Tennis News

At US Open 2013, New York, USA

[Q2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,113) bt Robby Ginepri (USA,252) 76(4) 26 62

[Q3] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,113) vs James Ward (GBR,175)

Buji was favorite here though in their last meeting in Cincinnati three years ago Buji lost against Robby ... Match was hampered by rain delays ... Buji won the tight first set in tie-break ... In the second set Robby broke Buji in 3rd game to lead 2-1 and then with another break he won it comfortably ... In the final set Buji showed aggressiveness which was missing in the 1st two sets ... He broke Robby twice to won this set and enter into the final qualifying ... As per onlookers both players played average tennis and Buji's 1st and 2nd serves were looking pathetic ... Need to improve against Britisher James Ward.
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At $690K New Haven Open, USA

[SF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP)/ Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 63 63

Very authoritative victory by Sania-Jie against Spanish pair ... They needed such performance before US open ... Their final opponents is still to decide.
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At $575K Winston-Salem Open, USA

[SF] (1) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) 63 63

Lee-Daniel scored comfortable win over this wild-card pair in straight sets and enter into the final ... In this match our pair didn't lose their service and broke opponent's serve thrice.
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At $15K Gabon F1 Futures, Libreville

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(IND,377) bt (5) Vishnu Vardhan(IND,681) 63 61

[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(IND,377) vs (4) Sam BARRY (IRL,540)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Alexis KLEGOU (BEN)/ Arthur SURREAUX (FRA) 61 26 10-7
[SF] Sagar Ahuja (IND)/ Tal Eros (ISR) l (2) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Elie ROUSSET (FRA) 16 26

[F] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (2) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Elie ROUSSET (FRA)

Surprisingly dominating win for Jeevan ... I was expecting more fighting performance by Vishnu but really good win for Jeevan ... In the semis he is facing 4th seed Irish Sam Barry.

Our top-seed pair needed match tie-break for entering the final ... In the final they r facing 2nd seed Irish-French pair.
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At $15K Canada F6 Futures, Winnipeg

[R2] (4) Vijayant MALIK (IND,451) l (Q) Cameron NORRIE (GBR,1346) 16 46

Vijayant failed to raise his game against former top-10 and current top-25 junior British player and lost in straight sets.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F1 Futures, Taipei City

[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Kento Takeuchi(JPN) bt Wei-De Lin (TPE)/ Cing-Yang Meng(TPE) w/o
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Kento Takeuchi(JPN) bt Yu-Chi Chang (TPE)/ Jui Mao (TPE) 64 63

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Kento Takeuchi(JPN) vs (2) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)

Yuki in the doubles semis with his Japanese partner Kento Takeuchi.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

Singles Quarter Finals
Katherine Ip (HKG) bt (1) Keren Shlomo (ISR) 63 62
(4) Prathana G. Thombare (IND) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) 63 61
(7) Shweta Rana (IND) bt Bhuvana Kalva (IND) 63 62
(2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt (8) Julia Moriarty (AUS) 46 64 64

Good tp see three Indians in the semi-finals ... But young Katherine Ip is favorite for the tournament.