Thursday, June 28, 2012

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt (LL) Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ John Peers (AUS) 62 64 62

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bye
[R1] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bye
[R1] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bye

Lee and Radek faced lucky loser Australian pair ... Our pair won the first with double break ... In the second set Lee and Radek take crucial break in 5th game before saving couple of break points on their serves to won it ... Our pair dominated the third set and broke Aussie pair twice and won match comfortably.

In mixed doubles our all players r seeded with their respective partners and having bye in the first round ... Lee and Mahesh r in same draw and can face each other in the quarters.

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At $35K+H Marburg Challenger, Germany (clay)

[QF] Alexander Satschko (GER)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (3) Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL)/ David Skoch (CZE) 46 46

The third seed European pair proved strong for Divij and Satschko.
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At $15K+H Spain F18 Futures, Palma Del Rio

[R2] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,999) l (3) Gerard Granollers-Pujol (ESP,303) 36 57

Doubles
[QF] Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (1) James Cluskey (IRL)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 67(3) 67(6)

Decent match against top-300 for Ramkumar ... In doubles also he gave fighting performance with Mohit Mayur against top-seed.
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At $10K Germany F7 Futures, Roemerberg (clay)

[R1] (7) Vijayant MALIK (IND,465) l (Q) Evgeny Korolev (KAZ,514) 26 06

[R1] (8) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,483) l (Q) Oscar OTTE (GER,1184) 36 16
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,759) l (2) Pierre-Hugues HERBERT (FRA,303) 16 36

Doubles
[QF] Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) l (1) Roman JEBAVY (CZE)/ Maciej SMOLA (POL) 26 63 4-10
[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Yannick HANFMANN (GER)/ Ralf STEINBACH (GER) 46 63 10-1

Expected tough loss for Vijayant against former top-50 player ... In the second round Balaji lost against 18 yrs old German qualifier easily ... Vijay Sundar managed to win only a game in the first set ... In the second set Vijay Sundar was break up early, 2-0, but lost next 5 games ... In 8th game Vijay Sundar saved a match point on Pierre-Hugues's serve before breaking him but failed to hold his own serve in the next game.

In doubles Balaji and Prashanth r in the semis.

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At $15K Indonesia F1 Futures, Jakarta

[R2] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,432) bt Kirati Sirinutwong (THA,1881) 62 61

[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,432) vs Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,1250)

Doubles
[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) l (3) Christopher Rungkat (INA)/ Elbert Sie (INA) 46 36

Expected comfortable win for Jeevan against Thai player ... Next in the quarters he is facing another young Thai player Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul.

But Jeevan and Ranjeet lost in the doubles semis against Indonesian pair.

Table Tennis News

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