Friday, October 04, 2013

Tennis News

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

[SF] (8) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (1) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA) 64 64

Sania-Cara r in dream form ... In this big Premier tournament they defeated WR #1 Italian pair in straight sets ... Sania-Cara r showing very good understanding in their partnership ... Hopefully they will continue with their this dream partnership in 2014.
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At $1.4M Japan Open, Tokyo

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Treat Huey (PHI)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) 64 76(6)

Rohan-Edouard showing good form before important indoor Masters and scored tight but straight sets win over good pairing of Treat-Inglot.
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At $10K Turkey F39 Futures , Antalya - Kaya-Belek

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) bt (1) Ti Chen (TPE,272) 64 64

[SF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,544) vs (5) Adam Pavlasek (CZE,413)

Last week in the Egypt futures final Prajnesh got double bagel in the match but here he showed his strong character against former top-200 and current top-300 Ti Chen ... Prajnesh completed victory in straight sets against experienced Ti Chen and enter into the semis.
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At $15K Rwanda F1 Futures, Kigali (clay)

Doubles Final
Jannis Liniger (SUI)/ Mithun Murali (IND) l (1) Lukas Jastraunig (AUT)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT) 26 46

Murli and his Swiss partner failed to gave much challenge to top-seed Austrian pair.
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At $10K Spain F33 Futures, Sabadell

Doubles Final
(2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (1) Eduard Esteve Lobato (ESP) / Oriol Roca Batalla (ESP) 67(4) 63 10-8

Ramkumar lifted the doubles title with Spanish David Perez Sanz against top-seed Spanish pair ... Ramkumar and his partner lost the first set in tie-break but they fought back to win the second ... Ramkumar and Sanz won closely fought match tie-break.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[QF] (4) Rishika SUNKARA (IND) l (5) Ipek SOYLU (TUR) 63 16 06

Rishika started well with winning the first set but this 17 yrs old talented Turkish girl Ipek Soylu, who is junior WR #15, came back strongly in the match ... Ipek lost only a single game for winning next two sets.

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