ICEDALE OPEN

The second ICEDALE OPEN Doubles Tennis Tournament was held on the 31st Jan and 1st Feb 2009 at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis Courts.
This year Women's Doubles was introduced.
For results, photographs and details of this tournament, click on the link below
http://icedaleopen.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=2

Mukund Joshi

RAJABHAU RANADE FINAL DAY

Results of the Finals are as under
Category : 45+ Singles

Finals
1. R Nagraj Bt. Himanshu Gosavi 6-2,6-2


Category : 55+ Singles
Finals
1. Laxman Randhir Bt. Ajit Bhandarkar 6-4,6-2


Category : 55+ Doubles
Finals
1. KPS Chauhan/Laxman Randhir Bt. Prakash Malhotra/Khushru Shroff 6-4,7-5

Category : 65+ Singles
Finals
1. Madhukar Rana (NEP) Bt. HD Ballal 6-0,6-0

The prize distribution took place at the hands of Smt. Pushpalata Ranade, immediately after the tournament, in presence of Mr. Nitin Joshi, Organising Secretary and Ms. Leena Nageshkar, ITF Supervisor.
- Mukund Joshi

RAJABHAU RANADE DAY 4

Category : 45+ Singles

Semi Finals
1. R Nagraj Bt. Achim Gass 3-6,6-2,6-3
2. Himanshu Gosavi Bt. Sharad Tak 6-3,6-2

Category : 45+ Doubles
Finals
1. Himanshu Gosavi/R Nagraj Bt. Rakesh Kohli/Sharad Tak 6-1,6-2


Category : 55+ Singles
Semi Finals
1. LAxman Randhir Bt. CR Gangadharan 6-3,6-4
2. Ajit Bhandarkar Bt. KPS Chauhan 6-2,6-4

Category : 55+ Doubles
Semi Finals
1. KPS Chauhan/Laxman Randhir Bt. Shyam Dalvi/Pradeep Kunchur 6-2,6-3
2. Prakash Malhotra/Khushru Shroff Bt. Cr Gangadharan/SD Gurjar 4-6,6-2,7-6(4)


Category : 65+ Singles
Semi-finals
1. Madhukar Rana (NEP) Bt. Dilip Parulkar 2-, (con)
2. HD Ballal Bt. Ashok Muley 6-4,6-1

Category : 65+ Doubles
Semi Finals
1. HD Ballal/GK Sangameshwa Bt. Arun Date / Ashok Mulye 6-0,6-0
2. Dilip Parulkar/V Nani Rao Bt. P Ramakrishnan/BL Somayazulu 6-1,7-5
Finals
1. HD Ballal/GK Sangameshwa Bt. Dilip Parulkar/V Nani Rao 6-4,6-2

RAJABHAU RANADE TENNIS TOURNAMENT

RAJABHAU RANANDE MEMORIAL ITF VETERANS TENNIS TOURNAMENT 2008

Results at the end of day 3

Category : 45+ Singles
Pre-quarterfinals
1. Achim Gas (Germany) Bt. Shyam Mehendale 6-3, 6-1
2. Uttam Mane Bt. RAju Mulay 6-1,6-1
3. R Nagraj Bt. Deonam Lama 6-2,6-2
4. Rohinton Irani Bt. Bhupendir Oberoi 6-3,6-1
5. Himanshu Gosavi Bt. Kuber Chaure 6-2,6-4
6. Rakesh Kohli Bt. Ajit Sancheti 6-0,6-0
7. Prashant Gosavi Bt. PK Mahapatra 6-1,6-1
8. Sharad Tak Bt. Rajeev Page 6-0,6-1
Quarterfinals
1. Achim Gas (Germany) Bt. Uttam Mane 6-2, 6-0
2. R Nagraj Bt. Rohinton Irani 6-1,6-1
3. Himanshu Gosavi Bt. RAkesh kohli 6-0,6-1
4. Sharad Tak Bt. Prashant Gosavi 4-6,7-6(0),6-2

