Thursday, September 06, 2012

Tennis News
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA

Men's Doubles
[QF] (5) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Filip Polasek (SVK) 62 64

[SF] (5) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (6) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)

Boys Doubles
[R1] Shotaro Goto (JPN)/ Sumit Nagal(IND) l Anton Desyatnik (RUS)/ Karen Khachanov(RUS) 36 46

Lee and Radek gave clinical performance to completed victory in straight sets ... Yesterday they won the first set and were up with a break in the second ... In the semis they r facing solid Spanish pairing 6th seed Granollers and Lopez.
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At $50K Shanghai-1 Challenger, China

[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,402) bt (6) Yuki Bhambri (IND,188) 76(4) 16 62

[QF] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,402) bt (1) Yen-Hsun Lee (TPE,80)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) l (WC) Xin Gao (CHN)/ Zhe Li (CHN) 76(2) 46 6-10

Excellent win by Sanam over an erratic Yuki ... In the first set both players broke other's service twice but Sanam ake importnat mini-break for winning this set ... In the second set Yuki broke Sanam twice and won this set ... In decider Sanam broke Yuki twice to completed good win ... Yuki struggled with his serve and made 9 double faults ... Next Sanam having tough match against top-seed and WR #80 Yen-Hsun Lee.

Turned to be disappointing tournament for Vishnu ... He lost in the first round of doubles also ... They won the first set in tie-break against local pair but lost the second set with service break ... In match tie-break from 6-all Chainese pair won next 4 points for upset win.

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At $15K Iran F2 Futures, Esfahan (clay)

[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,375) l (7) Sarvar Ikramov (UZB,661) 16 36
[QF] (5) N.Vijay Sundar Prasanth (IND,633) l Issam Al Tawil (SYR,1500) 46 57
[QF] (4) Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND,492) l (8) Shahin Khaledan (IRI,1284) 36 62 06

Doubles
[SF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) bt Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) 75 76(6)

[F] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (IND) vs Sarvar Ikramov (UZB)/ Sergey Shipilov (UZB)

After dominating first week our players failed in this week's futures ... Shocking one-sided loss for Balaji considering his form ... Also Vijay Sundar and Ranjeet lost their respective matches.

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