Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Tennis News
At The Wimbledon 2012, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R3] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) L Serena Williams (USA)/ Venus Williams (USA) 46 36

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Mona Barthel (GER) 63

[R3] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt (6) Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA) 60 63
[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Victoria Azarenka (BLR)

[QF] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) vs (2) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

Expected start for Lee and Elena ... They won the first set with double break ... Lee and Elena broke Fisher and Barthel in 8th game and that was enough to win the second set ... Next they r facing Belarus pair, who will be top-seed in mixed doubles at London Olympics.

Rohan and his Chinese partner Jie Zheng entered into the quarters with very dominating win ... In the first set their 6th seed Italian opponents failed to win a single game and managed little decent score on the scoreboard in the second ... Next in the quarters they r facing 2nd seed American pair.

Williams defeated Sania and Bethanie in the straight sets ... In both sets they take crucial single break and scored somewhat comfortable win.

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At $125K+H Sparkassen Open, Braunschweig, Germany (clay

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) l Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 46 26

Purav and Alessandro lost in straight sets against Heliovaara and Molchanov.
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At $15K Indonesia F2 Futures, Jakarta

[R2] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,417) l (SE) Dong Whee Choi (KOR,UNR) 67(1) 1-2 Retd.
[R2] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,480) l Elbert Sie (INA,1062) 60 57 16

Horrible results ... Jeevan retired after losing the first set in tie-break ... Ranjeet lost his match against 1000+ Indonesian after winning the first set 6-0.

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,...