6-1, 6-3
[R3] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,17) d. (16) Jiri Kosler (CZE,71), score not known.

So Jeevan and Sanam are in the QFs now.

Jay

[jaydeep]

Nice to see Sanam and Jeevan continue with their good performance in Manila ... Rupesh's form is worrying .. Hopefully sooner than later he will took some decisive action about missing aspects from his game.