Monday, August 26, 2013

Tennis News

Tennis News
At US Open 2013, New York, USA

Doubles
[R1] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) vs Annika Beck (GER)/ Monica Puig (PUR)
[R1] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER) vs Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Vasek Pospisil (CAN)
[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Bradley Klahn (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA)
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Robin Haase (NED)/ Igor Sijsling (NED)

Doubles draws r out, Sania-Jie r in bottome draw and can face 6th seed German Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Czech Kveta Peschke in the third round.

Our all pairs r in top draw with in-form Bryans ... Mahesh and his German partner Philipp Petzschner r having real tough match against Canadian pair of experienced Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil, this can be turnout Mahesh's last men's doubles Grand slam match ... Rohan-Edouard can face top-seed Bryans in quarters ... Lee-Radek r in same draw with Aisam-Rojer but before them they can face 14th seed tricky French pair Michael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut in the third round.

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At $35K+H Como Challenger, Italy

[R1] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Simon Greul (GER)/ Bastian Pashanski (SRB)

Purav is playing with Italian partner in Como challenger.
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At $50K Bangkok-1 Challenger, Thailand

[Q3] (2) Karunuday Singh (IND,713) bt (8) Punn Bodhidutta (THA,2058) 61 62

[R1] (Q) Karunuday Singh (IND,713) vs (4) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,148)

Doubles
[R1] Karunuday Singh (IND)/ Tyler Howchwalt (USA) l Warit Sornbutnark (THA)/ Kittipong Wachiramanowong (THA) 26 46

Without any difficulty Karunuday qualify for main-draw but tough first round against Japanese top-150 Davis cupper.

Other hand started with loss in the doubles.

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At $15K Gabon F2 Futures, Libreville

[R1] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1533) vs Maxime Tchoutakian (FRA,1013)
[R1] Neishit Vakil (IND,1635) vs (Q) Eric Vehovec (CAN,UNR)
[R1] (5) Vishnu Vardhan(IND,681) vs Tinotenda Chanakira (ZIM,2039)
[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(IND,377) vs Adriano Quinti (GER,1592)

Doubles
[R1] Sagar Ahuja (IND)/ Neishit Vakil (IND) vs Phenyo Matong (BOT)/ Stefan Merunka (BIH)
[R1] Medhir Goyal (IND)/ Kawach Samraat (IND) vs (3) Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI)/ Adriano Quinti (GER)
[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs M'lapa Tingou Akomlo (TOG)/ Alexis Klegou (BEN)

This week Vishnu and Jeevan r in different half of the draw.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Taipei City

[R1] (5) Yuki Bhambri(IND,591) vs (Q) Jonathan Chang (USA,UNR)

Good decision of avoiding the doubles ... Winnable first round for Yuki.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

Singles First Round
(1) Ankita Raina (IND) bt Julia Moriarty (AUS) 62 61
(Q) Riya Bhatia (IND) bt (WC) Arushi Bhasin (IND) 64 64
Xi-Yao Wang (CHN) bt (WC) Smriti Joon (IND) 64 63
Hua-Chen Lee (TPE) bt (8) Shweta Rana (IND) 60 3-0 Retd.
Bhuvana Kalva (IND) bt (3) Keren Shlomo (ISR) 61 36 61
(Q) Shivika Burman (IND) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) 64 26 75
Eetee Maheta (IND) bt (WC) Vaniya Dangwal (IND) 63 62
Natasha Palha (IND) bt (7) Prerna Bhambri (IND) 63 75
(5) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bt (Q) Victoria Chahel (IND) 64 60
Mahitha Dadi Reddy (IND) bt (Q) Vineeta Singh (IND) 61 63
Matilda Hamlin (SWE) bt (Q) Thevaia Selavrajoo (MAS) 61 63
(4) Nidhi Chilumula (IND) bt Ho Ching Wu (HKG) 64 61
(6) Akari Inoue (JPN) bt Sai Samhitha Chamarthi (IND) 62 46 60
(Q) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) bt (Q) Chun-Yan Hee (CHN) 62 61
Sharon Sanchana Paul (IND) bt (WC) Simran Kaur Sethi (IND) 64 46 62
(2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt (Q) Sri Vaishnavi Padi Reddy (IND) 5-2 Retd.

Another opportunity for Ankita to win another $10K title ... In the first round superb upset win by Bhuvana Kalva against Israeli 3rd seed Keren Shlomo ... 14 yrs old Pranjala Yadlapalli scored her first win on women's tour when she defeated 30 yrs old Chinese qualifier.

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