Thursday, November 01, 2012

Tennis News
At €2.95M BNP Paribas Masters, Paris, France

[R2] (6) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (WC) Josselin Ouanna (FRA)/ Nicolas Renavand (FRA) 67(5) 46
[R2] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (WC) Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 60 64

[QF] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Mahesh and Rohan scored comfortable win over French wild-card pair and keep their hopes alive for qualifying in ATP Tour Finals ... In the quarters they r facing Poles and winner will qualify for ATP Tour Finals grabbing last spot.

Lee lost against French wild-card pair with Jurgen Melzer.

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At $75K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[R2] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,733) bt (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN,337) 46 75 61

[QF] (WC) Somdev DevVarman (IND,733) vs (8) Denis Kudla (USA,164)

Another excellent comeback win by Somi in 2+ hours match ... After losing the first set Somi was a break down in the second before excellent fight back ... Like the way he dominated the final set against young Japanese ... Next Somi is facing 8th seed American Denis Kudla, last year here Somi retired in the third set against same opponent before his long injury/ rehab break.
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At $15K India F14 Futures, Pune

[QF] (1) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,299) bt (7) Mate PAVIC (CRO,467) 62 61
[QF] (4) Saketh MYNENI (IND,374) bt (5) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,398) 76(5) 62
[QF] Prakash AMRITRAJ (IND,806) bt (3) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE,368) 76(4) 61
[QF] (8) Nicolas REISSIG (AUT,504) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,328) 64 26 64

Doubles
[SF] (1) Saket Myneni (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (3) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 64 76(5)
[SF] (2) N Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arun Prakash Rajagopalan (IND) bt (4) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Nicolas Reissig (AUT) 76(7) 76(3)

Prakash continued with his good run and is in the semis ... Saketh showed his upperhand against Jeevan with another win, he is 4-0 up against him in win-loss record ... Balaji failed to overcome challenge from Austrian.

Last week's repeat final in the doubles.

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