Monday, July 01, 2013

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2013, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R3] (8) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Julien Knowle (AUT) bt Jesse Levine (CAN)/ Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 62 64 36 64
[R3] (14) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt (3) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 64 46 76(5) 62
[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt (15) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 64 62 64
[R3] (6) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Shuko Aoyama (JPN)/ Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 26 63 26

[QF] (8) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Julien Knowle (AUT) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
[QF] (14) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (6) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN)
[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs (11) Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt Robert Farah (COL)/ Darija Jurak (CRO) 76(6) 75

[R3] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) vs Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Katalin Marosi (HUN)

Rohan gave winning start for Indians with his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin ... They won the first set breaking Peya-Soares in 10th game ... In the second set they lost their service game in 5th game and that was enough for Peya-Soares to won this set ... In the third set both pairs played solid tennis holding their respective service games ... In tie-break Rohan-Edouard take mini-break in 3rd point and kept that mini-break advantage for winning this set ... After winning this set they dominated the fourth set against third seeds and won it with double break ... Big upset win for Rohan-Edouard against in-form 3rd seed Peya-Soares in 2 hours and 20 minutes ... In the quarter final Rohan-Edouard r facing 6th seed Robert Lindstedt-Daniel Nestor.

Solid start for Mahesh-Julien against Canadian pair ... They broke Canadians in 3rd and 7th games for winning the first set ... In the second set also Mahesh-Julien take early break in third game and kept that advantage for winning this set ... Canadian pair fought back to win the third set with an early break but Mahesh-Julien kept their cool ... They won the fourth set with a single break and completed victory in two hours and five minutes ... Now Really tough match against top-seed Bryans.

Sania-Liezel faced disappointing loss against unseeded pair of Japanese Aoyama and South African Scheepers ... In this match Sania-Liezel failed to take advantage of multiple break point chances ... They had 14 chances and converted only 3 ... Other hand Aoyama-Scheepers had 7 chances and they converted 6 ... Aoyama-Scheepers won the first set with double break from 2 break point chances but Sania-Liezel failed to convert single break point from 6 chances ... In the second set Sania-Liezel converted 2 break point from 7 chances for winning this set and Aoyama-Scheepers converted 1 from 1 ... Aoyama-Scheepers dominated the final set when they converted three from four break point chance and Sania-Liezel converted one from one.

Leander-Radek started on wrong foot as they lost their service game in 1st game but they fought back well in the set ... They broke Kubot-Matkowski twice before winning the first set ... Lee-Radek dominated the second set and won it with double break after breaking Polish pair in 3rd and 5th games ... In the third set Lee-Radek saved a break point in 6th game on their serve and immediately broke Polish pair in 7th game to take 4-3 lead ... After that Lee-Radek kept this one break advantage and won this match in one hour and fifty one minutes ... Dominating performance from Lee-Radek against this Polish pair ... So with that our three teams are in the quarter-finals ... In the quarters they r facing Zimo-Benneteau.

In mixed doubles Rohan-Jie had very close match against Farah-Jurek ... In the first set Rohan-Jie take break in 11th game but they failed to hold their serve when serving for the set ... They needed to put all their experience to won tight tie-break ... In the second set also both pairs hold their respective service games till 10 th game ... Again Rohan-Jie broke Farah-Jurek in 11th game but this time Rohan-Jie hold their service game and completed victory ... In round three they r facing unseeded European pair Brunstrom and Marosi.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, Illinois, USA

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,417) l (4) Tim Smyczek (USA,120) 46 61 16
[R1] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,136) vs (Q) Sekou Bangoura (USA,612)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,281) bt (WC) Dennis Nevolo (USA,590) 46 61 62

Doubles
[R1] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jack Sock (USA) bt Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Eric Quigley (USA) 67(1) 76(4) 10-8
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) vs (4) Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA)/ Erik Chvojka (CAN)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Adam Feeney (AUS) vs Bradley Klahn (USA)/ Donald Young (USA)

Saketh started his challenger journey with a win in his first match ... He had local wild-card player, who had crowd support and familiar with the court ... Saketh lost the first set but after that he lost only three games for winning the match ... Next Saketh can face Buji if Buji wins his first round against qualifier.

This was tough match for Yuki after his almost 10 weeks injury break but Yuki performed lot better than expectation ... He lost the first set with a single break but fought back and won the second set comfortably with double break ... In the final set Smyczek take control from the start and he won it comfortably with double break.

Buji-Jack stretched to fullest by Bangoura-Quigley in their doubles match ... First two sets went to tie-breaks as both pairs won a set ... Buji-Jack needed to use their all experience for winning the match tie-break..

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At $125K+H Sparkassen Open 2013, Braunschweig, Germany (red clay)

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Philipp Marx (GER)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 76(4) 63

Divij and Purav continues with their good form ... They scored straight sets win over tricky experienced pair on the clay ... Good start in this big challenger for them.

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