Tennis News

At $3.7M Western and Southern Open, Cincinnati, USA

[R1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bye
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bye

Rohan is back with Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin ... They had a good performance at Wimbledon and before ... Lee-Radek needs to find their form before US Open.
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At $2.37M Western and Southern Open, Cincinnati, USA

[R1] (8) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) l Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 76(4) 46 5-10

This match was tricky one against Date-Krumm-Santonja but still wasn't expected loss ... After winning the first set in tie-break Sania-Jie failed to keep momentum in the second set ... And in the match tie-break they failed in giving challenge to their opponents ... Disappointing preparation for US open.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Westende-Middelkerke, Belgium (hard court)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,352) bt (WC) Jieke Stroobant (BEL,UNR) 60 61

Doubles
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Barbara Luz (POR) bt Hollie Bees (GBR)/ Kelly Southwood (NZL) w/o

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Barbara Luz (POR) vs (3) Tatiana Bua (ARG)/ Daniela Seguel (CHI)

Ankita take advantage of favorable draw and scored very dominating win over local wild-card player losing a single game.
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At $15K China F7 Futures , Tianjin

[R1] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,396) vs (WC) Xin GAO (CHN,2035)
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,546) vs (Q) Ruikai WANG (CHN,1342)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Ruikai WANG (CHN)/ Ruixuan WANG (CHN)

Hoping for better outing in the singles for Bala and Ranjeet.
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At $15K Poland F3 Futures, Bydgoszcz (red clay)

[R1] (8) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,530) bt Patryk JANIK (POL,1615) 62 61

Prajnesh started with comfortable win over local player.
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At $15K Canada F5 Futures, Calgary

[R1] (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,447) vs (WC) Andrew OCHOTTA (CAN,2049)

Doubles
[R1] Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) l (3) ean-Yves AUBONE (USA)/ Dennis NEVOLO (USA) 67(4) 16

In the doubles Vijayant and his Swedish partner lost against third seed American pair.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures, Izmir

[R1] (6) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,713) vs (Q) Daniiar DULDAEV (KGZ,818)

Doubles
[R1] Rishabdev RAMAN (IND)/ Vinod SRIDHAR (IND) vs Timur KHABIBULIN (KAZ)/ Dmitriy MAKEYEV (KAZ)
[R1] (2) Jaime PULGAR-GARCIA (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Punn BODHIDATTA (THA)/ Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) w/o

Tricky first round match for Ramkumar.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt


Singles Final
Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) bt Anastasia Kharchenko (UKR) 61 76(1)

Sowjanya Bavisetti lifted her first $10K ITF title ... She defeated Ukrainian Anastasia Kharchenko in straight sets at Egypt ITF tournament ... Sowjanya won the first set comfortably but Anastasia fought hard in the second ... Sowjanya kept her concentration and won the tie-break comfortably for her first title win and that's also outside India.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt

[R1] Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND,1081) vs (Q) Rona BERISHA (ENG,UNR)
[R1] Anushka BHARGAVA (IND,1003) vs Dagmara BASKOVA (SVK,1183)

Doubles
[R1] Anushka BHARGAVA (IND)/ Evgeniya SVINTSOVA (RUS) vs Sara OTTOMANO (SUI)/ Michelle WERBROUCK (BEL)
[R1] Madeleine BOEPPLE (GER)/ Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND) vs Angelina GORDIENKO (RUS)/ Andrea MARTINOVSKA (CZE)
[R1] Yuriko MIYAZAKI (JPN)/ Tanisha ROHIRA (IND) vs (2) Alessia CAMPLONE (ITA)/ Valeria PROSPERI (ITA)

This week Sowjanya, Rishika, Shivika and others returned home but couple of players r still playing in Egypt.