Tennis News

At $6.2M Shanghai Rolex Masters, China

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l Treat Huey (PHI)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) 67(4) 75 6-10
[R2] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) l Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 57 63 11-13

I was hoping win for our both pairs but both lost in match tie-break ... After losing the first set both fought back to won the second but failed to win match tie-breaks ... Rohan-Edouard needed good tournament in bid for qualifying for year-end ATP World tour Final.
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At $15K USA F26 Futures, Houston, Texas

[R2] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,359) bt (WC) Stefan Kozlov (USA,UNR) 64 63

[QF] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,359) vs (8) Tyler Hochwalt (USA,573)

Doubles
[SF] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (1) Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Kevin King (USA) 57 63 10-3

[F] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (4) Evan King (USA)/ Costin Paval (ROU)

Really good win by Sanam against talented 15 yrs old and Jr WR #14 American Stefan Kozlov in straight sets ... Young Kozlov gave fighting performance as he fought back in the second set from 0-4 but in end Sanam was better player on the court ... Next he is facing 8th seed American Hochwalt.

Impressive win by Sanam-Vijayant in the doubles semi-final against top-seed American pair ... After losing the first set our pair made excellent comeback to won the second set and then comfortably won the match tie-break ... In the final they r facing 4th seed American-Romanian pair.
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At $10K Greece F14 Futures, Marathon - Athens

[R2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,535) bt Konstantinos Mikos (GRE,1030) 36 63 61

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,535) vs (3) Claudio Grassi (ITA,466)

Prajnesh lost the first set against local Greek player but he fought back and won the next two sets comfortably ... Next he is facing 3rd seed Italian Grassi.
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At $10K Kazakhstan F6 Futures, Shymkent

[QF] (1) Karunuday Singh (684) l (8) Andrei Vasilevski (BLR,907) 36 57

Karunuday lost against above 900 ranked Andrei Vasilevski in straight sets ... Really poor loss of Karunuday, he really need to raise his game.
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At $10K Great Britain F20 Futures, Sunderland

[QF] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,801) l (1) Ashley HEWITT (GBR,373) 46 26

Doubles
[SF] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ David PEL (NED) bt (4) Stefan STERLAND-MARKOVIC (GBR)/ Darren WALSH (GBR) 62 16 10-6

[F] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ David PEL (NED) vs (3) Josh GOODALL (GBR)/ Harry MEEHAN (GBR)

Vijay Sundar failed to gave fight to top-seed Hewitt in the singles ... But in the doubles Vijay Sundar is in the final with his Dutch partner David Pel ... They scored upset win over 4th seed British pair in match tie-break ... In the final they r facing 3rd seed British pair.
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At $10K Spain F34 Futures, Sant Cugat

[SF] (4) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)/ Oriol Roca Batalla (ESP) 67(6) 26

Ramkumar and his partner Sanz lost against Spanish pair in the semis ... After losing the first set in tie-break Ramkumar and Sanz overpowered in the second set.
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At $10K Germany F18 Futures, Leimen

[R1] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,451) bt Bastian Wagner (GER,866) 62 60

[QF] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,451) vs (1) Adrian Sikora (SVK,329)

Very dominating win by Bala against German Wagner losing only two games ... In the quarter final he is facing top-seed and top-330 Adrian Sikora.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R2] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Sneha PADAMATA (IND) 61 61

[QF] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND) vs Helen PLOSKINA (UKR)

Expected easy win for Natasha against Sneha ... Next she is facing Ukrainian girl Helen Ploskina, who upset 5th seed Swiss girl.