Thursday, May 02, 2013

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

[QF] (2) Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL) 36 36

One sided loss for Lee and Jurgen against Colombians in 45 minutes ... Our pair failed to create a single break point chance but faced 4 break points and Colombians broke them thrice ... This year Lee is still searching for solid partnership.
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At $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger, South Africa,

[SF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Michal Przysiezny (POL)/ Denis Zivkovic (USA) 64 64
[SF] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) bt (3) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Goran Tosic (MNE) 63 26 10-5

Our both pairs scored contrasting win over their respective opponents ... So final is between Indian citizens against NRIs ... I m rooting for Divij and Purav.
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At $15K India F4 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Quarter Finals
(7) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) 64 60
(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (Q) Rakshit RISHI (IND) 75 60
(4) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 76(5) 64
(5) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) 62 60

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 62 61
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (4) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) 62 36 11-9

Shocking loss of Yuki against Vijayant, hoping no injury issue .. Saketh scored dominating win over Balaji ... Interesting semis between Vishnu and Saketh, though Saketh is favorite.

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