Tennis News

At $5.2M China Open, Beijing (WTA Premier)

[R2] (8) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE) 63 62

[QF] (8) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zheng (CHN)

Another good win for Sania-Cara pairing against tricky pairing of Pavlyuchenkova-Safarova ... In the quarters they r facing Chinese-Taiwani pair, who scored upset win over 3rd seed Aussie pair.
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At $3.57M China Open, Beijing

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) bt John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 62 62

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) vs David Marrero (ESP)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP)

Surprised by really comfortable win for Lee and Nestor against big serving American pair ... Next they r facing Spanish pair.
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At $1.4M Japan Open, Tokyo

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Juan Monaco (ARG)/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG) 75 46 10-5

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (ALT) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Martin Emmrich (GER)

Rohan-Edouard needed match tie-break for win against Argentine pair ... Next they r facing German pair.
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At $15K Rwanda F1 Futures, Kigali (clay)

[R2] (Q) Mithun Murali (IND,UNR) bt (7) Hassan Ndayishimiye (BDI,885) 16 62 64
[R2] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1408) l (5) Alexander Lazov (BUL,643) 06 06
[R2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,329) bt Henry Atseye (NGR,1774) 61 60

[QF] (Q) Mithun Murali (IND,UNR) vs (1) Gerald Melzer (AUT,197)
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,329) vs (5) Alexander Lazov (BUL,639)

Doubles
[QF] Sagar Ahuja (IND)/ Kunal Anand (IND) bt Sanni Adamu (NGR)/ Henry Atseye (NGR) 63 76(6)
[QF] Jannis Liniger (SUI)/ Mithun Murali (IND) bt (2) Alexander Lazov (BUL)/ Yannick Mertens (BEL) 67(1) 61 10-8

[SF] Sagar Ahuja (IND)/ Kunal Anand (IND) vs (1) Lukas Jastraunig (AUT)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT)
[SF] Jannis Liniger (SUI)/ Mithun Murali (IND) vs (4) Francesco Garzelli (ITA)/ Lorenzo Papasidero (ITA)

Excellent comeback win by Mithun over his 7th seed opponent ... Jeevan stream-rolled to the quarters ... Mithun is facing top-seed Melzer and Jeevan is facing 5th seed Bulgarian opponent.

In the doubles also Mithun scored excellent comeback win against 2nd seed pair with his Swiss partner ... Sagar and Kunal r also in the semis and facing top-seed pair in the semis.
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At $10K Kuwait F3 Futures, Meshref

[R2] Jatin Dahiya (IND,1310) l (8) Matias Castro (ARG,1100) 16 16

Doubles
[QF] Matias Castro (ARG)/ Akash Wagh (IND) bt (3) Patrick Davidson (USA)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) 62 16 10-7

[SF] Matias Castro (ARG)/ Akash Wagh (IND) vs (1) Lewis Burton (GBR) / Marcus Willis (GBR)

Good win by Akash and Castro over 3rd seed Saketh and Davidson in match tie-break.
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At $10K Germany F17 Futures, Hambach (Indoor Carpet)

[R1] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,451) bt Nikolai FIDIRKO (BLR,817) 63 36 64

[R2] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,451) vs Matthias WUNNER (GER,851)

Bala needed hard fought win against his lower ranked opponent Belarus player ... Next he is facing German opponent.
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At $10K Turkey F39 Futures , Antalya - Kaya-Belek

[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) bt (Q) Alexander Mozgovoy (RUS,UNR) 63 61

[R2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) vs Kirill Dmitriev (RUS,966)

Prajnesh started with comfortable win against his Russian opponent ... Next he is facing another Russian player Dmitriev.
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At $10K Spain F33 Futures, Sabadell

[QF] (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Lucas McCone (BEL) / Thomas McCone (BEL) 61 62

[SF] (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vsJaume Pla Malfeito (ESP)/ Jean-Marc Werner (GER)

Another comfortable win for Ramkumar and his Spanish partner.