Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Tennis News
At Davis Cup Play-off 2011, Japan

Japan announced team for their crucial tie against India ... Winner will be play in the World group ... Japan decided to go with their top 4 singles players ... Interestingly all 4 players r in singles top 200.

Japan Team - Kei Nishikori, Tatsuma Ito, Go Soeda, Yuichi Sugita
Eiji Takeuchi (capt)
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At $50K St Remy de Provence Challenger, France

[R1] (2) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 75 64

[QF] (2) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Giuseppe Menga (ITA)

Winning start for Purav and Olivier but match was lot closer than they expected ... Hopefully they will perform as per their seeding.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Hiroki Kondo (JPN) l Fritz Wolmarans (RSA)/ Michael Yani (USA) 62 57 6-10

Failed to took advantage of good start ... They started well after winning the first set comfortably but then failed to convert this into a win.

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