[Tennis] Misc. Results for Indians abroad...

[sameerph]

Sid lost in straight sets in the QF.

At $15K ITF M15, Cancun, Mexico

[QF] Siddhant Banthia (IND,1538) l. (1) Gage Brymer (USA,501) 16 16

[jayakris]

At the $15K Monastir ITF, Tunisia

[Q1] Kaza Vinayak Sarma (IND,1169) d. Tristan Da Lio (FRA, ITF-2454), 76(3) 64
[Q2] Kaza Vinayak Sarma (IND,1169) d. Julien De Cuyper (FRA, ITF-1513), 61 60
[Q3] Kaza Vinayak Sarma (IND,1169) d. Charles Minc (FRA, ITF-2218), 62 63

[R1] (Q) Kaza Vinayak Sarma (IND,1169) l. (3) Nicolas Alvarez Varona (ESP,699), 64 67(4) 16
[R1] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,657) l. Ricardo Maiga (SUI,764), 62 46 16

[R1] Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND)/ Manish Sureshkumar (IND) d. (wc) Neeraj Elangovan (IND)/ Dhakshineswar Suresh (IND), 57 62 [10-5]

Indians are struggling to beat even Indians, even in doubles

[arjun2761]

I guess Siddhant Banthia and Manish Sureshkumar who showed promise when relatively young are having a hard time transitioning to the higher professional levels.

[sameerph]

True, especially Manish. I was expecting to get into at least top 400 by now. But, his ranking ( and maybe his game) has regressed. Hope he gets it back soon. He still has time on his hand.

In the meantime, Terrence Das who is now 18 is playing in his first tournament of the year and pulled of a good win in main draw after making it in as a lucky loser. Arjun lost in first round of the same tournament.

At $15K futures, Vale Do Lobo, Portugal (Hard)

[Q1] Terence Das (IND,1918) d. (4) Filipe Brandao (BRA,1194) 64 64
[Q2] Terence Das (IND,1918) d. Anton Desyatnik (RUS,1332) 63 64
[Q3] Terence Das (IND,1918) l. (10) Juan Pablo Canas Garcia (ESP,1294) 36 46

[R1] (LL) Terence Das (IND,1918) d. Alberto Barroso Campos (ESP,858) 64 75
[R1] (8) Arjun Kadhe (IND,667) l. Arthur Cazaux (FRA,1080) 75 36 46

Next,

[R2] (LL) Terence Das (IND,1918) vs. (5) Sebastian Fanselow (GER,522)

[jayakris]

At $15K futures, Vale Do Lobo, Portugal (Hard)

[R2] (LL) Terence Das (IND,1918) l. (5) Sebastian Fanselow (GER,522), 36 06

But it was still a decent week for Terence.

[sameerph]

Terrence Das had a good run thru qualifying to make main draw this week.

At $15K M15, Loule,Portugal

[Q1] Terence Das (IND,1572) d. Tiago Rodrigo Fernandes (POR,2658) 61 62
[Q2] Terence Das (IND,1572) d. (12) Juan Pablo Canas Garcia (ESP,1302) 62 10 retd.
[Q3] Terence Das (IND,1572) d. (4) Luigi Sorrentino (ITA,1001) 76(6) 62

He gets a seed in first round of main draw too.

[R1] (Q) Terence Das (IND,1572) vs. Evan Furness (FRA,559)

[sameerph]

At $15K M15, Loule,Portugal

[R1] (Q) Terence Das (IND,1572) l. (6) Evan Furness (FRA,559) 16 16

So, no points for getting thru 3 rounds of qualifying.

[Dinesh]

Terence’s first round doubles match at the Portugal $15K is being streamed live on the ITF live scores site. Him and his partner just lost the first set 6-4.

[sameerph]

Terrence lost that doubles match against the top seeds. In singles, he won 2 good qualifying matches before losing in Q3 against a higher ranked Polish player. But he gets in as lucky loser and plays 863rd ranked Joao Monteiro from Portugal in first round today.

[sameerph]

Terrence lost in first round in straight sets. It was his first tournament in a while, hope he does better in subsequent weeks.

[arjun2761]

At this weeks, $15K event in Sharm El Shiek

[R1] (WC) S. Banthia (IND, 1285) d B. Bobrov (RUS, 446) 4-6, 7-6(4), 6-3
[R1] N. Visker (NED, 1355) d. S. Rawat (IND, 453) 6-3, 7-6(4)
[R1] G . Onclin (BEL, 649) d. A. Kadhe (IND, 661) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4

Good surprise win by Banthia who is still 20 years old. Poor result by Rawat and a par performance from Kadhe.

[sameerph]

Banthia lost in the second round tamely after causing that upset.

Banthia,Arjun Kadhe and Siddhart Rawat have been playing on ITF circuit in Egypt here since past 5 weeks. To summariese their results -

Sid Banthia- lost in qualifying in first 4 weeks, got a wild card to main draw this week and lost in second round.
Arjun Kadhe - 3 first round losses and 2 second round losses
Sid Rawat- 3 first round losses and 2 second round losses
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So, overall quite disappointing performances especially by Rawat who was looking to be making the challenger main draws earlier this year.

Only consolation is Arjun winning 2 doubles titles. But, we know that he is much better doubles player.

Next week the tour moves to Cairo on clay. Arjun and Sid Rawat continue there and will be joined by Manish Sureshkumar and Abhinav Sanjeev.

[Dinesh]

Vaidehi Chaudhari is playing in the last ITF tournament of the year in Tunisia and has reached the QF in the singles draw.

At $!5,0000 ITF - Monastir, Tunisia

R1 (8) Vaidehi Chaudhari (WTA-1152) 6-1 6-4 Freyel Ben Hassen (TUN,ITF-1992)
R2 (8) Vaidehi Chaudhari (WTA-1152) 7-6 6-2 Katarina Kozarov (SRB,WTA-1219)
QF (8) Vaidehi Chaudhari (WTA-1152) versus (1) Anna Siskova (CZE, WTA-546)

Great result, so far, for Vaidehi who has been out of the circuit since the W25 Jodhpur event in Feb 2020.

[sameerph]

Finally posting in this thread after a long time as this week Rishab Agarwal qualfied into Spain M15 and upset the second seed in first round of main draw.

At ITF M15, Vallodreiz, Spain (Clay)

[Q1] Rishab Agarwal (IND,945) d. Sandro Szic (POL,NR) 62 60
[Q2] Rishab Agarwal (IND,945) d. (14) Benjamin Winter Lopez (ESP,709) 61 57 10-8
[Q3] Rishab Agarwal (IND,945) d. Antonio Cayetano March (ECU,764) 57 64 12-10

[R1] (Q) Rishab Agarwal (IND,945) d. (2) Oriol Roca Batalla (ESP,362) 75 26 76(5)

Excellent upset win over a top 400 player.

Next,

[R2] (Q) Rishab Agarwal (IND,945) vs. Louis Dussin (FRA,851)

[arjun2761]

Nice win by Rishab! Hope he can consolidate with a few more wins to make it count on points.