Thursday, February 03, 2011

Tennis News
At $442.5K SA Tennis Open, Johannesburg

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ David Martin (USA) l Karol Beck (SVK)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) 76(1) 36 10-12

Buji and Martin lost doubles quarter-final in very close super tie-break ... They started well after winning first set in tie-break but lost second set due to service break before losing STB.
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At Asia/Oceania Group I, Thailand

Group A

India l Uzbekistan 1-2

Poojashree VENKATESHA l Sabina SHARIPOVA 16 26
Sania MIRZA bt Nigina ABDURAIMOVA 64 61
Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI/ Sania MIRZA l Nigina ABDURAIMOVA/ Albina KHABIBULINA 62 36 36

Yesterday's loss against China is going to haunt us remaining Fed cup matches ... Today after usual Poojashree's loss Sania came out and won her match ... But unfit Sania again failed trouble in doubles to loss with Rushmi after winning the first set.
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At $15K Cambodia F2 Futures, Phnom Penh

[QF] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) bt (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,525) 75 63
[QF] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) bt (Q) Perakiat Siriluethaaiwattana (THA,1175) 76(6) 63
[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) bt Ervand Gasparyan (RUS,867) 63 63

[SF] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) vs (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545)
[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) vs Arata Onozawa (JPN,602)

Doubles
[SF] (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) bt (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) 64 62
[SF] PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND) l (3) HUANG (TPE)/ LEE (TPE) 76(4) 67(5) 3-10

[F] (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) vs (3) HUANG (TPE)/ LEE (TPE)

Our 3 players in semis ... Very good results for players like Vijay Sundar and Ranjeet to achieve that outside India ... Big push for them to making inside top-500 ... Karan showed his class beating Yuki is straight sets to stamp his authority over him and moving towards top-300 ranking.

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