Yuki, Prakash in second round of Chennai Open qualifiers
January 2nd, 2010 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Chennai, Jan 2 (IANS) Indias top junior Yuki Bhambri, the 17-year old from Delhi, along with Prakash Amritraj, advanced to the second round of the qualifying competition at the $400,000 Aircel Chennai Open tennis tournament here Saturday.
Bhambri, though nowhere near his best, still carried enough ammunition to beat compatriot Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan 7-5, 6-4, while 26-year old Amritraj ousted Vishnu Vardhan 7-5, 6-3.
The results (qualifying tournament):
First round: Prakash Amritraj (India) bt Vishnu Vardhan (India) 7-5, 6-3; Yuki Bhambri (India) bt Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (India) 7-5, 6-4; Dustin Brown (Jamaica) bt Todd Widom (US) 6-4, 6-3; Marel Ilhan (Turkey) bt Sanam Singh (India) 7-5, 3-6, 6-2; James Ward (Britain) bt Karan Rastogi (India) 6-2, 6-4; Ilya Marchenko (Ukraine) bt Denis Gremelmayr (Germany) 6-4, 6-2; Peter Polansky (Canada) bt Rohan Gajjar (India) 6-3, 7-6 (8); Lars Poerschke (Germany) bt Paul Capdeville (Chile) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Riccardo Ghedin (Italy) bt Matthias Bachinger (Germany) 6-2, 4-2 (retd); Noam Okun (Israel) bt Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (India) 6-2, 6-3; Louk Sorensen (Ireland) bt Benjamin Balleret (Montcourt) 6-0, 2-6, 6-2; Rik de Voest (South Africa) bt George Bastl (Switzerland) 6-2, 7-5; Jan Minra (Czech Republic) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (India) 6-4, 6-2; Tatsuma Ito (Japan) bt Alex Bogomolov Jr (US) 7-6 (1), 6-3; Donald Young (US) bt Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi (Pakistan) 6-4, 6-4; Tsung-Hua Yang (Taipei) 6-7, 7-6, 6-4.
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