Tennis News
At $2.2M Rogers Cup - WTA Premier, Toronto, Canada
[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (7) Julia Goerges (GER)/ Kveta Peschke (CZE) 76(1) 63
[R2] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)/ Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
Good win by Sania and Bethanie against 7th seed pair ... After winning the first set in tie-break our pair won the second more comfortably ... Next they r facing Slovakian pair.
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At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan
[QF] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) bt (8) Andrej Martin (SVK,259) 64 63
[SF] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) vs (5) Farrukh Dustov (UZB,354)
Doubles
[SF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Riccardo Bellotti (ITA)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT) 63 36 10-3
[F] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR)/Ivan Sergeyev (UKR)
Bala scored back to back top-300 with another upset win over Slovak Andrej Martin and enter into his first challenger semi-final ... This was Bala's 6th win in a row, considering 3 qualifying wins, and those r on clay ... Very rare for Indian player ... In the semis he is facing local favorite Farrukh Dustov ... Until last week Farrukh was ranked #235 ... In this week's ranking he dropped by 119 places.
In the first set both players were holding their service games until 9th games ... Bala take crucial break in 10th game to win this set ... In the second set Bala broke Martin in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but Martin immediately broke back to make it 1-2 ... Bala immediately broke him in 4th game to take 3-1 lead ... After that Bala hold his service games comfortably to complete very important win.
Our pair won the first set with a single break ... After losing the second set with similar score our top-seed pair won match tie-break comfortably to enter in the final ... Vishnu and Divij r facing unseeded Ukrainian pair in the final.
At $2.2M Rogers Cup - WTA Premier, Toronto, Canada
[R1] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (7) Julia Goerges (GER)/ Kveta Peschke (CZE) 76(1) 63
[R2] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)/ Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)
Good win by Sania and Bethanie against 7th seed pair ... After winning the first set in tie-break our pair won the second more comfortably ... Next they r facing Slovakian pair.
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At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan
[QF] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) bt (8) Andrej Martin (SVK,259) 64 63
[SF] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) vs (5) Farrukh Dustov (UZB,354)
Doubles
[SF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Riccardo Bellotti (ITA)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT) 63 36 10-3
[F] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR)/Ivan Sergeyev (UKR)
Bala scored back to back top-300 with another upset win over Slovak Andrej Martin and enter into his first challenger semi-final ... This was Bala's 6th win in a row, considering 3 qualifying wins, and those r on clay ... Very rare for Indian player ... In the semis he is facing local favorite Farrukh Dustov ... Until last week Farrukh was ranked #235 ... In this week's ranking he dropped by 119 places.
In the first set both players were holding their service games until 9th games ... Bala take crucial break in 10th game to win this set ... In the second set Bala broke Martin in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but Martin immediately broke back to make it 1-2 ... Bala immediately broke him in 4th game to take 3-1 lead ... After that Bala hold his service games comfortably to complete very important win.
Our pair won the first set with a single break ... After losing the second set with similar score our top-seed pair won match tie-break comfortably to enter in the final ... Vishnu and Divij r facing unseeded Ukrainian pair in the final.
