Tennis News
At the London Olympics 2012, Bangalore
Unnecessary drama is going on for selection of doubles pairing for the London Olympics ... As inside top-10 Leander Paes, #7, is having direct qualification ... Other hand Rohan Bopanna, #12, and Mahesh Bhupathi, #14 r also inside ITF qualification as total of their ranking should be inside 50 ... Rohan and Mahesh already conveyed that they r not interested in partnering Lee ... For the Olympics they r playing together from January but AITA selected Lee and Mahesh as partner for the London Olympics ... Mahesh and Rohan immediately announced that either of them is not ready to play with Lee ... Other hand Lee messed up opportunity of trying out partnership with other young Indian player like Vishnu Vardhan or Yuki Bhambri or if fit then Somdev Devvarman on the grass ... As this week he is playing with South African Kevin Anderson ... I hope AITA handle this situation carefully and give India good chance of winning 2 medals with proper combination for the Olympics.
My choice of pairing r -
1. Leander Paes with Yuki Bhambri/ Vishnu Vardhan/ (if fit) Somdev Devvarman
2. Mahesh Bhupathi/ Rohan Bopanna
and for Mixed doubles -
Mahesh Bhupathi/ Sania Mirza
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At €625,300 AEGON Championships, London, Great Britain
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 67(1) 75 10-5
[R2] Leander Paes (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) l (7) Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 62 46 7-10
[QF] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l (1) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 67(7) 46
At last Leander's first round match got over on the Friday ... They needed match tie-break to overcome challenge of the French pair ... After losing the first set in tie-break Lee and Kevin needed to win the second tight set ... In match tie-break they were better than their opponents ... They r playing their second match of the day later today.
In their second round match Lee and Kevin started positively and won the first set with double break ... But in the second set Serbians take crucial break in 7th game and that was enough to won this second set ... In match tie-break Serbians take lead with double mini-break 5-1 after that Lee and Kevin tried to comeback but Serbians kept advantage and won this matchto enter into the quarters.
In the first set Mahesh and Rohan saved four break points but wasted 2 set points before top-seeds converting their set point ... In the second set Mirnyi and Nestor take crucial break in 10th game when Indians were serving for staying in the match ... Hoping for upset win for our pair.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, Bangalore
[SF] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) l (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) 63 67 (8) 46
[SF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt (5) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,488) 64 67(3) 63
Doubles Final
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) vs 46 63 10-7
Big missed opportunity for Jeevan against top-seed Ti Chen ... After winning the first set Jeevan had 2 match points in ti-break in the second ... In the third set also after down 3-5 Jeevan broke to make it 4-5 but he failed to hold his serve in 10th game.
Ranjeet tried fight back after losing the first set ... He managed to win the second but in the final set Vishnu take early break and kept advantage to win it.
Jeevan and Ranjit scored comeback win in match tie-break over last two week's winner and top-seed pair of Balaji and Arun-Prakash.
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At $10K Spain F16 Futures, Martos
[R1] (Q) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1057) l (4) Taro DANIEL (JPN,432) 36 16
One-sided win by Japanese over Ramkumar.
At the London Olympics 2012, Bangalore
Unnecessary drama is going on for selection of doubles pairing for the London Olympics ... As inside top-10 Leander Paes, #7, is having direct qualification ... Other hand Rohan Bopanna, #12, and Mahesh Bhupathi, #14 r also inside ITF qualification as total of their ranking should be inside 50 ... Rohan and Mahesh already conveyed that they r not interested in partnering Lee ... For the Olympics they r playing together from January but AITA selected Lee and Mahesh as partner for the London Olympics ... Mahesh and Rohan immediately announced that either of them is not ready to play with Lee ... Other hand Lee messed up opportunity of trying out partnership with other young Indian player like Vishnu Vardhan or Yuki Bhambri or if fit then Somdev Devvarman on the grass ... As this week he is playing with South African Kevin Anderson ... I hope AITA handle this situation carefully and give India good chance of winning 2 medals with proper combination for the Olympics.
My choice of pairing r -
1. Leander Paes with Yuki Bhambri/ Vishnu Vardhan/ (if fit) Somdev Devvarman
2. Mahesh Bhupathi/ Rohan Bopanna
and for Mixed doubles -
Mahesh Bhupathi/ Sania Mirza
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At €625,300 AEGON Championships, London, Great Britain
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 67(1) 75 10-5
[R2] Leander Paes (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) l (7) Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 62 46 7-10
[QF] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l (1) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 67(7) 46
At last Leander's first round match got over on the Friday ... They needed match tie-break to overcome challenge of the French pair ... After losing the first set in tie-break Lee and Kevin needed to win the second tight set ... In match tie-break they were better than their opponents ... They r playing their second match of the day later today.
In their second round match Lee and Kevin started positively and won the first set with double break ... But in the second set Serbians take crucial break in 7th game and that was enough to won this second set ... In match tie-break Serbians take lead with double mini-break 5-1 after that Lee and Kevin tried to comeback but Serbians kept advantage and won this matchto enter into the quarters.
In the first set Mahesh and Rohan saved four break points but wasted 2 set points before top-seeds converting their set point ... In the second set Mirnyi and Nestor take crucial break in 10th game when Indians were serving for staying in the match ... Hoping for upset win for our pair.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, Bangalore
[SF] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) l (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) 63 67 (8) 46
[SF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt (5) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,488) 64 67(3) 63
Doubles Final
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) vs 46 63 10-7
Big missed opportunity for Jeevan against top-seed Ti Chen ... After winning the first set Jeevan had 2 match points in ti-break in the second ... In the third set also after down 3-5 Jeevan broke to make it 4-5 but he failed to hold his serve in 10th game.
Ranjeet tried fight back after losing the first set ... He managed to win the second but in the final set Vishnu take early break and kept advantage to win it.
Jeevan and Ranjit scored comeback win in match tie-break over last two week's winner and top-seed pair of Balaji and Arun-Prakash.
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At $10K Spain F16 Futures, Martos
[R1] (Q) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,1057) l (4) Taro DANIEL (JPN,432) 36 16
One-sided win by Japanese over Ramkumar.
