
PUNE, Nov 3: Ten Indians, including Prahlad Srinath, Syed Fazaluddin, the Kirtane cousinsSandeep and Nitin and Vishal Uppal have made it to the ITF Satellite tennis circuit Masters to be held at Mumbai from November 8-12.
American Tom Chicoine, ranked 500 in world, tops the list of 21 qualifiers with 25 circuit points the circuit points are calculated on the basis of their performance first two legs, followed by Radim Zitko Czeh Rep. and Thomas Messmer of Germany.
Meanwhile, National hard court champion Sunil Kumar alongwith Vasudeva Reddy, Mustafa Ghouse, K Shivshankar and Niko Karagiannis of Greece will have to go through the play-off8217;s to qualify for the Masters, as all of them have five circuit points. The play-off8217;s will be held in Pune, on Nov 5.
Those Qualified: Tom Chicoine USA, 500, Radim Zitko Cze, 464, Thomas Messmer Ger, 949, Prahlad Srinath Ind, 312, Per Thornadtsson Swe, 495, Sandeep Kirtane Ind, 782, Kunj Majmudar USA, 1232, Andrei Youzhny Rus, 1069, Mathais Bergman-Kempe Swe, 1300, Rohan Bopanna Ind, 1221, Mlynarik Zbynek Aut, 768, Manoj Mahadevan Ind, 1300, Vinod Shridhar Ind, 693, Akshay Vishal Rao Ind, Syed Fazaluddin Ind, 418, Josef Nesticky Cze, Vijay Kannan Ind, 826, Balazs Veress Hun, 848, Van Wyk Coenie SA, Nitin Kirtane Ind, 828, Vishal Uppal Ind. For play-off: Niko Karagiannis Gre, 969, Sunil Kumar Ind, Vasudeva Reddy Ind, Saurav Panja Ind, 874, Shivshankar Kambargimath Ind, Mustafa Ghouse Ind.