Saturday, September 01, 2012

Tennis News
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA

Women's Doubles
[R2] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Darija Jurak (CRO)/ Katalin Marosi (HUN) 64 62

[R3] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (2) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (3) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) 64 75
[R1] Jie Zheng (CHN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 26 57

[R2] (3) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Abigail Spears (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)

Boys Singles
[Q2] Sumit Nagal (IND,119) bt (11) Hugo Cesar Dojas (BRA,92) 76(3) 75

[R1] (Q) Sumit Nagal (IND,119) vs (8) Kaichi Uchida (JPN,8)

Sania and Bethanie scored comfortable win over Jurak and Marosi in straight sets ... Next they r having tough challenge of 2nd seed Italian pair.

Sumit Nagal take early break but Brazilian Dojas broke back to bring the set on serve ... Sumit dominated tie-break to win it comfortably after winning 4 points from last 5 points from 3-2 ... In the second set Dojas take early break but Sumit brough set on the serve after breaking him in 6th game, 3-3 ... Again Dojas broke him in 7th game to take lead ... This time also Sumit broke back and after that take important break in 12th game to won this match ... With this win young 15 yrs old Sumit qualified for junior main-draw beating two 18 yrs old seeded opponents ... He is having tough maindraw against WR #8 Japanese Kaichi Uchida.

Lee and Elena received tough fight from alternate pairing of Raquel Kops-Jones and Conrad Huey in the first round but they won it in straight sets taking important break in both sets.

This turned to be poor US Open for Rohan ... After losing the first round in men's doubles he and Jie Zheng lost in the first round of mixed doubles ... After losing the first set easily they tried fightback in the second but Anastasia Rodionova and Jean-Julien Rojer take important break to won this match.

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At $50K Shanghai-1 Challenger, China

[Q1] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,402) bt Woong-Sun Jun (KOR,751) 36 61 62
[Q1] Vijayant Malik (IND,485) l (8) Hiroki Kondo (JPN,428) 36 64 16

[Q2] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,402) vs Jaan-Frederik Brunken (GER,519)

Sanam started slowly against Korean Woong-Sun Jun ... But after losing the first set Sanam dominated the match winning next two sets easily ... In the next round he is facing German player.

Vijaant lost against Japanese Kondo ... After losing the first set Vijayant fought back to win the second but Kondo broke him twice to win the final set.

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At $50K Bangkok-1 Challenger, Thailand

[SF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Dudi Sela (ISR) / Harol Srugo (ISR) 61 64

[F] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (3) Hsin-Han LEE (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin PENG (TPE)

Vishnu and Divij scored very comfortable win over Israeli pair and book their place in the final against 3rd seed Taipei pair.
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At $15K Iran F1 Futures, Esfahan (clay)

Singles Final
(1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,375) bt (6) N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND,633) 63 62

Sriram Balaji scored comfortable win over Vijay Sundar to lift another futures title, this time $15K in Iran on clay ... In both sets he dominated to win it.

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