Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Tennis News
At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England

Group A
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)
Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)
Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER)

Group B
Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR)
Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)
Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Grouping is declared for ATP World Tour Finals ... Rohan and Aisam r in toughest group in their first participation in year-end tournament ... They r with in-form pairs like Llodra-Zimo, Nestor-MadMax and Polish pair ... If Lee and Hesh manage to keep aside their differences then they r having good draw to reach in the semis.
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At $15K F10 India Futures, Pune

[R1] (1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,378) bt James MARSALEK (GBR,797) 60 76(6)
[R1] Yu CHANG (CHN,868) bt (LL) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1490) 62 64
[R1] (LL) Abdulla Maqdas (KUW,973) bt Roberto ORTEGA-OLMEDO (ESP,610) 75 26 63
[R1] (8) Richard BECKER (GER,604) bt (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1420) 64 36 61
[R1] (3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,395) bt (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,UNR) 60 62
[R1] Alexander SATSCHKO (GER,775) bt (Q) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,UNR) 16 62 63
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,696) bt (Q) Aditya MADKEKAR (IND,UNR) 61 61
[R1] (7) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,592) bt Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,793) 63 61
[R1] (6) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,564) bt Jaime PULGAR-GARCIA (ESP,895) 75 61
[R1] (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1369) bt (WC) Rakshay THAKKAR (IND,UNR) 63 62
[R1] (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND,UNR) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND,1805) 63 61
[R1] (4) Karan RASTOGI (IND,401) bt (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1003) 64 67(1) 64
[R1] (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,491) bt (Q) Jason JUNG (USA,UNR) 46 64 76(5)
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,822) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,917) 64 63
[R1] (Q) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,1514) bt (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND,UNR) 63 64
[R1] Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP,677) bt (2) Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,385) 75 1-0 Retd

Last week's runner-up Marsalek produced fighting performance in the second set against top-seed Yuki after getting bagel in the first set ... Myneni continued with his good run beating qualifier Kunal comfortably ... Balaji gave heck of the fight to Karan showing how much he is improved in last few months ... Jung also gave tough fight to Vijayant but Vijayant showed his fighting qualify after losing the first set ... He needed tie-break in the final set to complete the victory.

Young wild-carders Ramkumar and Arjun gave decent performance but failed to overcome challenge from their seniors.

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