Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Tennis News
At €468K BMW Open, Munich, Germany (red clay)

[R1] (2) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Christopher Kas (GER)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 62 16 10-6

[QF] (2) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL)

Lee and Jurgen needed match tie-break in their first round win but strong comeback in the match tie-break after losing the second set very easily ... Next they r facing Colombian pair.
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At €468K Portugal Open, Oeiras

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andy Ram (ISR) bt Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) 5-3 Retd.

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andy Ram (ISR) vs (1) Aisam Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean Julien Roger(NED)

Easy passage to the quarter-final after their opponents retired in the first set ... Next match is tricky one against top-seed.
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At $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger, South Africa,

[R2] (2) Rajeev Ram (USA,115) bt (WC) Wayne Montgomery (RSA,UNR) 64 62

[QF] (2) Rajeev Ram (USA,115) vs Mate Pavic (CRO,361)

Doubles
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Fabiano De Paula (BRA)/ Thales Turini (BRA) 63 76(3)
[QF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) bt (1) Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) 75 64

[SF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Michal Przysiezny (POL)/ Denis Zivkovic (USA))
[SF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) vs (3) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Goran Tosic (MNE)

Both pairs traded early breaks in the first set but Prakash and Rajeev take crucial break in 12th game for winning this set ... In the second set only break came in 10th game when top-seeds were serving for staying in the match.

Divij and Purav kept showing consistency in their performance and scored straight sets victory over Brazilian pair.

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At $15K India F4 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Second Round
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Austin KAROSI (USA) 62 61
(7) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)62 61
(Q) Rakshit RISHI (IND) bt (LL) Sagar AHUJA (IND) 63 46 64
(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (Q) Fariz MOHAMMED (IND) 60 61
(6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) 62 62
(4) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 63 76(1)
(5) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 75 62
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 63 63

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Lakshit SOOD (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 36 76(2) 10-8
Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) w/o
(4) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) 61 63
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 75 61

Expected results in the singles and doubles.

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