Friday, April 26, 2013

Tennis News
At $795K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany (red clay)

[QF] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Liezel Huber (USA)/ Janette Husarova (SVK) 75 64

[SF] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (WC) Angelique Kerber (GER)/ Andrea Petkovic (GER)

Sania and Bethanie in the semis ... They scored straight sets victory over Huber and Husarova in well contested match ... Next they r facing local wild-card pair.
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At 2013 Junior Davis Cup (B16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Quarter Finals
(4) India bt China 2-0

Garvit BATRA bt Ting-Hui ZHANG 63 62
Sumit NAGAL bt Yi-Zhou LIU 62 60
Sumit NAGAL/ Garvit BATRA vs Yi-Zhou LIU/ Ting-Hui ZHANG

Semi Finals
(4) India l (1) Korea 0-2

Garvit BATRA l Duck Hee LEE 26 36
Sumit NAGAL l Seong Chan HONG 16 06

Boys won their singles matches comfortably against Chinese opponents ... With this Indian boys qualify for u16 Davis cup World group.

Their semi-final was important for getting seeding at World group ... Top seed Koreans proved too strong for our boys as they managed to win only 6 games in two matches ... That also means our only single team will be seeded in World group, u14 boys.

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At 2013 Junior Fed Cup (G16) - Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying, Gimcheon, Korea

Play-Off 09-16
(3) India bt (2) Chinese Taipei

Vanshika SAWHNEY bt En-Pei HUANG 76(5) 64
Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Ya-Ting CHANG 36 64 63
Pranjala YADLAPALLI/ Vanshika SAWHNEY vs En-Pei HUANG/ Yi-Chi MA

Girls won their match against 2nd seed Chinese Taipei ... Pranjala scored comeback win over Taipei #1 Ya-Ting Chang.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Lucknow

Semi Finals
(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (4) Shweta RANA (IND) 64 61
(8) Emi MUTAGUCHI (JPN) bt (3) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) 63 61

Ankita is in her fourth final in a row with comfortable win but young former top-50 junior Japanese Emi is looking in good form.

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