Monday, August 01, 2011

Tennis News
At $220K College Park WTA International, USA
Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) bt (2) Olga Govortsova (BLR)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 63 63

Top-seed Sania and Yaroslava Shvedova defeated 2nd seed Olga Govortsova and Alla Kudryavtseva comfortably to won their first title together ... For Sania it was a 12th WTA doubles title and for Shvedova it was her 4th.
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At $619.5K Farmers Classic, Los Angeles, USA

Doubles Final
Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l (3) Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Xavier Malisse (BEL) 67(3) 67(10)

Sommy and Treat started well and they were leading 3-0 with double break but they failed to keep this advantage ... Mark and Xavier won next 5 games to lead 3-5 ... Again Sommy and Treat broke back but Mark and Xavier proved too strong in tie-break to won the first set ... In the second set also both pairs traded breaks regularly to take the set in tie-break ... In tie-break our pair also had set points but failed to convert it ... Very close loss for Sommy and Treat.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F4, Almaty

[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,844) vs (1) Malek Jaziri (TUN,259)
[R1] Rupesh Roy (IND,709) vs (Q) Daniiar Duldaev (KGZ,UNR)
[R1] (4) Karan Rastogi (IND,354) vs Vijayant Malik (IND,567)
[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,UNR) vs (LL) Timur Isaev (KAZ,UNR)
[R1] Rohan Gajjar (IND,601) vs (3) Denys Molchanov (UKR,353)
[R1] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,583) vs (Q) Ahmadjon Muhammad (TJK,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt (WC) Adil Eltaev (KAZ)/ Dinmukhammed Yessenkulov (KAZ) 61 61
[R1] (4) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) bt Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) 64 64
[R1] Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND) bt (WC) Alem Tleshov (KAZ)/ Zhanbolat Zhakupov (KAZ) 61 62

[QF] (4) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Rupesh Roy (IND) vs Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Karan Rastogi (IND)

This week Vishnu is missing from the list, hopefully he will be back on tour from the next week.

Good to see Sidharth Rawat qualified for the main-draw and having good chance to earn his first ranking point as he is facing local lucky-loser ... Tough match for Kaza against Tunisian top-seed Jaziri ... Rohan is also having tough match against Ukrainian 3rd seed Molchanov ... Also interesting match between Karan and Vijayant.

Expected winning start for our doubles teams against local pairs.

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