Category : 45+ Doubles
Semi Finals
1. Rakesh Kohli / Sharad Tak Bt. Uttam Mane/Mahesh Rungta 6-4,6-3
2. Himanshu Gosavi/R Nagraj Bt. Kiran Bhandari/Sharad Kalyani 6-1,6-1

Category : 55+ Singles
Pre-quarterfinals
1. CR Gangadharan Bt. A Dayanand 6-1, 6-1
2. Vivek Bhapkar Bt. SP Dalvi 6-3,7-5
3. Laxman Randhir Bt. Ravindra Natu 2-0 conceded
4. Prakash Malhotra Bt. DB Sumant 6-3,6-3
5. Vijay Dixit Bt. Baba Rodriques 2-4 conceded
6. Ajit Bhandarkar Bt. Arvind kaimal 4-6,6-4,6-3
7. KPS Chauhan Bt. Hansraj Patil 6-0,6-3
8. PR Raju Bt. PR Kulthe 6-0,6-1
Quarterfinals
1. CR Gangadharan Bt. Vivek Bhapkar 6-2,6-2
2. Laxman Randhir Bt. Prakash Malhotra 6-4,7-5
3. Ajit Bhandarkar Bt. Vijay Dixit 6-1,6-1
4. KPS Chauhan Bt. PR Raju 2-6,7-5,7-5

Category : 55+ Doubles
Quarter Finals
1. CR Gangadharan/SD Gurjar Bt. Vijay dixit/Bhagyashri Ranade 6-1,6-3
2. KPS Chauhan/Laxman Randhir Bt. Satish Bapat/Suhas Bhopatkar 6-4,6-0
3. Shyam Dalvi/Pradeep Kunchur Bt. Ajit Bhandarkar/Vijay Ogale 3-6,6-2,6-4


Category : 65+ Singles
Pre-quarterfinals
1. Purshotam Kshirsagar Bt. Arun Date 3-6,6-4,7-6(9)
2. B Somayajulu Bt. Krishna Babu 6-4,6-2
3. Dilip Parulkar Bt. Dinkar rao Desai 6-4,6-3
4. HD Ballal Bt. Shriram Deshmukh 6-0,6-0
5. V Nani Rao Bt. Suresh Gokhale 6-4,6-2
6. Ashok Mulye Bt. Avinash Namjoshi W/o
7. Sailendra Gosavi Bt. P R Rao 7-5,5-7,6-1
Quarter-finals
1. Madhukar Rana (NEP) Bt. P Kshirsagar 6-0,6-1
2. Dilip Parulkar Bt. B Somayajulu 7-6(6),6-2
3. HD Ballal Bt. V Nani Rao 6-2,6-3
4. Ashok Muley Bt. Sailendra Gosavi 6-2,6-2

Category : 65+ Doubles
Quarterfinals
1. Arun Date/Ashok Mulye Bt. Suresh Gokhale/Madhukar Rana 6-4,7-5
2. HD Ballal/GK Sangameshwa Bt. IV Krishnababu/P Kshirsagar 6-1,6-2
3. P Ramakrishnan / BL Somayazulu Bt. Joe Umrani/Sriram Deshmukh 6-0,6-1
4. Dilip Parulkar/V Nani Rao Bt. Yashwant Baokar / Arun Wakankar 6-1,6-3

NECC ITF 2008 FINALS

China's Jing Jing Lu lifts $25,000 NECC-ITF Women's Tennis Championships

Pune, November 15 : Eighth seeded Jing Jing Lu of China outplayed top seeded Melanie South of Britain in straight sets to lift the $25,000 NECC- ITF women's tennis Championships sponsored by the National Egg Coordination committee (NECC) being organized by the Deccan Gymkhana and being played on their courts here.

In the finals played today the 19 year old and 245th ranked Chinese Jing Jing Lu played solid all round tennis to outplay the strongly built and world ranked 116th British player Melanie South 6-3, 6-1 in a match lasting 1hr and 10 mins.

A top 10 Chinese player Jing Jing Lu won her maiden title winning 25 WTA points and top prize of $2940 (Rs.1,44,000) for her effort .

