Tennis News
At $2M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE
[QF] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP)/ Shahar Peer (ISR) 61 46 10-8
Sania and Elena started strongly and breaking opponents serve twice they won the first set comfortably ... In the second set Maria and Shahar take crucial break in 10th game breaking Elena's serve when she was serving for staying in the set ... STB was very close as both pairs were going neck to neck but our pair take crucial min-break in the end and won this match.
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At $513K Open 13, Marseille, France
[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Arnaud Clement (FRA)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) 63 64
Good straight sets win by our pair over decent pair ... Lukas and Arnaud defeated Lee and Mahesh in the last year's Wimbledon ... Our pair won the first set with a single break ... In the second set Rohan lost his serve but this time our pair broke them twice to won this match.
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At $10K India F1 Futures 2012, Chandigarh
Singles Quarter Finals
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,782) 61 61
(8) Saketh MYNENI (IND,693) l (4) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,536) 75 2-5 Retd
N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,739) bt (7) Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,670) 62 75
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,537) bt (2) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,515) 63 62
Doubles Semi Finals
GAJJAR (IND)/ MYNENI (IND) bt (1) LEE (TPE)/ PENG (TPE) 61 67(5) 10-4
(WC) KANNAN (IND)/ RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (2) BARRY (IRL)/ BUGBY (GBR) 76(1) 63
Sanam scored very dominating win over Sekiguchi losing only 2 games ... Balaji also scored straight sets win over Uzbek Ikramov ... After winning the first set 6-2 Balaji was leading with break 4-2 in the second ... Ikramov broke back to lead 5-4 but after that Balaji won next 3 games and again broke Ikramov in 11th game to win this match ... As per report Saketh retired from his match, still waiting for the final result.
Ranjeet scored another upset win by Indian over higher ranked opponent ... He also defeated Japanese in straight sets ... Saketh was unlucky as he retired from his match ... After winning the first set he was break down before retirement.
In doubles our both pairs entered into the final beating top 2 seeded pairs.
At $2M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE
[QF] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP)/ Shahar Peer (ISR) 61 46 10-8
Sania and Elena started strongly and breaking opponents serve twice they won the first set comfortably ... In the second set Maria and Shahar take crucial break in 10th game breaking Elena's serve when she was serving for staying in the set ... STB was very close as both pairs were going neck to neck but our pair take crucial min-break in the end and won this match.
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At $513K Open 13, Marseille, France
[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Arnaud Clement (FRA)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) 63 64
Good straight sets win by our pair over decent pair ... Lukas and Arnaud defeated Lee and Mahesh in the last year's Wimbledon ... Our pair won the first set with a single break ... In the second set Rohan lost his serve but this time our pair broke them twice to won this match.
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At $10K India F1 Futures 2012, Chandigarh
Singles Quarter Finals
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,782) 61 61
(8) Saketh MYNENI (IND,693) l (4) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,536) 75 2-5 Retd
N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,739) bt (7) Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,670) 62 75
(5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,537) bt (2) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,515) 63 62
Doubles Semi Finals
GAJJAR (IND)/ MYNENI (IND) bt (1) LEE (TPE)/ PENG (TPE) 61 67(5) 10-4
(WC) KANNAN (IND)/ RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (2) BARRY (IRL)/ BUGBY (GBR) 76(1) 63
Sanam scored very dominating win over Sekiguchi losing only 2 games ... Balaji also scored straight sets win over Uzbek Ikramov ... After winning the first set 6-2 Balaji was leading with break 4-2 in the second ... Ikramov broke back to lead 5-4 but after that Balaji won next 3 games and again broke Ikramov in 11th game to win this match ... As per report Saketh retired from his match, still waiting for the final result.
Ranjeet scored another upset win by Indian over higher ranked opponent ... He also defeated Japanese in straight sets ... Saketh was unlucky as he retired from his match ... After winning the first set he was break down before retirement.
In doubles our both pairs entered into the final beating top 2 seeded pairs.
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