Saturday, June 08, 2013

Tennis News
At €780K Queens Open, London, Great Britain

[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,314) l Jamie Baker (GBR,294) 36 46
[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,UNR) bt Robert Carter (GBR,1295) 75 60

[Q2] Rohan Bopanna (IND,UNR) bt (7) John-Patrick Smith (AUS,225) 63 75

Prakash take bold move to play Queen's open qualifying but lost in the first round against Brit ... Other hand expected winning start for Rohan against local player ... Next Rohan faced top-225 Aussie player Smith in the second qualifying round and he again showed his abilities of playing on the grass ... He scored straight sets win and earned ATP singles ranking points after almost 2 years.
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At $100K+H Caltanissetta Challenger, Italy (red clay)

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) l Dusan Lajovic (SRB,155) 16 36

Somdev played his bad match of this week against Dusan ... In the first set Buji was making too many UFEs and lost his serve in 2nd and 4th games, 0-5 ... At last he hold in 6th game before losing the set ... In the second set broke Buji in 3rd game to lead 2-1 ... He again broke Buji in 9th game for comfortable win.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[F] (Q) Ankita Raina (IND,455) l Sabina Sharipova (UZB,363) 36 36

Sharipova ended Ankita's dream run with straight sets victory but still creditable performance by Ankita, who reached in the final as an qualifier.
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At $10K India F7 Futures, Chennai

Singles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 67(6) 64 60

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 62 67(5) 10-5

Balaji scored much required win over Jeevan to lift the title ... After losing the first set in tie-break he made solid comeback to win the second ... Then dominated the third set for his first singles title of the year.

Bala lifted doubles title with Jeevan beating 2nd seed pair in match tie-break ... So with that Bala won double crown this week.

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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[SF] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) bt (4) Takuto NIKI (JPN,635) 64 76(4)

[F] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) vs Masato SHIGA (JPN,995)

More than expected tighter win for Saketh but he is in the final and facing his 5th Japanese opponent of the week.

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