Sunday, September 01, 2013

Tennis News

At US Open 2013, New York, USA

Doubles
[R3] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt (6) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Kveta Peschke (CZE) 62 63
[R3] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l (12) Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) 46 46
[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt (14) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 75 46 63

Sania-Jie produced near perfect game to beat 6th seed Groenefeld-Peschke convincingly in 72 minutes ... In this match Sania-Jie didn't face a single break point on their serve, other hand they had thirteen break point chances on Groenefeld-Peschke serve and they converted four ... With this win Sania-Jie r in the quarter-final and waiting for winner between 15th seed Jelena Jankovic-Mirjana Lucic-Baroni and 4th seed Su-Wei Hsieh-Shuai Peng.

Lee-Radek defeated experienced French pair in hard fought match after 2 hours and 12 minutes ... After winning the first set Lee-Radek lost the second set with a single break but they fought back in the third and won it with a single break ... In the quarter final they r facing winner between Yen-Hsun Lu-Divij Sharan and 5th seed Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi-Jean-Julien Rojer.

Surprising loss of Rohan-Edouard against 12th seed British pair in straight sets ... In this match Rohan-Edouard struggled with their services and British pair take full advantage to scored upset win in 81 minutes.

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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Taipei City

Singles Final
(5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,593) bt (4) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,557) 75 64

Yuki lifted the title beating his Japanese opponent Takeuchi in straight sets ... This was expected title knowing Yuki's level of game ... So with this futures title win Yuki will be back inside top-500 in new rankings update after US open.

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