Date:19/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/19/stories/2008111957922000.htm

Sport - Tennis

Haenle beats Wagh

MUMBAI: Lucky loser Pirmin Haenle (Germany) grabbed the opportunity to feature in the main draw, quelling the spirited Akash Wagh (India) 6-3, 6-2 for a place in the ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament singles second round at the MSLTA courts on Tuesday.

The results (1st round): singles: Purav Raja (Ind) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran (Ind) 6-1, 6-3; David Savic (Srb) 6-1, 6-3; Pirmin Haenle (Ger) bt Akash Wagh (Ind) 6-3, 6-2; S. Abdukhalikov (Kaz) bt Mithun Murali (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Marc Andre Stratling (Ger) bt Ronak Manuja (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Alexander Satschko (Ger) bt Navdeep Singh (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Vaja Uzakov (Uzb) bt P. Siriluethaiwattana (Tha) 6-3, 7-5; Mario Eckardt (Ger) bt Rifat Biktyakov (Uzb) 7-5, 6-4; Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (Ind) bt Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (Ind) 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-2; Nathan Thompson (US) bt Abhijeet Tiwari (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Divij Sharan (Ind) bt Vishal Punna (Ind) 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(3); Vishnu Vardhan (Ind) bt S. Narayanaswamy (Ind) 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-1; David Sodek (Cze) bt Rohan Gajjar (Ind) 7-6(7), 7-5.