Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Tennis News
At Asia-Pacific Australian Open Wildcard Play-Off, Nanjing, China

[Q4] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,360) bt Yuqing Ning (CHN,UNR) 62 57 64

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,360) vs (WC) Ze Zhang (CHN,154)
[R1] (WC) Sriram Balaji (IND,321) vs Di Wu (CHN,185)
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,272) vs (WC) Hsin Han Lee (TPE,817)
[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,179) vs (WC) Farukh Dustov (UZB,231)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bye
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (Q) Zhaoyi Cao (CHN)/ Andy Lau (HKG) 63 61
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Yuqing Ning (CHN)/ Zhuoyang Qiu (CHN) 62 62

[R1] Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l Ting Li (CHN)/ Qiang Wang (CHN) 67(3) 26

[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) vs (WC) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN)
[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (4) Danai Udomchoke (THA)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE)
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Di Wu (CHN)/ Zhizhen Zhang (CHN)

Sanam need three sets to book his place in the main-draw ... Vishnu and Yuki having winnable first round matches ... Bala and Sanam r facing local favorite ... In doubles our men's pairs started with comfortable win but their real test will start from quarter-finals.
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At €550K Erste Bank Open, Vienna, Austria

[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,534) l (WC) Ernests Gulbis (LAT,155) 67(6) 36

Somdev wasted 2 set points in tie-break leading 6-4 before losing it ... In the second set Somi was break down at 2-4 but he broke back in 7th game to make it 3-4 ... Gulbis again broke him in 8th game and then hold to complete the victory.
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At $25K Lagos Women's ITF Tournament, Nigeria
[R2] Rishika SUNKARA (IND,631) l (5) Cristina DINU (ROU,301) 64 46 16

Doubles
[R1] Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) bt Sofia Dmitrieva (RUS)/ Alexandra Riley (USA) 63 64

[QF] Ester Masuri (ISR)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) vs (4) Keren Shlomo (ISR)/ Jasmin Steinherr (GER)
[QF] Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) vs (1) Nina Bratchikova (RUS)/ Margarita Lazareva (RUS)

Rishika started well winning the first set but after that Romanian Dinu produced strong comeback to win the match.

Kyra and her doubles partner had a winning start in doubles ... ext they r facing top-seed Russian pair.

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