Thursday, March 22, 2012

Tennis News
At $4.8M Miami Masters, USA


[R1] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)/ Sam Querrey (USA)
[R1] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Jamie Murray (GBR)

Lee and Mahesh are defending champion so they r defending 1000 points but this time both r playing with their new partners ... Both pairs having tricky first round matches.
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At $50K Bath Challenger, Great Britain

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ James Cluskey (IRL) l (3) Jamie Delgado (GBR)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) 46 63 8-10

Purav and his Irish partner lost in the first round against British pair in STB.
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At $25K ITF Womenn's Tournament, Banglore, India

[QF] (WC) Kyra Shroff (IND,888) bt (Q) Nungnadda WANNASUK (THA,598) 63 64

[SF] (WC) Kyra Shroff (IND,888) vs Donna VEKIC (CRO,390)

Doubles
[SF] Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) vs (1) Tamaryn HENDLER (BEL)/ Melanie KLAFFNER (AUT)

Kyra continue with her terrific run in this $25K tournament ... She is earning chunk of points through this big tournament that will elevate her to India's #2 in Women singles ranking.

Against Nungnadda, Kyra was up with early break 3-1 ... Nungnadda broke back in 5th game, 2-3, but Kyra immediately broke her in 6th to retained one break lead, 4-2 ... Kyra kept that lead to won the first set ... In the second set also Kyra was up with early break 3-1 but again Nungnadda fought back breaking Kyra in 6th game, 3-all ... Kyra take crucial break in 9th game and then comfortably hold her serve to completed another upset win.

Next Kyra is facing 15 yrs old talented Croatian, who upset Belgian top-seed in the quarters.

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At $10K UAE F1 Futures 2012, Fujairah

[QF] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,524) l (7) Jules MARIE (FRA,720) 57 36

Jeevan lost against Frenchman ... Need to show consistency against these lower ranked opponents.

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