Tennis News
At French Open 2012, Paris, France
Mixed Doubles Final
(7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 76(3) 61
Juniors
[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jorge Brian Panta Herreros (PER) l Andrew Harris (AUS)/ Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 26 75 9-11
Sania and Mahesh lifted their second mixed doubles title before this they won the Australian Open in 2009 ... This was Mahesh's 8th mixed doubles grandslam title and overall 12th grandslam title ... This win boost their chances of claiming mixed doubles pairing for the Olympics.
Unseeded Jans-Ignacik and Gonzalez take early break on Sania's serve to lead 3-1 but while serving for the set at 5-4 Gonzalez failed to hold his serve and then Sania and Mahesh won tie-break with double min-break ... In the second set it was one way traffic, Sania and Mahesh won it comfortably breaking opponent's serve twice.
Arjun with his Peruvian partner lost close match against AUssie pair ... After losing the first set they fought hard to won the second but lost match tie-break against Aussies.
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At $75K Aegon Trophy Challenger, Nottingham, England
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Tatsuma Ito (JPN) l (WC) David Rice (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 67(5) 36
Divij and Ito failed to overcome challenge of local pair on the grass.
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At $35K Furth Challenger, Germany
[QF] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Adam Hubble (AUS)/ Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL) 76(6) 36 10-8
[SF] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (4) Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/ Yuri Schukin (KAZ)
Purav and Rameez needed to dig deep for overcoming challenge from Hubble and Statham ... After winning the first set Purav and Rameez lost the second ... In match tie-break Hubble and Statham gave big fight but Purav and Rameez kept cool to win this tie-break ... Next they r facing tough challenge of Kazakh pair.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Mysore
[QF] (8) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA,588) bt (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) 62 76(5)
[QF] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,548) bt (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) 36 62 76(3)
[QF] (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND,443) bt Saketh MYNENI (IND,590) 63 36 61
[QF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1076) 62 76(5)
Doubles
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 64 64
[SF] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Venkat IYER (IND)/ Bowen OUYANG (CHN) 75 76(4)
So this week Vijayant proved better in his duel with Saketh ... Also happy for Bala for his first win over Jeevan ... Good friendly rivalry is building between our Indian players ... Good fighting performance by Sidharth in his loss against Vishnu.
At French Open 2012, Paris, France
Mixed Doubles Final
(7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 76(3) 61
Juniors
[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jorge Brian Panta Herreros (PER) l Andrew Harris (AUS)/ Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 26 75 9-11
Sania and Mahesh lifted their second mixed doubles title before this they won the Australian Open in 2009 ... This was Mahesh's 8th mixed doubles grandslam title and overall 12th grandslam title ... This win boost their chances of claiming mixed doubles pairing for the Olympics.
Unseeded Jans-Ignacik and Gonzalez take early break on Sania's serve to lead 3-1 but while serving for the set at 5-4 Gonzalez failed to hold his serve and then Sania and Mahesh won tie-break with double min-break ... In the second set it was one way traffic, Sania and Mahesh won it comfortably breaking opponent's serve twice.
Arjun with his Peruvian partner lost close match against AUssie pair ... After losing the first set they fought hard to won the second but lost match tie-break against Aussies.
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At $75K Aegon Trophy Challenger, Nottingham, England
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Tatsuma Ito (JPN) l (WC) David Rice (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 67(5) 36
Divij and Ito failed to overcome challenge of local pair on the grass.
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At $35K Furth Challenger, Germany
[QF] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Adam Hubble (AUS)/ Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL) 76(6) 36 10-8
[SF] (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (4) Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/ Yuri Schukin (KAZ)
Purav and Rameez needed to dig deep for overcoming challenge from Hubble and Statham ... After winning the first set Purav and Rameez lost the second ... In match tie-break Hubble and Statham gave big fight but Purav and Rameez kept cool to win this tie-break ... Next they r facing tough challenge of Kazakh pair.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Mysore
[QF] (8) Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA,588) bt (1) Ti CHEN (TPE,301) 62 76(5)
[QF] (7) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,548) bt (4) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,448) 36 62 76(3)
[QF] (3) Vijayant MALIK (IND,443) bt Saketh MYNENI (IND,590) 63 36 61
[QF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,362) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1076) 62 76(5)
Doubles
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 64 64
[SF] Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) bt Venkat IYER (IND)/ Bowen OUYANG (CHN) 75 76(4)
So this week Vijayant proved better in his duel with Saketh ... Also happy for Bala for his first win over Jeevan ... Good friendly rivalry is building between our Indian players ... Good fighting performance by Sidharth in his loss against Vishnu.
