Thursday, August 01, 2013

Tennis News

At $1.5M Citi Open, Washington, U.S.A

[R3] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,129) l (8) John Isner (USA,20) 57 57

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Begemann (GER) bt (1) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 62 67(4) 10-5

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Begemann (GER) vs Treat Huey (PHI)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR)

John Isner defeated Buji in tight two sets with his powerful serve ... Isner lost only seven points on his serve and in that three points he lost in last game of the match ... While winning NCAA title Buji used strategy of holding his own service game and then try to win tie-breaks ... In this match also Buji applied repeated strategy ... Both players hold their service game till 5-all ... In 11th game Buji made three unforced errors and Isner take advantage to won the first set ... In the second set also repeated same story ... Both players hold their respective service games till 5-all ... This time also Isner broke Buji in 11th game and then converted second match point for straight sets win.

Rohan scored huge upset when he defeated top-seed pair of the tournament Peya-Soares partnering little unknown German Andre Begemann ... Rohan-Andre won the first set comfortably breaking opponents twice but they lost the second set in tie-break ... In match tie-break Rohan-Andre dominated from the start for winning it comfortably ... Next they r facing defending champions Treat Huey and Dominic Inglot.

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At $795K Southern California Open, Carlsbad, CA, USA (WTA Premier)

[R2] Flavia Pennetta (ITA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (4) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 67(2) 46

Sania-Flavia failed to overcome 4th seed pair of Katarina Srebotnik and Jelena Jankovic.
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At $100K Vancouver Challenger, Canada

[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Tatsuma Ito (JPN)/ Hiroki Moriya (JPN) 46 62 8-10

Another disappointing loss against Japanese pair after their ATP title win at Colombia ... Divij was defending bunch of points so this is really bad result ... He will slide out of top-70 in latest updates.
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At $10K USA F21 Futures, Decatur

[R2] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) bt Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA,780) 61 61

[QF] (2) Vijayant MALIK (IND,462) vs (Q) Becker O'SHAUGHNESSEY (USA,UNR)

Doubles
[QF] Catalin-Ionut GARD (ROU)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) l Becker O'SHAUGHNESSEY (USA)/ Daniil PROSKURA (ARM) 46 46

Excellent dominating win by Vijayant against South African Proskura ... This win will give him huge confidence for next matches ... Hopefully he will revenge his doubles loss against American Becker O'Shaughnessey in the quarters.
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At $10K Egypt F18 Futures, Sharm El Sheikh (clay)

[R2] Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) l (6) Denys MYLOKOSTOV (UKR) 36 16

One sided loss for Vignesh against Mylokostov.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt

[R2] Anushka BHARGAVA (IND) l Giulia BRUZZONE (ITA) 06 36
[R2] (4) Shweta RANA (IND) l Dianne HOLLANDS (NZL) 63 36 16

Anushka failed to keep her momentum against Italian Giulia ... Shweta also lost against Hollands.

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