Tennis News

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

[QF] (8) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) 64 61

[SF] (8) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (1) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)

Sania-Cara scored comfortable win over Chan-Zheng in the quarter final ... Next they r facing top-seed and WR #1 Italian pair.
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At $3.57M China Open, Beijing

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) bt David Marrero (ESP)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 76(8) 63

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA)

Lee-Daniel scored hard fought win over Spanish pair ... They needed extra points in tie-break before winning it and then won the second set with a break ... In the semis they r facing Italian pair, who upset 3rd seed Aisam-Rojer.
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At $1.4M Japan Open, Tokyo

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt (ALT) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Martin Emmrich (GER) 61 36 12-10

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Treat Huey (PHI)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR)

Rohan-Edouard needed to dig deep after winning the first set ... They lost the second set but hard fought for winning the match tie-break ... Next they r facing Huey-Inglot.
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At $15K Rwanda F1 Futures, Kigali (clay)

[QF] (Q) Mithun Murali (IND,UNR) l (1) Gerald Melzer (AUT,197) 06 16
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,329) l (5) Alexander Lazov (BUL,639) 46 67(5)

Doubles
[SF] Sagar Ahuja (IND)/ Kunal Anand (IND) l (1) Lukas Jastraunig (AUT)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT) 67(3) 26
[SF] Jannis Liniger (SUI)/ Mithun Murali (IND) bt (4) Francesco Garzelli (ITA)/ Lorenzo Papasidero (ITA) 63 61

[F] Jannis Liniger (SUI)/ Mithun Murali (IND) vs (1) Lukas Jastraunig (AUT)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT)

Poor loss of Jeevan against below 600 ranked Bulgarian ... Jeevan also need to raise his game for top-300 ranking and for playing regularly on challenger level.

Mithun-Jannis scored easy straight sets win over 4th seed Italian pair ... Next they r facing top-seed Austrian pair.
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At $10K Turkey F39 Futures , Antalya - Kaya-Belek

[R2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) bt Kirill Dmitriev (RUS,966) 57 62 62

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) vs (1) Ti Chen (TPE,272)

Prajnesh recovered well after losing the first set and then won next two sets comfortably against Russian opponent ... Next he is facing top-seed and top-300 experienced Ti Chen.
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At $10K Germany F17 Futures, Hambach (Indoor Carpet)

[R2] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,451) l Matthias Wunner (GER,851) 57 64 67(2)

Bala's poor run continued though this match was lot more closer ... But still his loss against 850 ranked player was hurting.
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At $10K Kuwait F3 Futures, Meshref

[SF] Matias Castro (ARG)/ Akash Wagh (IND) l (1) Lewis Burton (GBR) / Marcus Willis (GBR) 26 26

Akash-Castro failed to provide challenge to top-seed pair.
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At $10K Spain F33 Futures, Sabadell

[SF] (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Jaume Pla Malfeito (ESP)/ Jean-Marc Werner (GER) 61 76(2)

Good win by Ramkumar and Sanz for entering in the final.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R2] (4) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) bt (Q) Anabel OSSOMBI (UKR) 61 62

[QF] (4) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) vs (5) Ipek SOYLU (TUR)

Rishika scored comfortable win against Ukrainian qualifier ... Next she is facing Turkish girl.