Thursday, October 17, 2013

Tennis News

At $15K Australia F10 Futures, Sydney

[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,284) l (6) Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN,348) 26 57

Doubles Final
(3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) l (1) Dane Propoggia (AUS)/ Jose Statham (NZL) 46 36

Yuki struggled in windy condition and his doubles partner Uchiyama take full advantage of it ... He defeated Yuki in straight sets ... In the doubles also Yuki struggled and lost the final in straight sets against top-seed pair with Uchiyama.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Lagos, Nigeria

[QF] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,505) l (7) Naomi BROADY (GBR,284) 16 26

Doubles
[QF] Dalila JAKUPOVIC (SLO)/ Kyra SHROFF (IND) vs Gioia BARBIERI (ITA)/ Anna MORGINA (RUS) 63 26 7-10

Broady proved too strong for Prarthana ... Kyra-Dalila failed to taking advantage of beating seeded pair in previous round ... They won the first set but then lost advantage to lose the match.
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At $15K Nigeria F1 Futures , Lagos

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,699) l (6) Borna Coric (CRO,531) 76(5) 26 16
[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,315) l Andre Gaspar Murta (POR,681) 26 62 46
[QF] (Q) Mithun Murali (IND,1658) l (5) Ante Pavic (CRO,489) 16 26

Vishnu broke Borna in 6th game to lead 4-2 but WR #1 junior immediately broke him to make 4-3 ... In tie-break Vishu take 4-1 lead but again Borna made it 4-all ... Vishnu take crucial mini-break on 11th point and hold his serve for winning the first set ... But after that Borna blow off the challenge of Vishnu and won next two sets losing only three games ... Jeevan also lost against Portuguese youngster in three sets ... After losing the first set Jeevan made comeback winning the second set comfortably ... But Andre kept his nerve and won the third set with single break advantage ... Mithun failed to gave any fight to to Pavic.
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At $10K Germany F19 Futures, Essen

[R2] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,457) l Alexander Ritschard (SUI,747) 64 46 26

Doubles
[QF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Miki Jankovic (SRB) bt Peter Torebko (GER)/ Holger Zuehlsdorff-Pavlovic (GER) 36 63 10-7

[SF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Miki Jankovic (SRB) bt Michel Dornbusch (GER)/ Jonas Koeing (GER) W/O

Bala started well and won the first set but after that Ritschard take control of the match ... He scored upset win after winning next two sets.

In the doubles Bala is in the final with his Serbian partner Miki Jankovic ... They needed comeback win in the quarter final after losing the first set ... They won the second set and kept momentum for winning the match tie-break ... In the semi-final their opponents gave them walkover so safe entry in the final.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R2] (4) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Ella LEIVO (FIN) 62 61

[QF] (4) Natasha PALHA (IND) vs (7) Valeria PROSPERI (ITA)

Comfortable win for Natasha against Finnish girl ... Next she is facing Italian girl.
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At $10K Spain F35 Futures, Sant Cugat

[SF] (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l Jordi Munoz-Abreu (VEN)/ Mark Vervoort (NED) 46 64 6-10

Ramkumar-Sanz lost in match tie-break against unranked pair.

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