Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Tennis News
At $2.2M Rogers Cup - WTA Premier, Toronto, Canada

[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (7) Julia Goerges (GER)/ Kveta Peschke (CZE)

This week in Canadian premier event Sania and Bethanie r facing 7th seed pair of Goerges and Peschke in the first round.
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At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,292) bt (WC) Sanvar Ikramov (UZB,597) 63 36 62
[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) bt (WC) Vaja Uzakov (UZB,1124) 62 64

[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,292) vs Gerald Melzer (AUT,311)
[R2] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) vs Michal Konecny (CZE,287)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Sergey Shipilov (UZB)/ Nigmat Shofayziev (UZB) 64 62

[QF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)

Vishnu started confidently in this match ... He served 9 aces and lost only 2 points on his serve in the first set ... Vishnu take crucial break in 8th game to win this set ... In the second set Vishnu struggled with his serve and Ikramov take advantage of it ... He broke Vishnu in 4th game to win this second set ... In the final set from 2-all Vishnu won next 4 games, in that he broke Ikramov twice and completed the victory ... Next Vishnu having trcky match against Austrian Gerald Melzer, who upset top-seed Russian Igor Kunitsyn easily.

Balaji take early break and then double that break advantage to won the first set comfortably ... In the second set Balaji take important break in 9th game and that break was enough to win the second set ...Next Balaji having tough match against Czech Michal Konecny, who upset 4th seed Slovenian Kamil Capkovic in the first round.

Easy first round win for our top-seed pair against local wild-card pair.

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,...