Sunday, December 29, 2013

Tennis News

At $400K Aircel Chennai Open 2014, India

[Q2] Sanam SINGH (IND,391) l Frederik NIELSEN (DEN,617) 57 57
[Q2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,519) bt Mikhail ELGIN (RUS,958) 63 75

[Q3] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,519) vs Norbert GOMBOS (SVK,197)

RK in the final qualifying round beating experienced former top-125 singles player and current top-75 type doubles player Russian Mikhail Elgin ... After winning the first set RK faced stiff resistant from Elgin ... In 11th game RK saved 2 break points on his serve and then take crucial break on Eligin serve in 12th game for straight sets victory ... Next he is facing top-200 Slovakian Norbert Gombos, who scored upset win over 3rd seed Serbian Lajovic.

But other hand Sanam failed to live up of challenge from another doubles specialist Frederik Nielsen ... In the first set Frederik broke Sanam early to lead 2-1 but Sanam fought back and broke him, 5-all ... Frederik take crucial break in 11th game before holding his serve for winning the set ... Same story repeated in the second set as Frederik take crucial break in 11th game and then hold his serve for completing the win.

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At $25K Hongkong ITF Women's Tournament, Hongkong

[Q1] (4) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,401) bt Miki KOBAYASHI (JPN,UNR) 62 36 61

[Q2] (4) Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,401) l (13) Kai-Lin ZHANG (CHN,757) 26 36

Bad loss for Prarthana in the second qualifying round against her lower ranked Chinese opponent.

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