Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Tennis News
At French Open 2012, Paris, France

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (5) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (1) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 46 75 10-5

[SF] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ)/ Daniele Bracciali (ITA)
[SF] (5) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)

Juniors
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jorge Brian Panta Herreros (PER) bt Alexios Halebian (USA)/ Mitchell Krueger (USA) 64 76(3)

[R2] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jorge Brian Panta Herreros (PER) vs (3) Julien Cagnina (BEL)/ Luke Saville (AUS)

Lee and Elena made excellent comeback after losing the first set and down with the break in the second set, 2-4, against top-seeds ... They won closely fought the second set after taking crucial break in 11th game before winning STB comfortably ... In the semis our both pairs r facing unranked pairs.

In junior doubles Arjun and his Paraguayan partner had a winning start against American pair ... Next they r facing 3rd seed Pair.

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At $25K Women's ITF Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,750) l (Q) Lin Zhu (CHN,591) 26 16
[R1] (Q) Kyra Shroff (IND,637) l (5) Valentyna Ivakhnenko (UKR,258) 57 06

Doubles
[QF] Anastasia MUKHAMETOVA (RUS)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) vs (4) Eugeniya PASHKOVA (RUS)/ Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS)

Decent performance by Kyra in the first set against top-250 type player.

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,...