Tennis News

At US Open 2013, New York, USA

Doubles
[R2] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt Katalin Marosi (HUN)/ Megan Moulton-Levy (USA) 63 75
[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)/ Mikhail Elgin (RUS) 76(2) 76(0)
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Daniel Brands (GER)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 46 63 64
[R2] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 64 57 76(2)

[R3] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) vs (6) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Kveta Peschke (CZE)
[R3] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (12) Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)
[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs (14) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
[R3] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (5) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)

Turned to be superb day for Indians as our all pairs win their matches ... Most impressive win was by Divij with his partner Lu against experienced Israeli pair, Erlich-Ram ... Our pair won the first set before losing the second set ... In the closely fought third set they completed win after clinching tie-break ... Next they r facing 5th seed pair of Aisam-Rojer.

Sania-Jie scored straight sets win over Marosi-Levy ... Next they r facing 6th seed pair of Groenefeld-Peschke.

Rohan-Edouard needed two tie-breaks for winning their match against Russian pair ... Next they r facing 12th seed British pair.

Lee-Radek started slowly but after losing the first set they made strong comeback to won next two sets ... Next they r facing 14th seed French pair.
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At $15K Gabon F2 Futures, Libreville

Singles Final
(2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(IND,375) l Arthur Surreaux (FRA,1573) 64 46 57

Jeevan missed chance of winning another futures title as he lost the final against 1500+ ranked Surreaux ... Jeevan started with winning the first set but failed to kept momentum in next two sets ... This is Surreaux's first ITF futures title.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Taipei City

[SF] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,593) bt (2) Sean Berman (USA,527) 62 62

[F] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,593) vs (4) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,557)

Yuki scored dominating win over 2nd seed Sean Berman ... Next in the final he is facing 4th seed Japanese Kento Takeuchi.
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At $10K Egypt F22 Futures , Sharm El Sheikh

[SF] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,402) l Mazen Osama (EGY,725) 57 26

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l Sebastian RIVERA (ECU)/ Ricardo URZUA-RIVERA (CHI) 46 67(4)

Bala failed to overcome challenge of junior player of Egypt's ... In the doubles final also top-seed Bala-Ranjeet lost against South American pair.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

Singles Final
Bhuvana Kalva (IND) bt (6) Akari Inoue (JPN) 64 75

Bhuvana completed excellent run after lifting her first ITF tournament title beating 6th seed Akari Inoue in the final ... Terrific performance by young Bhuvana in this ITF tournament, who defeated in-form Ankita Raina in the semis.