Friday, August 31, 2012

Tennis News
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA

Women's Doubles
[R1] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Alberta Brianti (ITA)/ Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 61 61

[R2] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Darija Jurak (CRO)/ Katalin Marosi (HUN)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (6) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Samantha Crawford (USA)/ Mitchell Krueger (USA) 62 64

Very comfortable winning start for Sania and Bethanie, who lost only two games in the match ... After disappointing result in men's doubles Mahesh had a winning start with his new Czech partner in the mixed doubles.
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At $50K Bangkok-1 Challenger, Thailand

[QF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA)/ Kittipong Wachiramanowong (THA) 75 64

[SF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Dudi Sela (ISR) / Harol Srugo (ISR)

Vishnu and Divij entered with straight sets win over local pair ... In the semis they r facing Israeli pair.
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At $15K Iran F1 Futures, Esfahan (clay)

[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,375) bt (4) Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND,492) 62 64
[SF] (6) N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND,633) bt (7) Sarvar Ikramov (UZB,643) 75 64

Doubles Final
(2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) l (1) Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Michal Schmid (CZE) 46 46

So Bala and Vijay Sundar scored straights sets victory to enter in the final ... This must be first singles final between Indians outside India and that's also on clay.

In doubles top-seed Czech pair proved strong for Bala and Ranjeet.

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