Tennis News
At €625,300 AEGON Championships, London, Great Britain
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 4-4 (match suspended due to rain)
[R2] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 63 76(5)
Mahesh and Rohan scored good win against Baghdatis and Jamie Murray in grass season opener ... Giving another strong case for their selection as pair for London Olympics.
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At $75K+H Monza Challenger, Italy
[QF] (1) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/ Yuri Schukin (KAZ) 67(4) 57
This week Purav and Rameez failed to repeat last week's result and lost in well fought two sets against Kazakh pair.
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At $75K Nottingham-2 Challenger, England
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Lauryna Grigelis (LTU) l Dudi Sela (ISR)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 46 57
Two first round losses against different partner in the first round for Divij.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, Bangalore
[QF] (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,908) 76(7) 63
[QF] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) bt Warit SORNBUTNARK (THA,1081) 61 62
[QF] (5) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,488) bt (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND,443) 62 63
[QF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,548) 60 64
Doubles
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (4) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 57 62 10-8
[SF] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 64 64
Ashwin fought hard against top-seed ... Jeevan, Ranjeet and Vishnu scored comfortable win over their respective opponents ... Surprised to see Ranjeet's easy win over Vijayant.
Top two seeds r in the doubles final.
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At $10K Germany F5 Futures, Munich-Unterfohring (red clay)
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,719) bt (Q) Dmytro KOVALYOV (UKR,UNR) 26 62 76(3)
[R2] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,719) l (6) Jose STATHAM (NZL,365) 46 46
Vijay Sundar needed comeback win and the final set tie-break to overcome unranked Ukrainian but lost against in the second round against Statham.
----------------------------------------------------------- At €625,300 AEGON Championships, London, Great Britain
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 4-4 (match suspended due to rain)
[R2] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 63 76(5)
Mahesh and Rohan scored good win against Baghdatis and Jamie Murray in grass season opener ... Giving another strong case for their selection as pair for London Olympics.
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At $75K+H Monza Challenger, Italy
[QF] (1) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/ Yuri Schukin (KAZ) 67(4) 57
This week Purav and Rameez failed to repeat last week's result and lost in well fought two sets against Kazakh pair.
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At $75K Nottingham-2 Challenger, England
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Lauryna Grigelis (LTU) l Dudi Sela (ISR)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 46 57
Two first round losses against different partner in the first round for Divij.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, Bangalore
[QF] (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,908) 76(7) 63
[QF] (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) bt Warit SORNBUTNARK (THA,1081) 61 62
[QF] (5) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,488) bt (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND,443) 62 63
[QF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,548) 60 64
Doubles
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (4) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 57 62 10-8
[SF] (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 64 64
Ashwin fought hard against top-seed ... Jeevan, Ranjeet and Vishnu scored comfortable win over their respective opponents ... Surprised to see Ranjeet's easy win over Vijayant.
Top two seeds r in the doubles final.
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At $10K Germany F5 Futures, Munich-Unterfohring (red clay)
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,719) bt (Q) Dmytro KOVALYOV (UKR,UNR) 26 62 76(3)
[R2] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,719) l (6) Jose STATHAM (NZL,365) 46 46
Vijay Sundar needed comeback win and the final set tie-break to overcome unranked Ukrainian but lost against in the second round against Statham.
At $10K Spain F16 Futures, Martos
[QF] Blake MOTT (AUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) l (3) Marcos ESPARCIA OMEDAS (ESP)/ Gerard GRANOLLERS-PUJOL (ESP) 06 26
In doubles Ramkumar and his partner failed to produce fight.
