Friday, August 09, 2013

Tennis News

At 2013 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals - u14, Prostejov, Czech Republic (clay)

Boys play-off 13-16
India bt Italy 2-1

Alex SOLANKI bt Nicolas MERZETTI 63 75
Nitin Kumar SINHA l Andrea TRAPANI 36 63 36
Vasisht Vinod CHERUKU/ Alex SOLANKI bt Nicolas MERZETTI/ Andrea TRAPANI 62 63

Girls play-off 5-8
India bt South Africa 2-0

Mihika Sanjoy YADAV bt Zani BARNARD 64 63
Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Lee BARNARD 63 63

Our boys scored their first win in the tournament ... They defeated Italian team ... Alex started with straight sets win over Merzetti but Nitin Kumar lost his match ... In the doubles Alex with Vasisht scored comfortablw in ... Now for 13th place they r facing Japanese team.

Our girls continue with their impressive run ... They scored comfortable win over South African girls ... Mihika and Pranjala won their respective matches ... For 5th place they will face 3rd seed Aussie girls.

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At $3.5M Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada

[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Andy Murray (GBR) 36 36

Disappointing start of US hard court season for Radek-Lee as they lost easily against makeshift British pairing of Andy Murray and Colin Fleming.
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At $15K China F6 Futures , Zhangjiagang

[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (3) Hyeon CHUNG (KOR)/ Ji Sung NAM (KOR) w/o

[F] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (1) Yong-Kyu LIM (KOR)/ Toshihide MATSUI (JPN)

Our pair received walkover from Koran pair ... In the final they r facing top-seed Korean-Japanese pair.
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At $10K Turkey F31 Futures, Izmir

[QF] David PEL (NED)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (4) Vaja UZAKOV (UZB)/ Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ) 36 76(5) 10-2

[SF] David PEL (NED)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs (1) Brydan KLEIN (GBR) / Dane PROPOGGIA (AUS)

Very fighting win in the match tie-break by Rakumar in the doubles with his partner David Pel ... In the final they r facing top-seed Aussie pair.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh , Egypt

[R2] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) bt Shivika Burman (IND) 63 61
[R2] Mahitha Dadi Reddy (IND) l Linda PRENKOVIC (GER) 26 26
[R2] (2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt (WC) Viktoriya Bogoslovskaya (RUS) 64 76(4)

[QF] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND) vs Linda PRENKOVIC (GER)
[QF] (2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) vs Dianne HOLLANDS (NZL)

Sowjanya scored comfortable win over Shivika ... Rishika scored tight win over Russian girl ... Our both players having tough matches in the quarters.
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At Egypt F19 Futures, Sharm El Sheikh

[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,1088) l (5) Alessandro Petrone (ITA,573) 26 26

Expected loss of Sidharth.

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