Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Tennis News

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

[R2] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Andreas Seppi (ITA)/ Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) 75 63
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Jerzy Janowicz (POL)/ Lukasz Kubot (POL)

The straight sets win for Rohan-Edouard against Seppi-Youzhny and enter into the quarter final.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Westende-Middelkerke, Belgium (hard court)

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,352) bt (Q) Vanesa Furlanetto (ARG,402) 61 64

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND,352) vs (6) Katerina Vankova (CZE,306)

Doubles
[QF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Barbara Luz (POR) l (3) Tatiana Bua (ARG)/ Daniela Seguel (CHI) 36 06

Really happy for Ankita as she is adjusting well for these higher level ITF tournaments ... In the second round she scored dominating win over Argentine qualifier to enter in quarter final ... Next she is facing 6th seed Czech player Katerina Vankova.

But in the doubles third seed pair of Bua-Seguel comfortably defeated Ankita-Barbara.

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At $15K China F7 Futures , Tianjin

[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,546) l (Q) Ruikai WANG (CHN,1342) 67(4) 36

[R2] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,396) vs Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,559)

Doubles
[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Siyu LIU (CHN)/ Chuhan WANG (CHN) 62 26 10-1

[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (4) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN)

Ranjeet's disappointing run in the singles continues ... Here he lost against local qualifier ... Bala having tricky match against his Japanese opponent.

In the doubles Bala-Ranjeet needed match tie-break for a win against local pair ... Next they r facing 4th seed Japanese pair.

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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures, Izmir

[R2] (6) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,713) bt Romain Bauvy (FRA,1089) 61 63

[QF] (6) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,713) vs (4) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,542)

Ramkumar scored comfortable and dominating win over his French opponent ... But his next French opponent is tough one.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt

[R1] Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND,1081) bt (Q) Rona BERISHA (ENG,UNR) 64 61
[R1] Anushka BHARGAVA (IND,1003) l Dagmara BASKOVA (SVK,1183) 63 46 2-3 Retd.

[R2] Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND,1081) vs (1) Clothilde DE BERNARDI (FRA,372)

Mahitha scored straight sets win over British qualifier but Anushka retired from her match in the third set ... Mahitha has a tough match against top-seed French girl.

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