Monday, September 02, 2013

Tennis News

At US Open 2013, New York, USA

Doubles
[R3] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (5) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 67(6) 63 36

In the first set both pairs traded a break before taking the set into tie-break ... Aisam-Rojer take early mini-break in 3rd point to lead 2-1 but Purav-Lu take mini-break back in 9th points to 4-5 ... Purav-Lu had a set point on opponent's serve at 6-5 but Aisam-Rojer converted 1st set point taking point on Purav-Lu's serve for winning this set ... After this match stopped due to rain break ... After break Divij-Lu tried comeback and they won the second set witha single break ... But they failed to kept momentum in the third set and lost the set with match against 5th seed ... Still creditable performance by Divij, who reached the third round of his first US open .. SO with important ranking points, he also won $15000 prize money.
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At $50K St. Remy Challenger, France

[Q1] Purav Raja (IND,925) bt Thomas Le Boulch (FRA,1236) 62 62
[Q2] Purav Raja (IND,925) bt Joshua Milton (GBR,451) 64 4-0 retd.

[Q3] Purav Raja (IND,925) bt (WC) Alexander Buchner (FRA,UNR) 60 60

[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND,925) vs Michal Konecny (CZE,335)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Guilherme Clezar (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Marc Gicquel (FRA)/ Josselin Ouanna (FRA)

Purav qualify for the singles main-draw of St. Remy Challenger, in that he scored very good win over top-500 British player Joshua Milton ... In the first round he is facing Czech Michal Konecny.
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At $15K Canada F7 Futures, Toronto

[R1] (3) Viajayant Malik (IND,452) vs Pavel Krainik (CAN,827)

Doubles
[R1] Viajayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Anderson Reed (USA)/ Michael Rubin (USA) 64 62

[QF] Viajayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (2) Jean-Yves Aubone (USA)/ Sekou Bangoura (USA)

Interestingly Sanam is playing in the doubles only with Vijayant ... They had winning start in the first round ... Next they r facing 2nd seed American pair.
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At $10K Egypt F23 Futures , Sharm El Sheikh

[R1] (1) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,402) vs (Q) Ameur Ben Hassen (TUN,UNR)
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,1270) vs (8) Ricardo Urzua-Rivera (CHI,676)
[R1] (4) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) vs (Q) Mina Albert (EGY,1900)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Adham ELGANAINY (EGY)/ Seong-Gook OH (KOR)
[R1] Karim Scremin Ashraf EL HAWAN (BRA)/ Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) vs Julian TUROSIENSKI (POL)/ Rafal TEURER (POL)
[R1] Francesco BESSIRE (ITA)/ Arjun KADHE (IND) vs Mehdi ABID (TUN)/ Skander MANSOURI (TUN)

Arjun is back on the tour after long injury break but having tough match against 8th seed Chilean.

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