Thursday, August 15, 2013

Tennis News

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

[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Jerzy Janowicz (POL)/ Lukasz Kubot (POL) 63 64

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

Lee-Radek faced tough Polish challenge and they scrpted comfortable straight sets win ... Good win after poor outing at Rogers Masters ... Next they r facing tough challenge of Rohan-Edouard ... And with recent form Rohan-Edouard will be favorite for the match..
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At $15K China F7 Futures , Tianjin

[R2] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,396) bt Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,559) 62 63

[QF] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,396) vs (7) Ji Sung NAM (KOR,462)

Doubles
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (4) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) 63 62

[F] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (3) Hyeon CHUNG (KOR)/ Ji Sung NAM (KOR)

Bala scored comfortable win over Takeuchi in the singles and then with Ranjeet in the doubles they r in the final with dominating win ... In the quarters Bala is facing 7th Korean and in the doubles final they r facing Korean pair.
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At $15K Poland F3 Futures, Bydgoszcz (red clay)

[R2] (8) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,530) bt Andriej KAPAS (POL,735) 61 36 76(5)

[QF] (8) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,530) vs (3) Rui MACHADO (POR,358)

Prajnesh needed third set tie-break to beat local player Kapas after saving few match points in 10th game ... After winning the first set easily Prajnesh lost momentum in the second ... But he fought back in the third before winning it in tie-break ... In the quarter final he is having very tough match against former top-60 player Rui Machado.
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At $10K Turkey F32 Futures, Izmir

[QF] (6) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,713) l (4) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,542) 46 57

Doubles
[QF] (2) Jaime PULGAR-GARCIA (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) l Konstantinos MIKOS (GRE)/ Warit SORNBUTNARK (THA) w/o

Fighting performance by Ramkumar against in-form Frenchman ... After losing the first set mRamkumar was up with break 4-2 in the second but Enzo made solid comeback to won this set and match.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt

[R2] Mahitha DADI REDDY (IND,1081) l (1) Clothilde DE BERNARDI (FRA,372) 26 06

Expected one-sided loss of Mahitha.

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