Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Tennis News
At 2012 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England

Doubles - Group B
(6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (4) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 63 57 10-5

Mahesh and Rohan scored much needed win against Lindstedt and Tecau in match tie-break ... This was their first win in Group B ... In their last group match they r facing 2nd seed Nestor and Mirnyi ... Winner between them will qualify for the semis.
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At $125K Royal Indian Open, Pune, India

[R2] (WC) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,708) l (7) Elina Svitolina (UKR,156) 36 06

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Anushka Bhargava (IND)/ Sofia Shapatava (GEO) l Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)/ Kurumi Nara (JPN) 26 16
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l (2) Nina Bratchikova (RUS)/ Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 36 36

[QF] Prerna Bhambri (IND)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) l (4) Julia Glushko (ISR)/ Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA) 16 36

As expected tough outing for Rutuja ... Happy to see when she managed to win 3 games in the first set against talented Ukrainian but Svitolina proved too strong for Rutuja in the second.

Indian challenge got over with our doubles pairs losses in their respective matches ... Rutuja's win over top-400 type Korean So-Ra Lee was highlight of the tournament for us.

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At $50K Loughborough Challenger, Great Britain

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Niels Desein (BEL)/ Peter Torebko (GER) 63 63

Another straight sets comfortable win for Divij and Purav ... With this win they r in the semis.
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At $10K Thailand F5, Phuket

[R2] (2) N Sriram Balaji (IND,327) l Chuhan Wang (CHN,782) 46 26

Poor loss for Bala ... He need to take break from the tour and regroup his game.

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