ITF Futures

Marquis in Main Draw of $15000 Deccan Gymkhana –AITA ITF Futures

Pune, October 4: Christopher Marquis outplayed Chinese Taipei’s I–Ta- Chen 3-6, 6-3,6-2 to make it to the main draw of the $15000Deccan Gymkhana-AITA Men’s ITF Tennis Futures which will beorganized by the Deccan Gymkhana Club at their tennis courts

In the final rounds played today five other Indians AbhijeetTiwari ,Kaza Vinayak Sharma ,Kamala Kannan , Elwin Anthony also madeit to the main draw , Chinese Taipei ‘s Chin Yu Huang and Cheng PengHsieh (Tpe) made it to the Main draw

It was announced that Davis Cupper and Young Indian tennis Star YukiBhambri pulled out of the event due to a lower back injury. Bhambrihad won 5 ITF Futures in row and his last win was at Kolkatta lastweek. His withdrawal was sent to the ITF Supervisor Sheetal Iyer.I-Ta- Chen of Taipei who lost to Marquis will take his place in themain draw as the lucky looser

The tournament Director Nitin Joshi today announced the wild cards forthe event, Former Davis Cupper Karan Rastogi returning from Bogginginjuries, along with Mithun Murali, and local lads Akash Wagh andSumit Shinde have been awarded Wild cards in the Main draw in thesingles.

Local pair of Sumit Shinde/ Mansingh Athare, Delhi’s Sood BrothersLakshit and Chandril, along with Shahbaaz Khan – Raghuraman Kumar havebeen awarded the doubles wild card for the event.

Following are the results (Final Round Qualifying)
Abhijeet Tiwari bt Shantanu Rajput 6-3,6-3
Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Vijay Kannan
Chin Yu Huang (Tpe) bt Chung Su Chen (Tpe) 6-1,6-0
Kamala Kannan bt Aditya Madkekar 6-7(6),6-3,6-3
Cheng Peng Hsieh (Tpe) bt Siddarh Rawat 6-2,6-3
Christopher Marquis bt I –Ta- Chen (Tpe ) 3-6,6-3,6-2
Elwin Anthony bt Ram Kumar Ramnathan 6-2, 7-5
Vinod Shridhar bt Saurav Sukul 6-1, 6-1

Following are the Seedings (Singles): 1. Daniel King Turner (Nzl) 3172. Alexander Satschko (Ger)323 3. Vishnu Vardhan (Ind)379, 4.Young JunKim (Kor)383 5.Ranjeet Virali Ganeshan (Ind) 539 6.Rohan Gajjar (Ind)558 7. Divij Sharan (Ind) 565 8. Rupesh Roy (Ind ) 658

Doubles: 1. Rohan Gajjar/ Purav Raja 2. Divij Sharan /Vishnu Vardhan3. Rupesh Roy/ Vivek Shokeen 4. Chen I Ta/ P. C Vignesh

Mukund Joshi