Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Tennis News
At €4M Madrid Open, Spian (WTA Premier)

[QF] (5) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE) 57 16

Sania and Bethanie failed to continue with their good form and lost in straight sets against Pavlyuchenkova and Safarova.
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At $125K Kunming Challenger, China,

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 46 63 10-7

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Tatsuma Ito (JPN) w/o

Divij and Purav scored excellent fighting comeback win over Taiwani pair of Hsin-Han Lee and Hsien-Yin Peng ... In the quarters they receive lucky break as their opponents gave walkover due to broken tooth of Ito.
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At $50K Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,370) bt (2) Amir Weintrub (ISR,185) 64 57 62

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,370) vs Denis Matsukevitch (RUS,607)

Doubles
[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (3) Radu Albot (MDA)/ Oleksandr Nedovyesov (UKR) 26 06

Prakash played to his potential and scored upset win over top-200 Israeli Amir Weintrub in thee sets ... After winning the first set Ka$h lost the second set but made excellent comeback and won the final set with double break ... In the quarters he is facing Russian 600+ ranked Denis Matsukevitch.

But he lost doubles match with Vishnu in one sided match against third seed.

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At $15K India F5 Futures, Rohtak

Singles Second Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (WC) Sagar AHUJA (IND) 76(4) 61
(5) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND) 61 61
(4) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 64 26 62
(6) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) bt (WC) Saurabh PATIL (IND) 60 61
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 62 63
(3) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 60 63
(Q) Anvit BENDRE (IND) bt (Q) Arpit SHARMA (IND) 63 64
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (WC) Sagar MANJANNA (IND) 61 60

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Arvind Vishnu BESTHA (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 63 62
Lakshit SOOD (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) 63 64
Kunal ANAND (IND)/ Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 36 63 12-10
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Kirksteen REBUYAS (PHI) 60 62

Happy to see young Anvit Bendre take advantage of this weak draw ... Otherwise all expected results.

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