Jing Jing Lu looked more confident of the two players from the word go in the very first game she came from being 15-40 down on her serve to win the game , both players traded serve in the 5th and 6th games to level scores to 3-3 , Lu broke the tall and hard serving south in the eighth game to go up 5-3, she then held her serve in the 9th game to win the first set 6-3.

In the second set Lu broke South in the very first game and again in the 3rd game to race to a 4-0 lead, but South managed to hold her serve in the 5th game. Lu played in the zone timing the ball sweetly and moving South all over the court, Luck also seemed to be in favour Lu as she got five net chords which disturbed South even more.

Lu held her serve to go up 5-1 and then break Melanie South again in the 7th game to record a fantastic victory watched by a huge turnout.

"I'm very happy to win here and it's my first ITF victory in two years", said the 19 year Lu. "This win has given me tremendous confidence and I hope to do well in the coming year and hope to get into the top 200 bracket by end of the next year.

"I'm disappointed that I lost, but Lu played amazing tennis , and chased every ball and came out with unbelievable winners , said South. South received 17 points and prize money of $1666 (Rs 80,000) for her effort.

The prizes were given away at the hands of Chess Women's Grand Master Soumya Swaminathan . Tournament Director Anand Tulpule welcomed the guests, while organizing secretary Nitin Joshi proposed the vote of thanks.

Following are the results. (Finals)

S.8 Jing Jing Lu (Chn) bt S.1 Melanie South (Gbr) 6-3,6-1

For more pictures from the finals click on the link below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24086292@N05/sets/72157609117675423/

NECC ITF 2008 Day 5

Europe's South to take on Asia's Lu in finals of $25,000 NECC-ITF
Women's Tennis
Chang-Hwang Lift doubles title

Pune, November 14: Top seeded Melanie South will take on eighth seeded Jing Jing Lu of China in the finals of the $25,000 NECC- ITF women's tennis Championships sponsored by the National Egg Coordination committee (NECC) being organized by the Deccan Gymkhana
and being played on their courts here. In the semifinals played today the strongly built world ranked 116th British put out fourth seeded Ksenia Plakina of Krgystan 6-4, 6-4 in 1
hr 13 mins , while the 245th ranked Chinese Lu Jing Jing stopped the winning run of Serbian qualifier Bojana Jovanovski 7-5,6-3 in a 1 hr 27 minute battle .

The second seeded Chinese Taipei pair of Kai-Chen Chang / I Hsuan Hwang scraped past the pair of Romanian Elora Dabija and Serbian Bojana Jovanovski 5-7, 6-2, 10-7 to lift the doubles crown.

The strongly built British player South who expects to be in the top 100 in the world by the year end dominated the game from the start and broke Palkina in the 4th game in the first set and then served well to take the set 6-4

In the second set such was South's domination that she broke Palkina in the 2nd game, she also won the 1st and 3rd games on love to race to a 3-0 lead. Palkina tried to claw her way back into the match but South didn't give her many opportunities.

South who lost her serve in the 9th game to give Plakina a ray of hope of leveling the game scores , but in the 10th two brilliant forehand down the line winners saw South break Palkina immediately in the 10th game and wrap up the match."I didn't play my game today , said a
dejected Palkina , who won two $25,000 events this year.

The Serbian qualifier Bojana Jovaovaski who impressed a huge turnout over the week was stopped by eighth seeded Jing Jing Lu of China. Jing Lu who timed the ball fluently through the week broke Bojana in the 12th game of the first set to take the set 7-5 in a 40 minute tussle.

In the second set Lu got a decisive break against Bojana in the 6th game to win the set 6-3 and make it to the third $25,000 event final.

In a well contested doubles event second seeded Chinese Taipei pair of Kai-Chen Chang / I Hsuan Hwang scraped past the pair of Romanian Elora Dabija and Serbian Bojana Jovanovski 5-7,6-2,10-7 for the crown, the winner got 25WTA points and $1176 for their efforts, while the
runners-up got 19 WTA points and $686 for their efforts.

