Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Tennis News
At $2.6M Cincinnati Masters, USA

[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Marc Lopez (ESP)/ Rafael Nadal (ESP)

Tough match for Lee and Hesh but they need to start these wins.
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At $100K+H Cordenons Challenger, Italy

[R1] Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (1) Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Michael Kohlmann (GER) 36 46

So no upset from Purav and his French partner against top-seeds.
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At $50K Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Karan Rastogi (IND,351) l Radu Albot (MDA,267) 57 67(3)
[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,370) l (7) Farrukh Dustov (UZB,231) 46 75 46

Encouraging performance by both against higher ranked opponents ... After losing the first set Vishnu fought back winning the second but Farrukh was better in the third ... Karan lost both sets due to failing converting opportunities ... So now both will be back to Astana for the challenger.
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At $15K Spain F29 Futures, Vigo

[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,938) l (3) Roberto CARBALLES BAENA (ESP,440) 16 16

Doubles
[QF] Rafael MAZON-HERNANDEZ (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (4) Florent DIEP (FRA)/ Mathieu RODRIGUES (FRA) 60 63

[SF] Rafael MAZON-HERNANDEZ (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs Axel ALVAREZ LLAMAS (ESP)/ Roberto CARBALLES BAENA (ESP)

One-sided loss for Ramkumar against very talented Spanish Baena.

Ramkumar is having another opportunity of facing Baena ... This time in doubles semi-final.

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At $10K Istanbul, Turkey

[R1] Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA (IND,707) l Anja PRISLAN (SLO,508) 26 46
[R1] (Q) Ankita RAINA (IND,829) bt (WC) Ekin BAHITLI (TUR,UNR) 62 61

[R2] (Q)Ankita RAINA (IND,829) l (8) Elina SVITOLINA (UKR,428) 36 26

Doubles
[R1] RAINA (IND)/ SUNKARA (IND) bt ARGINBAYEVA (KAZ)/ SVITOLINA (UKR) 64 26 10-3
[R1] SHAKOVETS (GER)/ SHRIVASTAVA (IND) bt BEREZHNAYA (KAZ)/ BEREZHNAYA (KAZ) 60 62

[QF] RAINA (IND)/ SUNKARA (IND) vs (1) MOORE (GBR)/ WHYBOURN (GBR)
[QF] SHAKOVETS (GER)/ SHRIVASTAVA (IND) vs (3) EKSHIBAROVA (UZB)/ SHLOMO (ISR)

Ashvarya failed to cross first hurdle but Ankita scored expected victory over her un-ranked opponent before losing to top-500 player in the second round.

In doubles our players had winning start ... Next they r facing seeded pairs.

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