Tennis News
At $3.8M Rome Masters and WTA Tournament, Spain
[R2] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (1) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 16 36
Top-seed Huber and Raymond toyed with pairing of Sania and Bethanie ... They scored comfortable win in 58 minutes ... In both sets they take control with early breaks and won it with double breaks.
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At $35K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,376) l Evgeny Kirillov (RUS,274) 64 26 46
Doubles
[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Abduvoris Saitmukhamedov (UZB)/ Sergey Shipilov (UZB) 62 60
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 16 76(3) 12-10
[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)
Vishnu had break point opportunities early but failed to convert ... He take crucial break in 9th game to won the first set ... In this set Vishnu served 9 aces but from the second set Vishnu struggled with his serve ... In the second set he had a single ace and his 1st serve percentage were mere 41% ... Kirillov take advantage of it and broke him twice to won the second set ... Vishnu's struggled with his serve continued in the third ... Kirillov take crucial break in 9th game and then hold to complete the victory.
Purav and Divij having very easy winning start against local wild-card pair ... They won this match in 42 minutes losing only 2 games.
After losing the first set easily in the second set both pairs were on serve until 9th game but Kravchuk and Molchanov had 3 match points in 10 th game on Vishnu's serve, 15-40 ... Our pair won next 3 points to hold Vishnu's serve ... In tie-break our pair take mini-break on 8th point to lead 5-3 and then double the mini-breaks 6-3 and hold their service point to won the second set in tie-break ... In STB, our pair take early mini-break, 4-3, but Kravchuk and Molchanov take mini-break back bring on the serve, 4-5 ... Again Yuki take mini-break to lead 6-4 but again Kravchuk and Molchanov brought back on serve at 6-7... Our pair had a match point at 9-8 then they saved 4th match point at 9-10 and converted 2nd match point scoring excellent comeback win.
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At $25K ITF Tournament, Fergana, Uzbekistan
[R1] (Q) Kyra SHROFF (IND,668) bt (8) Keren Shlomo (ISR,359) 64 61
[R2] (Q) Kyra SHROFF (IND,668) vs Chiaki OKADAUE (JPN,489)
Doubles
[QF] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Maya GAVEROVA (RUS) l (1) Lyudmyla KICHENOK (UKR)/ Nadiya KICHENOK (UKR) 46 26
Kyra and Keren were holding their service games easily ... Kyra saved break point in 7th game but take crucial break in 10th game when Keren was serving for the staying in the set ... In the second set Keren had 3 break point opportunities in 1st game but Kyra saved those to hold her serve ... Kyra broke Karen in 2nd game and take early lead ... In 4th game Kyra had couple of break point opportunities but Karen managed to hold this 15 minutes long game ... Kyra doubled her breaks lead after breaking Karen in 6th game and then hold comfortably to scored another good win against top-350 type Israeli player ... Next she is facing Japanese player Chiaki Okadaue.
Nidhi and her Russian partner Maya played good first set ... Top-seed Kichenok twins take crucial break in 9th game to won the first set ... Kichenok twins take early break in the second set and then again broke them in 7th game.
At $3.8M Rome Masters and WTA Tournament, Spain
[R2] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (1) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 16 36
Top-seed Huber and Raymond toyed with pairing of Sania and Bethanie ... They scored comfortable win in 58 minutes ... In both sets they take control with early breaks and won it with double breaks.
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At $35K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,376) l Evgeny Kirillov (RUS,274) 64 26 46
Doubles
[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Abduvoris Saitmukhamedov (UZB)/ Sergey Shipilov (UZB) 62 60
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 16 76(3) 12-10
[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)
Vishnu had break point opportunities early but failed to convert ... He take crucial break in 9th game to won the first set ... In this set Vishnu served 9 aces but from the second set Vishnu struggled with his serve ... In the second set he had a single ace and his 1st serve percentage were mere 41% ... Kirillov take advantage of it and broke him twice to won the second set ... Vishnu's struggled with his serve continued in the third ... Kirillov take crucial break in 9th game and then hold to complete the victory.
Purav and Divij having very easy winning start against local wild-card pair ... They won this match in 42 minutes losing only 2 games.
After losing the first set easily in the second set both pairs were on serve until 9th game but Kravchuk and Molchanov had 3 match points in 10 th game on Vishnu's serve, 15-40 ... Our pair won next 3 points to hold Vishnu's serve ... In tie-break our pair take mini-break on 8th point to lead 5-3 and then double the mini-breaks 6-3 and hold their service point to won the second set in tie-break ... In STB, our pair take early mini-break, 4-3, but Kravchuk and Molchanov take mini-break back bring on the serve, 4-5 ... Again Yuki take mini-break to lead 6-4 but again Kravchuk and Molchanov brought back on serve at 6-7... Our pair had a match point at 9-8 then they saved 4th match point at 9-10 and converted 2nd match point scoring excellent comeback win.
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At $25K ITF Tournament, Fergana, Uzbekistan
[R1] (Q) Kyra SHROFF (IND,668) bt (8) Keren Shlomo (ISR,359) 64 61
[R2] (Q) Kyra SHROFF (IND,668) vs Chiaki OKADAUE (JPN,489)
Doubles
[QF] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Maya GAVEROVA (RUS) l (1) Lyudmyla KICHENOK (UKR)/ Nadiya KICHENOK (UKR) 46 26
Kyra and Keren were holding their service games easily ... Kyra saved break point in 7th game but take crucial break in 10th game when Keren was serving for the staying in the set ... In the second set Keren had 3 break point opportunities in 1st game but Kyra saved those to hold her serve ... Kyra broke Karen in 2nd game and take early lead ... In 4th game Kyra had couple of break point opportunities but Karen managed to hold this 15 minutes long game ... Kyra doubled her breaks lead after breaking Karen in 6th game and then hold comfortably to scored another good win against top-350 type Israeli player ... Next she is facing Japanese player Chiaki Okadaue.
Nidhi and her Russian partner Maya played good first set ... Top-seed Kichenok twins take crucial break in 9th game to won the first set ... Kichenok twins take early break in the second set and then again broke them in 7th game.
