Monday, January 16, 2012

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2012, Melbourne

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,105) l Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL,48) 46 26

Doubles
[R1] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Chris Guccione (AUS)
[R1] Leander Peas (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Greg Jones (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)

Sania lost in the first round due to her unforced errors ... She committed 36 UFEs and Pironkova 30 UFEs ... Other hand Pironkova hit 18 winners and 16 winners by Sania.

In the first set Pironkova broke Sania in 2nd game to lead 3-0 but Sania fought back and made it 4-all ... At 4-5 while serving to remained in the set Sania struggled with her game, though she saved a set point but Pironkova converted second to won the set ... In the second set Sania's game was haywire ... She struggled to put her first serve in and then with her game ... Pironkova broke her twice to won the second set and match.

Doubles draw is out ... Sania and Elena r sixth seeds and having favorable draw ... In quarters they can face 2nd seed Raymond and Huber ... Rohan and Mahesh r fourth seeds and r in same draw with Bryans but their first real test will come in the third round against thirteenth seeds Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram ... Lee and Radek r unseeded due to poor doubles ranking, #91, of Radek ... They can face tough third seeds Llodra and Zimonjic in the third round.

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At $15K Great Britain F2 Futures 2012, Sheffield

[Q1] (2) Karan RASTOGI (IND,391) bye
[Q2] (2) Karan RASTOGI (IND,391) bt Simon MUSSET (FRA,UNR) 60 60
[Q3] (2) Karan RASTOGI (IND,391) bt Sizya Ernest KIVANDA (GBR,UNR) 63 63

[R1] (Q) Karan RASTOGI (IND,391) vs Germain GIGOUNON (BEL,459)

Karan gave double bagel to his unranked French opponent in the second round ... Next in the final qualifying he defeated local unranked player easily and enter into maindraw ... In the maindraw he is facing Belgian Gigounon..

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