Sunday, July 14, 2013

Tennis News

At $638K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

Doubles
[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Emilio Gomez (ECU)/ Michael Quintero (COL)

Lucky break on their first ATP tournament together for Purav-Divij as they r seeded and facing wild-card pair.
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At $50K Binghamton Challenger, New York, USA

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,413) vs (5) Bradley Klahn (USA,162)
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,338) vs Dino Marcan (CRO,409)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,266) vs (7) Malek Jaziri (TUN,176)
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,308) vs Mischa Zverev (GER,146)

Doubles
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Dennis Novikov (USA)

Saketh and Prakash needs good outing in this challenger to qualify for US open qualifying but both players facing seeded players in the first round ... Yuki is also facing in-form 5th seed Bradley Klahn ... Sanam is facing lower ranked Croatian but Sanam is coming out of injury so he is still not fully match fit.
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At $50K Eskisehir Challenger, Turkey

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,331) vs Jules Marie (FRA,272)

Doubles
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Alexander Jakupovic (GRE) vs (WC) Efe Yurtkan (TUR)/ Cem Ilkel (TUR)

Balaji is facing Frenchman in the first round and in the doubles with Alexander Jakupovic, they r facing local wild-card pair.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

Singles First Round
(1) Ankita Raina (IND) bt Sanya Madan (IND) 61 60
Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) bt Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) 36 61 2-0 Retd.
(WC) Vaniya Dangwal (IND) bt (Q) Smriti Joon (IND) 64 62
(6) Eetee Maheta (IND) bt (WC) Arushi Bhasin (IND) 60 60
(4) Nidhi Chilumula (IND) bt Damini Sharma (IND) 61 61
(Q) Shruti Dhawan (IND) bt Amrita Mukherjee (IND) 60 3-1 Retd.
Simran Kaur Sethi (IND) bt (Q) Ambika Pande (IND) 60 Retd.
(7) Natasha Palha (IND) bt Sharon Sanchana Paul (IND) 64 61
(5) Shweta Rana (IND) bt (Q) Sai Samhitha Chamarthi (IND) 62 63
Bhuvana Kalva (IND) bt (WC) Nishtha Dudeja (IND) 61 60
(Q) Kanika Vaidya (IND) bt (WC) Namita Bal (IND) 60 60
Nehel Sahni (IND) bt (3) Prerna Bhambri (IND) 46 63 64
(8) Naomi Totka (HUN) bt (Q) Anjana Kompally (IND) 62 61
Sharmada Balu (IND) bt (Q) Aandrita Deb (IND) 64 62
(Q) Sneha Padamata (IND) bt Shivika Burman (IND) 76(7) 62
(2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt Manya Nagpal (IND) 63 61

Shocking loss of 3rd seed Prerna Bhambri in the first round though in this match she was struggling with right shoulder injury ... Other upsets were losses of Shivika Burman and Smriti Joon.
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At $10K Turkey F28 Futures, Istanbul

[R1] Abhijeet Tiwari (IND,1303) l (1) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA,296) 26 16
[R1] (4) Karunuday Singh (IND,619) l Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO,1084) 36 26
[R1] (WC) Srikar Alla (IND,1613) l Romain Bauvy (FRA,1141) 63 67(5) 16

Disappointed outing for Karunuday in Turkey futures with other Indians.

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