Nam loses in doubles, to focus on singles

May 31, 2017 - 09:00

3 seed pair of Lý Hoàng Nam of Việt Nam and Yu Cheng-yu of Chinese Taipei was ousted from the Singapore F2 Men’s Futures tennis tournament yesterday.

Lý Hoàng Nam and his partner lose at the first round of the Singapore F2 Men’s Futures on May 30. — File Photo
Viet Nam News

HÀ NỘI — The No 3 seed pair of Lý Hoàng Nam of Việt Nam and Yu Cheng-yu of Chinese Taipei was ousted from the Singapore F2 Men’s Futures tennis tournament yesterday.
They were defeated 6-2, 4-6, 8-10 by wildcard receiver Sherwin Foo and Roy Hobbs of Singapore in an 85-minute match in the first-round match of the doubles category.

Nam will now focus on the singles. As No 7 seed, he will play Sho Katayama of Japan in the first match.

In other matches yesterday, Yu beat Dalwinder Singh of India 6-3, 6-1; Hobbs was beaten 1-6, 2-6 by No 5 seed Vijay Sundar Prashanh of India.

Title favourite Ramkumar Ramanathan from India won 6-1, 6-0 over Shaheed Alam of Singapore.

The F2 tournament which ends on Sunday at the Kallang Tennis Centre is offering US$15,000 to leading players. — VNS

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