Tennis News
At $1.7M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE
[SF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Alexander Peya (AUT) 76(2) 76(7)
[F] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (3) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) / Marcin Matkowski (POL)
Mahesh and Rohan scored very good fighting win against Austrian pair in double tie-breaks ... This is our pair's first final of the year ... In the final they r facing 3rd seed Polish pair.
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At $50K Singapore Challenger, Singapore
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,289) l (1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,62) 67(4) 46
In the first set Yuki was down 2-4 but Yuki fought back breaking Lu in 7th game ... Yuki had a break point in 9th game but failed to convert ... Both players exchanged early mini-breaks in tie-break but from 4-all Lu won next 3 points to won the first set ... In the second set Lu take only imporant break in 3rd game ... Lu didn't give any chance to Yuki on his serve and won the second set with a single break ... Still good fighting performance by Yuki against top-60 type player.
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At $35K Kyoto Challenger, Japan
[Q1] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,337) vs Wan Gao (CHN,879)
[Q1] (WC) Purav Raja (IND,UNR) vs Chuhan Wang (CHN,729)
[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,804) vs Yuichi Ito (JPN,945)
Purav is also joined Vishnu and Divij in Kyoto qualifying ... Vishnu and Purav can face in the second qualifying if they wins their first qualifying against Chinese players ... Divij having tricky match against local player.
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At $10K India F2 Futures 2012, Bhopal
Singles Semi Finals
Sanam Singh (IND,776) bt (4) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,533) 63 61
Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,784) bt (Q) Jordi Munoz-Abrue (ESP,1710) 75 57 75
Doubles Final
(4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 76(5) 36 10-6
Sanam scored another dominating win over seeded opponent ... In the first set he lost his serve twice but broke Kento's serve four times ... The second set was one-sided and Sanam completed win inside an hour ... So he is in position of winning back to back Indian futures titles.
Sriram Balaji and Ranjeet lifted doubles title with win over Vijay Sundar and Arun-Prakash.
At $1.7M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE
[SF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Alexander Peya (AUT) 76(2) 76(7)
[F] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (3) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) / Marcin Matkowski (POL)
Mahesh and Rohan scored very good fighting win against Austrian pair in double tie-breaks ... This is our pair's first final of the year ... In the final they r facing 3rd seed Polish pair.
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At $50K Singapore Challenger, Singapore
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,289) l (1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,62) 67(4) 46
In the first set Yuki was down 2-4 but Yuki fought back breaking Lu in 7th game ... Yuki had a break point in 9th game but failed to convert ... Both players exchanged early mini-breaks in tie-break but from 4-all Lu won next 3 points to won the first set ... In the second set Lu take only imporant break in 3rd game ... Lu didn't give any chance to Yuki on his serve and won the second set with a single break ... Still good fighting performance by Yuki against top-60 type player.
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At $35K Kyoto Challenger, Japan
[Q1] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,337) vs Wan Gao (CHN,879)
[Q1] (WC) Purav Raja (IND,UNR) vs Chuhan Wang (CHN,729)
[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,804) vs Yuichi Ito (JPN,945)
Purav is also joined Vishnu and Divij in Kyoto qualifying ... Vishnu and Purav can face in the second qualifying if they wins their first qualifying against Chinese players ... Divij having tricky match against local player.
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At $10K India F2 Futures 2012, Bhopal
Singles Semi Finals
Sanam Singh (IND,776) bt (4) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,533) 63 61
Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,784) bt (Q) Jordi Munoz-Abrue (ESP,1710) 75 57 75
Doubles Final
(4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 76(5) 36 10-6
Sanam scored another dominating win over seeded opponent ... In the first set he lost his serve twice but broke Kento's serve four times ... The second set was one-sided and Sanam completed win inside an hour ... So he is in position of winning back to back Indian futures titles.
Sriram Balaji and Ranjeet lifted doubles title with win over Vijay Sundar and Arun-Prakash.
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