Tennis News
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA
[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,189) l Maxime Authom (BEL, 193) 36 63 36
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,473) vs Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP,85)
Yuki had tricky match against in-form Belgian Maxime Authom ... Maxime broke Yuki in 2nd game to take 3-0 lead and kept that advantage to win the first set ... In the second set both players hold their serves till 7th game ... In 8th game Yuki broke Maxime and then hold to win this set ... In the third set Maxime broke Yuki in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that advantage to complete the victory.
Sommy is playing with protected ranking and facing Spanish Hidalgo in the first round ... Decent draw but looking at lack of match fitness I don't have much hope from Sommy.
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At $553K Winston-Salem Open, USA
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) bt Eric Butorac (USA)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) 64 67(3) 10-3
[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) l Pablo Andujar (ESP)/ Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 76(8) 67(4) 4-10
Rohan and Mariusz started with win in match tie-break against good pairing of Butorac and Hanley but lost in the quarters against Andujar and Mayer ... First 2 sets went into tie-breaks but Andujar and Mayer proved lot better in match tie-break.
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At $50K+H Segovia Challenger, Spain
[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Olivier Charroin (FRA) l Julien Obry (FRA)/ Boris Pashanski (SRB) 60 36 5-10
Purav and his French partner lost in the quarters in the match tie-break.
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At Spain F25 $10K Futures,
[R1] (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1257) bt (Q) Pol TOLEDO BAGUE (ESP,1494) 67(5) 60 62
[R2] (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1257) l (2) Joshua MILTON (GBR,422) 26 26
Mohit Mayur needed comeback win against fellow qualifier to earn the point but lost in the second round against 2nd seed British player.
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA
[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,189) l Maxime Authom (BEL, 193) 36 63 36
[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,473) vs Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP,85)
Yuki had tricky match against in-form Belgian Maxime Authom ... Maxime broke Yuki in 2nd game to take 3-0 lead and kept that advantage to win the first set ... In the second set both players hold their serves till 7th game ... In 8th game Yuki broke Maxime and then hold to win this set ... In the third set Maxime broke Yuki in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that advantage to complete the victory.
Sommy is playing with protected ranking and facing Spanish Hidalgo in the first round ... Decent draw but looking at lack of match fitness I don't have much hope from Sommy.
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At $553K Winston-Salem Open, USA
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) bt Eric Butorac (USA)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) 64 67(3) 10-3
[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL) l Pablo Andujar (ESP)/ Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 76(8) 67(4) 4-10
Rohan and Mariusz started with win in match tie-break against good pairing of Butorac and Hanley but lost in the quarters against Andujar and Mayer ... First 2 sets went into tie-breaks but Andujar and Mayer proved lot better in match tie-break.
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At $50K+H Segovia Challenger, Spain
[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Olivier Charroin (FRA) l Julien Obry (FRA)/ Boris Pashanski (SRB) 60 36 5-10
Purav and his French partner lost in the quarters in the match tie-break.
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At Spain F25 $10K Futures,
[R1] (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1257) bt (Q) Pol TOLEDO BAGUE (ESP,1494) 67(5) 60 62
[R2] (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1257) l (2) Joshua MILTON (GBR,422) 26 26
Mohit Mayur needed comeback win against fellow qualifier to earn the point but lost in the second round against 2nd seed British player.
