Monday, August 06, 2012

Tennis News
At $3.22M Rogers Cup - ATP World Tour Masters, Toronto, Canada

[R1] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bye
[R1] (5) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bye

This week Leander is playing with Melzer instead of Radek and they r 5th seed.
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At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan

[Q3] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) bt (8) Sergei Krotiouk (RUS,615) 76(6) 62

[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) vs (WC) Vaja Uzakov (UZB,1124)

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jaan-Frederik Brunken (GER) l (4) Michal Konecny (CZE)/ Denis Matsukevitch (RUS) 67(6) 61 3-10

Sriram Balaji qualified for main-draw after scoring win over futures type experienced Russian player ... After winning the first set in tie-break Sriram Balaji won the second set comfortably ... In main-draw he is facing local wild-card player.

Sriram Balaji and his German partner lost against 4th seed pair ... After losing the first set in tie-break Balaji and Brunken won the second set comfortably but in match tie-break 4th seed pair proved strong for them.

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At $15K Great Britain F13 Futures,

[R1] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,464) vs (Q) Tom Burn (GBR,808)

Somdev is starting his comeback on professional tour from British futures.

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,...