Monday, May 13, 2013

Tennis News
At €3.2M Rome Masters, Italy (red clay)

[R1] (8) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bye
[R1] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bye

Hoping for better Masters for Indian players ... Our both pairs r in bottom draw ... Mahesh-Rohan r in same draw with 4th seed Aisam-Rojer and Lee-Jurgen r in same draw with 2nd seed Granollers-Lopez.
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At $2.36M Rome WTA Premier Tournament, Italy

[R1] (6) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Shuko Aoyama (JPN)/ Liga Dekmeijere (LAT)

Sania and Bethanie r in top-draw with top-seed Italian pair.
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At $75K+H Busan Challenger, Korea

[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)/ Dudi Sela (ISR)

Divij and Purav r 2nd seed at Busan but facing tricky pair in the first round.
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At $50K Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan (Red clay)

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,408) vs Marc Giner (ESP,261)

Doubles
[R1] Ti Chen (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Temur Ismailov (UZB)/ Sergey Shipilov (UZB) 63 16 10-5

This week only Vishnu is playing at Samarkand Challenger ... Facing tough Spanish opponent on the red clay in the first round ... In the doubles he is playing with Ti Chen and in the first round local wild-card pair stretched them to match tie-break.

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