Monday, November 04, 2013

Tennis News

At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England

Doubles B
[M1] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepaneck (CZE) vs (2) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)
[M2] (6) David Marrero (ESP)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP) bt (4) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 61 64

Leander-Radek r in Group B with 2 Spanish pair and WR #2 Peya-Soares,
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At $50K Traralgon Challenger, Australia


Singles Final
(8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,277) bt (1) Bradley Klahn (USA,123) 67(13) 63 64

After starting match from 4-2 Yuki played solid game on his serve and hold his service games ... Yuki converted his 2nd match point and lifted his 2nd challenger title ... Importantly Yuki scored three wins in a row over higher ranked opponents against whom he lost in his previous match ... With this win Yuki climbs to #204 in updated ATP ranking.
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At €64K Ortisei Challenger, Italy

[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) David Kostner (ITA)/ Patric Prinoth (ITA) 61 63

[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Martin Fischer (AUT)/ Peter Gojowczyk (GER)

Divij and Purav played singles qualifying, they did well as Divij lost in 2nd qualifying and Purav lost in the final qualifying ... Playing on the courts helped them in the doubles and they started with comfortable win over local wild-card pair ... Next they r facing top-200 singles players pairing.
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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q2] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,366) bt Joshua Milton (GBR,605) 62 61

[Q3] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,366) vs Fares Ghasya (LIB,2030)

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,289) vs (5) Donald Young (USA,97)

Doubles
[Q1] (1) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL)/ Joshua Milton (GBR) 61 62

[Q2] (1) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (2) Edward Corrie (GBR)/ Daniel Smethurst (GBR)

Saketh is having tough first round against Donald Young but before that I m hoping Saketh will be fully recover from his wrist injury.

Sanam scored comfortable win in 54 minutes against Britisher Joshua Milton losing only 3 games ... Next he is facing Libyan Fares Ghasya, who upset two 600s ranked players in previous two rounds ... Saketh-Sanam started withe dominating win in the doubles qualifying ... In the final qualifying they r facing 2nd seed British pair Corrie-Smethurst.

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