Friday, August 10, 2012

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

[R2] (5) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Milos Raonic (CAN)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) w/o (back strain to Troicki)

[QF] (5) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (3) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Lee and Jurgen r in the quarters as they received walkover ... In the quarters they r facing 3rd seed Polish pair.
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At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan

[SF] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) l (5) Farrukh Dustov (UZB,354) 36 16

Doubles
[F] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR)/Ivan Sergeyev (UKR) 46 67(1)

Balaji's excellent run ended against Uzbek's Davis cupper and regular challenger player Farrukh Dustov ... Farrukh controlled match from the start ... He broke 2 times Balaji in both sets for comfortable win ... Very creditable performance by Balaji to reached his first challenger semi-final as an qualifier on red clay.

Vishnu and Divij failed to lift tile against Ukrainian pair ... In the first set Ukrainians were up by 2 breaks then our pair take back one break but Ukrainians hold one break advantage to win it ... In the second set Ukrainians proved too strong in tie-break.

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,...