Friday, November 15, 2013

Tennis News

At $50K Champaign Challenger, USA

[SF] Sanam Singh (IND)/ Michael Shabaz (USA) l (2) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Tennys Sandgren (USA) 76(3) 36 7-10

Sanam-Shabaz started well and won the tight first set in tie-break ... But after that they failed to kept momentum and lost the second set ... In the match tie-break Krajicek-Sandgren proved strong to Sanam-Shabaz.
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At $15K ITF Tournament, Mumbai, India

Singles Semi Finals
(1) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) bt (7) Anamika Bhargava (USA) 67(8) 64 61
Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) bt (8) Prerna Bhambri (IND) 16 64 62

Doubles Final
(1) Anamika BHARGAVA (USA)/ Emily WEBLEY-SMITH (GBR) bt Ching-Wen HSU (TPE)/ Eden SILVA (GBR) 64 75

Good fightback by Prarthana after losing long tie-break against Anamika ... But other hand Prerna lost after winning the first set against Taiwani player.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, Delhi

Singles Semi Finals
(1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (5) Torsten WIETOSKA (GER) 63 61
(3) Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 57 63 76(4)

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (2) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 76(3) 63

Yuki scored comfortable win against his German opponent losing only 4 games ... Other hand Bala faced spirited challenge from fit-again Vishnu ... Vishnu won the first set but Bala fought back to won the second ... The third set went to tie-break and Bala proved better against Vishnu.

Bala having chance of winning double crown as he with Ranjeet lifted the doubles title in straight sets.

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At $10K USA F31 Futures, Bradenton, Florida

[R2] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,UNR) l (3) Romain Arneodo (MON,556) 57 46

Sumit gave decent performance against top-550 type Monaco player ... He lost in close two sets against this experienced player.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sant Jordi, Spain (clay)

[QF] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,788) l (6) Paula Badosa (ESP,634) 46 67(3)

Doubles Final
(1) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Lucia Cervera-Vazquez (ESP) l (2) Barbara Luz (POR)/ Nuria Parrizas-Diaz(ESP) 57 46

Sowjanya again lost against Paula but this time she gave decent fighting performance against Paula.

In the third week in a row Sowjanya missed lifting the doubles title with her partner ... This week she was top-seed with Spanish Lucia Cervera-Vazquez but in the final they lost in straight sets against 2nd seed Pair.

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