Thursday, February 28, 2013

Tennis News
At 1.78M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship, UAE

[QF] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) bt (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 46 64 10-8
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Victor Hanescu (ROU)/ Lukas Rosol (CZE) 46 75 10-4

[SF] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) vs Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA)

Rohan and Mahesh scored win in match tie-breaks with their respective partners ... After losing the first set Mahesh and Llodra won the second set ... Mahesh and Llodra won very close match tie-break against 4th seed Poles ... Rohan and Rajeev also lost the first set but fought back to win the second ... They won match tie-break comfortably ... In the semis Rohan and Rajeev r facing Mahesh and Llodra.
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At $50K Sydney 1 Challenger, Australia

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL) 64 64

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Alex Bolt (AUS)/ Nick Kyrgios (AUS)

Good comfortable straight sets victory over All Blacks pair by Purav and Divij ... Next they r facing in-form young Aussie pair in the semis.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F2 Futures, Aktobe

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) l (2) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN) 46 46

With this end of disappointing one week in Kazakh for Yuki.
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At $10K India F1 Futures, Chennai

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Victor CRIVOI (ROU) bt (WC) Elwin ANTONY (IND) 63 61
(4) Thales TURINI (BRA) bt (5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 63 57 60
(3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (7) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 26 61 62
(PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) bt (6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 63 61

Doubles
[SF} (1) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (ALT) Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Petar TOMIC (SRB) 75 64
[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (ALT) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE)/ Chih-Jen HO (TPE) 63 63

Only Jeevan remains in the singles semis ... Other and terrific run from former top-500 young Frencman Tak Khun Wang, who scored another upset win over Indian player.

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