Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2012, Melbourne

Doubles
[QF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (2) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 63 57 76(6)

[SF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)/ Vera Zvonareva (RUS)

Junior Girls
[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) bt Naiktha Bains (AUS)/ Danielle Wagland (AUS) 57 62 10-5

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) vs Irina Maria Bara (ROU)/ Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)

Sania and Elena started positively and take early break to lead 3-1 ... They again broke 2nd seed American opponents in 9th game to won the first set ... In the second set again Sania and Elena broke them in 2nd game to take 3-0 lead ... But they missed break point opportunity in 4th game and from here Americans fought back into the match ... They broke Elena's serve in 5th game and then broke Sania's serve in 11th game to won the second set ... In the decider 2nd seed take first break when they broke Elena in 5th game but our pair immediately broke back to make it 3-all ... In 7th game Sania saved couple of break points but Americans converted 3rd break point to take important break but while serving for the match at 4-5 Sania and Elena had 2 break points, 15-40 ... Americans saved both but our pair converted 3rd break point to make it 5-all ... Sania hold her next long service game which went into multiple deuces and also saved 2 break points ... Americans hold next serve after saving a match point to take the set in tie-break ... In tie-break both pairs traded early mini-breaks but at 3-2 Elena and Sania take crucial double mini-breaks on Americans serve to lead 5-2 ... At 2-6 down American pair take a mini-break back and then won 2 points on their serve to make it 5-6 and again take mini-break on Sania's serve to make it 6-all ... Sania won the next point on her serve to gave them 6th match point and this time they converted winning the point on American's serve ... This was 3 hours and 5 minutes marathon match between these two pairs ... Good win by Sania and Elena but our pair messed up many chances to finish this match in straight sets ... In the semis they will face unseeded Russian pair of Kuznetsova and Zvonareva.

In junior doubles Australian girls take crucial break in 12th game to won the first set ... Rutuja and her Indonesian partner Aldila Sutjiadi dominated the second set when they broke Aussie pair in the 1st and 5th games to won it ... In STB, Rutuja and Aldila take early double mini-break lead, 5-1 ... After they traded few mini-breaks but Rutuja and Aldila managed to keep their advantage and converted 2nd match point to scored another good win ... Next they r facing European pair in the quarters, who received walkover from 2nd seeds in the second round.

-----------------------------------------------------------
At $15K Egypt F1 Futures, Cairo (clay)

[Q1] U M Gugan VERMA (IND,UNR) bt Karim KADRY (EGY,UNR) 63 60

[Q2] U M Gugan VERMA (IND,UNR) l (5) Ivo MIJIC (GER,962) 16 46

[R1] Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,556) vs Karim-Mohamed MAAMOUN (EGY,721)
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,510) vs Giulio TORRONI (ITA,570)

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Sherif SABRY (EGY)/ Mohamed SAFWAT (EGY)

Jeevan and Ranjeet r playing in Egypt ... Jeevan having tricky match against local player in the first round ... Ranjeet having more tough match against Italian on the clay.

No comments:

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...