The tournament director Anand Tulpule and Organizing Secretary Nitin Joshi gave away the prizes

Following are the results.

(Semi finals)

S.1 Melanie South (Gbr) bt S.4. Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) 6-4,6-4
S.8 Jing Jing Lu (Chn) bt Bojana Jovanosvski (Srb) 7-5,6-3

Doubles (Finals)

Kai-Chen Chang/ I Hsuan Hwang (Tpe) bt Elora Dabija(Rou) /Bojana Jovanovski (Srb)
5-7,6-2,10-7

For more pictures from day 5 click on this link http://www.flickr.com/photos/24086292@N05/sets/72157609105791950/

Mukund Joshi

NECC ITF 2008 Day 4

South Stops Sahoo, to enter semis of $25,000 NECC-ITF Women's Tennis

Pune, November 13: Top seeded Melanie South Qualifier stopped the winning run of the lone Indian player Shalini Sahoo to enter the semifinal , of the $25,000 NECC- ITF women's tennis Championships sponsored by the National Egg Coordination committee (NECC) being organized by the Deccan Gymkhana and being played on their courts here.

In the quarterfinals played today the strongly built world ranked 116th British player South easily outplayed Sahoo 6-2, 6-2 in a 1hr 1min match. South will now take on fourth seeded Ksenia Palkina of Kyrgyzstan.

Palkina ranked 220th easily accounted for sixth seeded Kai-Chen Chang of Taipei 6-3, 6-4. Qualifier Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia continued with a fabulous run in the event outwitting I Hsuan Hwang of Taipei 6-2, 6-2 to make it to the last four from the bottom half.

Bojana will take on eighth seeded Jing Jing Lu of China. Jing Lu had an easy outing as second seeded 192 ranked Ye-Ra Lee of Korea conceded her match due to fever after being down 5-2 in the first set.

Sahoo who evolved a lot of interest with her performance, started well winning 2 games in a row, but South played solidly to outplay Sahoo to win six games in row to win the set 6-2. In the second set Sahoo was broken in the 1st and 3rd games to let South walk off with the match.
"I tried to play my best, but was beaten by the speed and pace of South", Sahoo admitted after the match. It was the first time I was playing a high ranked player and it was truly a great experience for me " I've got a feel of what top class tennis is , said the qualifier .

"I owe my performance to my father B.C Sahoo who has supported me all along and want to continue my form in future, she said. Shalini however had the consolation of getting 8 WTA points and $686 (Rs. 25,000) for her effort.

Melanie South praised Sahoo's effort, saying she played well, but probably overwhelmed with the occasion. I'm playing well said South who plays at the British National Training centre at Roehampton.
"I'm looking at taking a title here, which will be the third of the year, she said.
Elora Dabija(Rou) /Bojana Jovanovski (Srb) will take on the Chinese Taipei pair of Kai-Chen Chang/ I Hsuan Hwang in the doubles finals.

In the doubles semi- final the pair Dabija and Jovanovski scraped past the pair of Julia Parasyuk(Rus) and Korina Perkovic(Ger) 3-6,6-1,10-4 , while the Chinese Taipei pair of Chang and Hwang (Tpe) defeated Jade Curtis / Emily Webley Smith of Great Britain 6-4,6-2



Following are the results. (Quarter finals)
S.1 Melanie South (Gbr) bt Shalini Sahoo(Ind) 6-2,6-2
S.4. Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) bt S.6 Kai-Chen Chang (Tpe) 6-3, 6-4
Bojana Jovanosvski (Srb) bt I-Hsuan Hwang (Tpe) 6-2, 6-2
S.8 Jing Jing Lu (Chn) bt S.2 Ye Ra Lee (Kor) 5-2(retd)

Doubles (Semifinals)
Elora Dabija(Rou) / Bojana Jovanovski (Srb) bt
Julia Parasyuk(Rus) / Korina Perkovic(Ger) 3-6,6-1,10-4

Kai-Chen Chang/ I Hsuan Hwang (Tpe) bt
Jade Curtis / Emily Webley Smith (Gbr) 6-4, 6-2