Tennis News
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,
[PQF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) l (1) Rafel Nadal (ESP,1) 57 46
Doubles
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Novak Djokovic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) 61 76(5)
[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)/ Xavier Malisse (BEL)
[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/ Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
Watched match and my impression is Sommy played a great match ... His serve was deceptive and except last game of both sets Rafa was struggling to read it ... He was mixing speed and placing of the serve smartly which troubled Rafa ... It was definitely looking that Sommy and his team worked out strategy for Rafa ... He frustrated Rafa with soft balls (reducing pace on the shot), Rafa made unforced errors due to going for extra ... He was matching Rafa's athleticism from back of the court but standing lot back of the court gave him trouble to retrieving drop shots ... I think in this match Sommy used controlled aggression may be that was his team's strategy ... Unfortunately got broken at love in both sets to when he was serving to stay in the set/match ... Feeling proud to watch this match and after the match Sommy received standing ovation from center court crowd.
Rohan and Aisam r in their first Masters semi-final with good win over Serbian pair ... They dominated first set to win it comfortably without facing a single break point and breaking Serbian twice ... In second set our pair faced 4 break points and saved all to take set in tie-break ... They kept their nerves to won set and match ... In semis they r facing another unseeded pair Dolgopolov and Malisse, who upset top-seed Bryans in second round and Murrays in quarter-final.
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At $15K India F1 Futures, Mumbai
Singles Second Round
(1) Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt Nicolas REISSING (AUT) 61 62
(6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Rupesh ROY (IND) 63 64
(Q) Ashutosh SINGH (IND) l Gero KRETSCHMER (GER) 75 46 0-3 RETD
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (Q) Divij SHARAN (IND) 64 64
(PR) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) l (7) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) 16 57
(3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt James FEAVER (GBR) 63 64
(WC) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) l Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 76(5) 46 06
(2) Adam KELLNER (HUN) bt Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER) 36 61 63
Doubles Quarter Finals
MARQUIS (IND)/ WAGH (IND) l (1) KRETSCHMER (GER)/ SATSCHKO (GER) 36 46
(4) RASTOGI (IND)/ SINGH (IND) l NEUCHRIST (AUT)/ WEISSBORN (AUT) 67(4) 62 7-10
BHAMBRI (IND)/ GAJJAR (IND) bt SHOKEEN (IND)/ SIPAEYA (IND) 60 63
(2) RAJA (IND)/ SHARAN (IND) bt (WC) KADHE (IND)/ KRISHNA (IND) 64 61
Expected results for Indians ... Like straight sets victory by Yuki over Rupesh ... Ashutosh and Srirambalaji produced fighting performance in their matches.
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,
[PQF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) l (1) Rafel Nadal (ESP,1) 57 46
Doubles
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Novak Djokovic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) 61 76(5)
[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)/ Xavier Malisse (BEL)
[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/ Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
Watched match and my impression is Sommy played a great match ... His serve was deceptive and except last game of both sets Rafa was struggling to read it ... He was mixing speed and placing of the serve smartly which troubled Rafa ... It was definitely looking that Sommy and his team worked out strategy for Rafa ... He frustrated Rafa with soft balls (reducing pace on the shot), Rafa made unforced errors due to going for extra ... He was matching Rafa's athleticism from back of the court but standing lot back of the court gave him trouble to retrieving drop shots ... I think in this match Sommy used controlled aggression may be that was his team's strategy ... Unfortunately got broken at love in both sets to when he was serving to stay in the set/match ... Feeling proud to watch this match and after the match Sommy received standing ovation from center court crowd.
Rohan and Aisam r in their first Masters semi-final with good win over Serbian pair ... They dominated first set to win it comfortably without facing a single break point and breaking Serbian twice ... In second set our pair faced 4 break points and saved all to take set in tie-break ... They kept their nerves to won set and match ... In semis they r facing another unseeded pair Dolgopolov and Malisse, who upset top-seed Bryans in second round and Murrays in quarter-final.
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At $15K India F1 Futures, Mumbai
Singles Second Round
(1) Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt Nicolas REISSING (AUT) 61 62
(6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Rupesh ROY (IND) 63 64
(Q) Ashutosh SINGH (IND) l Gero KRETSCHMER (GER) 75 46 0-3 RETD
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (Q) Divij SHARAN (IND) 64 64
(PR) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) l (7) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) 16 57
(3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt James FEAVER (GBR) 63 64
(WC) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) l Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 76(5) 46 06
(2) Adam KELLNER (HUN) bt Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER) 36 61 63
Doubles Quarter Finals
MARQUIS (IND)/ WAGH (IND) l (1) KRETSCHMER (GER)/ SATSCHKO (GER) 36 46
(4) RASTOGI (IND)/ SINGH (IND) l NEUCHRIST (AUT)/ WEISSBORN (AUT) 67(4) 62 7-10
BHAMBRI (IND)/ GAJJAR (IND) bt SHOKEEN (IND)/ SIPAEYA (IND) 60 63
(2) RAJA (IND)/ SHARAN (IND) bt (WC) KADHE (IND)/ KRISHNA (IND) 64 61
Expected results for Indians ... Like straight sets victory by Yuki over Rupesh ... Ashutosh and Srirambalaji produced fighting performance in their matches.
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