Monday, April 11, 2011

Tennis News
At $721K Family Circle Cup, Charleston, USA
Doubles Final
Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) 64

Sania and Elena started well breaking Bethanie in first and fifth games ... While serving for the set at 5-2 Sania lost her serve but Elena hold her serve to won first set ... Our pair again started aggressively and broke Bethanie in first game and Meghann in third game to take 4-0 lead ... Bethanie and Meghann fought back breaking Elena in 6th game and then broke Sania in 8th game to make it 4-all ... But Sania and Elena didn't in mood of losing advantage ... They broke Bethanie in 9th game and then Elena hold her serve to gave our pair their second Premier title ... This is Sania's 11th WTA doubles title and Elena's 5th.

So this week Sania re-enters into top-75 , #73, in singles and top-30, #29, in doubles.

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At €2.75M Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monaco

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bye

As a seeded pair they r having first round bye and in second round they will face winner between Eric Butorac/ Jean-Julien Rojer and Spanish pair Guillermo Garcia-Lopez/ Albert Montanes.

Indian Express decided to skip this Master tournament.

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At $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger, South Africa

[R1 Karan Rastogi (IND,322) l Ludovic Walter (FRA,307) 46 46

Hopefully from next week at Indian futures Karan find his form.
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At $10K India F3, Chandigarh

Singles First Round
(1) (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND) 64 62
Vijayant Malik (IND) bt Vivek Shokeen (IND) 63 63
(Q) Divij Sharan (IND) bt Junn Mitsuhashi (JPN) 26 75 63
(5) Murad Inoyatov (UZB) bt Ladislav Chramasota (CZE) 64 61

(3) Julien Dubail (BEL) bt Bumpei Sato (JPN) 61 46 63
Kento Takeuchi (JPN) bt Mike Vermeer (LUX) 63 63
Hsin-Han Lee (TPE) bt (Q) Fumiaki Kita (JPN) 61 63
(7) Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) bt (Q) Akash Wagh (IND) 63 67(3) 61

(Q) Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (8) Rupesh Roy (IND) 61 76(4)
(Q) Libor Salaba (CZE) bt Antoine Tassart (FRA) 46 63 62
Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND) bt (WC) Ajay Yadav (IND) 64 61
(4) Marc Fornell-Mestres (ESP) bt (PR) Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 67(5) 63 63

(6) Rohan Gajjar (IND) bt (Q) Lakshit Sood (IND) 60 61
(WC) Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) bt (Q) Patrik Rosenholm (SWE) 36 75 61
Mark-Alexander Kepler (GER) bt Jakhongir Khaydarov (UZB) 76(5) 36 61
(2) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Jeson Patrombon (PHI) 61 60

Doubles First Round
(1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Laurent-Olivie Daxhelet (BEL)/ Nebojs Peric (SRB) 61 75
(WC) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) bt Julien Dubail (BEL)/ Antoine Tassart (FRA) 64 64
(4) Marc Fornell-Mestres (ESP)/ Mike Vermeer (LUX) bt Mark-Alexander Kepler (GER)/ Shivang Mishra (IND) 75 36 10-7
Fumiaki Kita (JPN)/ Junn Mitsuhashi (JPN) bt Vignesh Peranamallur (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) 76(5) 64

Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND) bt Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND)/ Akash Wagh (IND) 62 36 10-7
(3) Srirambalaji Narayanaswami (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Rohan Gajjar (IND) 63 36 10-7
Ladislav Chramasota (CZE)/ Libor Salaba (CZE) bt Digvijay Singh Mehta (IND)/ Ajay Yadav (IND) 62 64
(2) Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)/ Bumpei Sato (JPN) bt Rupesh Roy (IND)/ Vivek Shokeen (IND) 46 75 10-6

Top seed Vishnu scored comfortable win over Vijay Sundar ... Vijayant and Kaza Vinayak also started with convincing win.

Divij scored good comeback upset win over his Japanese opponent ... But sad to see Rupesh Roy couldn't overcome challenge from veteran experienced Ashutosh Singh ... Vignesh also scored comeback win over Swedish qualifier ... Yuki started with bang losing only a game against JR WR #10 Filipino.

In doubles wild-card pair Sood brothers started with win.

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