Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tennis News

In latest ATP ranking updates 19 yrs old Yuki Bhambri become India's top male tennis player ... After his last week's title win at Fergana challenger he climb in the ranking to his career best ranking #218 ... Somdev is down to #232 and Vishnu Vardhan is on #357.
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At $637K Brussels WTA Open, Belgium (Red clay)

[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,192) l Monica Niculescu (ROU,34) 16 57

Doubles
[R1] (4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Mervana Jugic-Salkic (BIH)/ Sandra Klemenschits (AUT) 64 62

[QF] (4) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (WC) Elena Bovina (RUS)/ Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL)

After losing the first set easily Sania tried fightback in the second ... Two times she fought back after losing her serve but Monica take crucial break in 11th game to won this match ... Still good to see Sania qualified for main-draw in the singles after long-time.

In doubles 4th seed Sania and Bethanie had straight sets wining start ... Next they r facing wild-card pair in the quarters.

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At $10K Morocco F1 Futures, Kenitra (clay)

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (887) l Elie ROUSSET (FRA,592) 36 36

[Q3] (2) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (887) bt Romain BERQUAND (FRA,UNR) 63 61
[Q2] (2) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (887) bt Melik FELER (FRA,UNR) 60 62
[Q1] (2) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (887) bye

Doubles
[R1] (3) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Oscar SABATE-BRETOS (ESP) l Sebastian BADER (AUT)/ Lukas KONCILIA (AUT) 46 57

This week Ramkumar is playing in Moroccan futures ... After qualifying had a tough first round against top-600 Frenchman and lost it in straight sets ... In the doubles he and his Spanish partner lost against Austrian pair.

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,...