Thursday, July 18, 2013

Tennis News

At $638K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 36 63 10-6

[SF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (1) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL)

Another good win for Divij-Purav against similar ranked pair ... After losing the first set they made excellent comeback winning the second set ... Divij-Purav kept momentum to win match tie-break comfortably ... In the semis they r facing tough opponents in local top-seed pair.
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At $50K Binghamton Challenger, New York, USA

[R2] Sanam Singh (IND,336) bt (3) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,148) 64 62

[QF] Sanam Singh (IND,336) vs (5) Bradley Klahn (USA,162)

Doubles
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l (4) Jarmere Jenkins (USA)/ Austin Krajicek (USA) 36 62 7-10

Much needed win for Sanam and that also against top-150 Sugita ... So with this dominating win Sanam kept his upper hand over Sugita before this they faced each other at 2010 Asian Games ... That time also Sanam defeated Sugita ... Next in the quarters he is facing in-form Bradley Klahn.

Sanam-Yuki failed to keep winning momentum in the doubles ... After losing the first set they made strong comeback but failed to won match tie-break.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Ankita Raina (IND) bt (6) Eetee Maheta (IND) 61 64
(7) Natasha Palha (IND) bt (4) Nidhi Chilumula (IND) 62 26 64
(Q) Kanika Vaidya (IND) bt (5) Shweta Rana (IND) 62 75
(2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt Sharmada Balu (IND) 62 36 64

Kanika keep going her excellent recent performances and enter into the semis with straight sets win over Shweta ... Natasha also scored upset win over Nidhi in thee sets ... Top two seeds joins them in the semis with contrasting win.

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