Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Tennis News
At At $2.1M China Open, Beijing

[R1] (4) Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (WC) Mao Xin-Gong (CHN)/ Zhe Li (CHN) 62 36 10-3

[QF] (4) Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Marin Cilic (CRO)/ Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)

After winning the first set comfortably against local wild-card pair, our pair struggled in the second ... Both pairs traded early breaks but Chinese pair take crucial break in 8th game and then hold to take match in super tie-break ... Terrific STB for Lee and Mahesh, they won 9 points in a row taking four mini-breaks to lead 9-0 and then converted 4th match point to complete the victory.

Next they r facing tricky Croatian pair.

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At $1.215M Japan Open Tennis Championships 2011, Tokyo

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Marcelo Melo (BRA)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 46 36

Japan open proved disappointing for Indians ... After Sommy's loss in the singles first round, today our top-seed pair, Rohan and Aisam, lost against experienced Brazilian pair in straight sets ... In both sets Brazilians broke our pair serve twice and other hand our pair managed to broke their serve once despite getting multiple opportunities.
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At $50K Palermo Challenger, Italy

[QF] Walter Trusendi (ITA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (4) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL) 46 67(5)

Purav and his Italian partner gave close fight to 4th seed Polish pair but found themselves on losing side.
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At $15K Indonesia F5 Futures 2011, Palembang

[R1] (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,822) bt Chuhan WANG (CHN,727) 75 61
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,695) bt (Q) Ji Sung NAM (KOR,1117) 36 64 62
[R1] (7) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,430) bt (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1213) 63 61
[R1] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,610) bt (8) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,446) 63 64
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,561) l (Q) Jung-Woong NA (KOR,1848) 46 16
[R1] (3) Karan RASTOGI (IND,324) bt (Q) Kenny BUN (CAM,1217) 75 60
[R1] (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,426) bt Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA,918) 61 63

[R2] (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,822) vs (1) Danai UDOMCHOKE (THA,205)
[R2] (7) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,430) vs Karunuday SINGH (IND,695)
[R2] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,610) vs (WC) Elbert SIE (INA,1140)
[R2] (3) Karan RASTOGI (IND,324) vs (Q) Jung-Woong NA (KOR,1848)
[R2] (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,426) vs Vijayant MALIK (IND,611)

Very good upset win by Rohan Gajjar over top-500 and talented young local player in straight sets ... Also good upset win by Kaza over higher ranked Chinese ... Other results were expected but surprising loss of Ranjeet against very lowly ranked Korean.

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