Thursday, June 27, 2013

Tennis News
At Wimbledon 2013, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) 76(6) suspended

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bye
[R1] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) vs Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Sabine Lisicki (GER)
[R1] (15) Leander Paes (IND)/ Saisai Zheng (CHN) bye
[R1] (2) Horia Tecau (ROU)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bye

Mixed doubles draw is out ... Again Sania is in top seedings with her new partner, Romanian Horia Tecau ... Rohan is sticking with his Chinese partner Jie Zheng ... Leander is with new Chinese partner Saisai Zheng ... Mahesh is back with his old partner Daniela Hantuchova after few years gap ... Sania, Lee and Mahesh r in same draw and face each other from round three ... Our seeded pairs having first round bye so only Mahesh-Daniela playing first round against tricky pairing of Mark Knowles and Sabine Lisicki.

Radek played in this match with his hamstring injury ... Lee and Radek won the first set in tie-break before match suspended due to rain.

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At $15K+H Spain F18 Futures, Palma Del Rio

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,702) l (6) Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol (ESP,268) 67(0) 62 16

Ramkumar fought hard in first two sets but failed to overcome challenge of top-270 Gutierrez-Ferrol in the final set ... After losing the first set in one-sided tie-break Ramkumar dominated the second set and won it with double break.
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At $10K Germany F7 Futures, Roemerberg (clay)

[R2] (8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,531) l (WC) Oscar Otte (GER,1196) 36 2-2 Retd.

Aargh, hate when our player get injured ... :-(
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Delhi, India

Singles Quarter Finals
Eetee Maheta (IND) bt Shreya Pasricha (IND) 62 64
(8) Natasha Palha (IND) bt (Q) Ambika Pande (IND) 62 61
(6) Shweta Rana (IND) bt (3) Rishika Sunkara (IND) 16 60 61
(2)Ankita Raina (IND) bt (5) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) 46 63 61

Expected results other than upset win by Shweta Rana over Rishika ... Ankita had a slow start against Prarthana but she recovered after losing the first set.
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At $10K USA F17 Futures, Rochester, New York

[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,342) l (SE) Jason Tahir (USA,1252) 46 57

Sanam made quiet return on tour in US futures ... This was his first match after coming out of 2/3 months back injury break and match was tough against American player ... Tahir was last future's semi-finalist so this was tough match for Sanam against in-form player.

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