Thursday, June 13, 2013

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

[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Nicolas Mahut (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) w/o

Mahesh-Rohan won match as French pair gave them walkover.
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At $75K Nottingham-2 Challenger, Great Britain (grass)

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,140) bt (5) Jack Sock (USA,102) 16 67(5) 63

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,140) vs Donald Young (USA,157)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Go Soeda (JPN)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA)

Yesterday match was suspended due to rain when Buji was leading 3-2 in the third and 30-all on Sock's serve ... Today immediately Buji broke him to lead 4-2 ... After that both players hold their respective service games comfortably and within 15 minutes Buji completed his match ... Next he is facing Donald Young in the quarters.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, Coimbatore

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) 67(3) 63 75
(3) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (7) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 62 61
(5) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt (4) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA) 62 57 63
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (Q) Abdullah SHAIKH (IND) 62 60

Doubles Semi Finals
Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 62 60
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 64 76(3)

This is Karunuday's 4th semi-final in fourth tournament in a row ... Surprising tough match for Bala.

Surprising loss of top-seed pair of Jeevan-Balaji, who were champion in last two weeks, against unseeded pair ... This loss mostly due to tiredness of Bala after his long singles quarter-final match against Taipei player.

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