Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Tennis News
At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

Doubles
[R3] (7) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (11) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE) 67(0) 5-3 Retd.

Mixed Doubles
[R2] Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (8) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 57 76(1) 2-10

Sania and Bethanie lost one-sided tie-break but they fought well and were double break up at 5-2 ... But after losing their own service game due to Bethanie's groin injury they conceded the match ... Tough luck.

Leander-Jelena lost in well fought match against Huber-Melo in MXD ... After losing the first set our pair fought back and won the second set after dominating tie-break ... But surprisingly they failed to create challenge in match tie-break and lost it winning only 2 points ... So with this Indian challenge got over in this French open ... Very poor outing for our all doubles pairs as they failed to cross third round.

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At $100K+H Caltanissetta Challenger, Italy (red clay)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Dusan Lajovic (SRB) l (4) Renzo Olivo (ARG)/ Marco Trungelliti (ARG) 67(7) 67(4)

Somi and his Serbian partner lost their first round match against 4th seed Argentine pair but both sets went in tie-breaks.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[R2] (Q) Ankita RAINA (IND,455) vs (5) Teodora MIRCIC (SRB,279)

Doubles
[R1] Sharmada BALU (IND)/ Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) bt Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Yuuki Tanaka (JPN) w/o
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) l (3) Veronika KAPSHAY (UKR)/ Teodara MIRCIC(SRB) 36 64 6-10

[QF] Sharmada BALU (IND)/ Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) vs (1) Valentyna IVAKHNENKO (UKR) / Kateryna KOZLOVA (UKR)

Ankita is facing 5th seed Serbian girl in the second round.
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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[R1] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) bt (WC) Jun ITO (JPN,UNR) 63 64

[R2] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) vs Hiromasa OKU (JPN,1551)

Expected straights sets win for Saketh ... Next he is facing another Japanese opponent.
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At $10K Spain F16 Futures, Santa Margarida de Montbui (Barcelona)

[R1] (Q) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1044) l (1) Steven DIEZ (CAN,242) 26 06
[R1] (Q) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND,980) l Nick LINDAHL (AUS,859) 57 67(4)
[R1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,800) l (2) Jose CHECA-CALVO (ESP,276) 36 26

This week Ashwin and Mohit Mayur qualified for main-draw but all had tough draw ... Mohit Mayur and Ramkumar faced top 2 seeds players in their respective matches and they lost those matches without much fight ... Ashwin faced former top-200 Aussie player Nick Lindahl and he gave creditable fight but lost in tight two sets.

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