Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Tennis News
At $3.645M Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, Florida, USA

[Q2] (19) Sania Mirza (IND,99) bt (8) Reneta Voracova (CZE,89) 64 62

[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,99) vs Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP,62)

Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs (5) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zgeng (CHN)

Sania started slowly and lost her serve in first game ... After wasting few chances in second game Sania broke Reneta in fourth game to make it 2-all ... Then crucial break came in 10th game when Reneta was serving for the stay in the set ... Sania comfortably broke her @15 to won first set ... After losing her serve in first game Sania was holding her serve easily and same trend was continue in second set ... Sania broke Reneta in fourth game to take 3-1 lead and when Reneta was serving for staying in the match at 5-2 then again Sania broke her @30 to complete easy victory.

In this match Sania struggled with her first serve percentage, 45%, but won 77% points and also won 67% on her second serve ... Faced only break point which was in first game of the match ... Good to see she is winning so many points on her serves.

Winnable first round match against Spanish girl Arantxa Parra Santonja if she in not tired after playing non-stop tennis last 15 days ... Tough doubles round as first match against 5th seed Chan and Zgeng.

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At $15K India F2 Futures, Kolkata

Singles Second Round
(WC) Chandril SOOD (IND) l (1) Adam KELLNER (HUN) 16 06
(6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 61 64
(Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt (Q) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 76(2) 62
(7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 76(6) 76(2)

Vijayant MALIK (IND) l (5) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) 67(7) 36
Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) bt (LL) Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 62 61
(8) Nicolas REISSIG (AUT) bt (Q) Maximilian NEUCHRIST (AUT) 75 64
Rupesh ROY (IND) l Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER) 36 76(4) 36

Doubles Quarter Finals
PRASHANTH (IND)/ ROY (IND) bt MARQUIS (IND)/ SIPAEYA (IND) 62 63
(3) NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt NEUCHRIST (AUT)/ WEISSBORN (AUT) 62 63
(4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) KRISHNA (IND)/ SUKUL (IND) 62 61
(2) SHARAN (IND) / VARDHAN (IND) bt MALIK (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) 62 60

Good to see Kaza Vinayak continued showing consistency upsetting senior Vignesh ... But anther disappointing loss of Rupesh against German Jaan-Frederik Brunken.

In doubles semis all Indian pairs.

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