Friday, September 27, 2013

Tennis News

At $2.37M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (1) Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Shuai Peng (CHN) 64 62

Sania-Cara enter into the final at Japan Open .... They scored convincing win over top-seed Chinese-Taiwani pair in 75 minutes.
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At $567.5K Thailand Open, Bangkok

[SF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Daniele Bracciali (ITA) l (3) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS) 36 46

Lee-Daniele failed to raise their game against Murray-Peers in straight sets loss ... Lee-Daniele failed to break opponent's serve in the match and other hand lost their service game one in both the sets.
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At $984K Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

[SF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman / Rik De Voest (IND/RSA) l Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 60 26 7-10

Buji-Rik started confidently and bangle their South American pair in the first set but after that South American pair recovered ... They won the second set breaking Buji-Rik twice and kept momentum in the match tie-break for good win.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Fergana, Uzbekistan

[QF] (8) Ankita RAINA (IND,310) l (3) Anastasiya VASYLYEVA (UKR,245) 16 36

Ankita lost easily against top-250 Ukrainian but still she performed as per her ranking in this tournament.
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At $15K Burundi F1 Futures, Bujumbura (clay)

[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,329) l (4) Lukas Jastraunig (AUT,628) 67(3) 67(5)

Doubles Final
(2) Yannick MERTENS (BEL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (4) Mark FYNN (ZIM)/ Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BDI) 63 62

Jeevan lost the semi-final against Austrian Lukas Jastraunig ... In both sets Jeevan failed to win tie-break.

Jeevan lifted the doubles title with his Belgian partner Yannick Meriens as they defeated 4th seed African pair easily.

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At $10K Egypt F26 Futures , Sharm El Sheikh

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) bt (4) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,451) 61 3-0 Retd.

[SF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) vs Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY,540)

Prajnesh's higher ranked Russian opponent Ivan Nedelko conceded match in the second set ... Before that Prajnesh won the first set losing a single game and then up 3-0 in the second ... Next Prajnesh is facing local in-form Karim-Mohamed Maamoun in the semis.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[QF] (1) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) bt Viktoriya BOGOSLOVSKAYA (RUS) 76(2) 63

[SF] (1) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) vs (3) Giulia BRUZZONE (ITA)

Rishika needed little extra efforts for beating Russian girl ... Next she is facing Italian opponent.

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