Thursday, November 15, 2012

Tennis News

Rohan Bopanna announced that he will be partnering American WR #44 Rajeev Ram in 2013 season ... I think this will be a good pairing as Rajeev is very good doubles players with nice touch near the net ... Other hand Mahesh Bhupathi will be partnering Canadian WR #5 Daniel Nestor.
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At $50K Yokohama Challenger, Japan

[R1] (PR) Prakash Amritraj (IND,806) l (5) Hiroki Moriya (JPN,186) 67(3) 63 06

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS) 60 62
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) 36 67(4)

[QF] (PR) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) bt Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) 57 64 10-6

[SF] (PR) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) vs Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA)/ Matteo Viola (ITA)

Prakash played excellent match against top-300 Moriya ... He was unlucky to lost the tie-break of the first set but Prakash fought back to win the second ... In the third set Moriya take advantage of Prakash's tiredness.

But in doubles Prkash is in the semis with his Austrian partner Philipp Oswald ... After comfortably winning the first round they needed fightback in the quarters after a set down against Kondo and Yi, who upset 3rd seed Indian pair Divij and Purav in the first round ... After winning the second set they won match tie-break with double mini-break ... In the semis they r facing unseeded Italian pair who upset 2nd seed in the quarters.

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