Thursday, January 02, 2014

Tennis News

At $400K Aircel Chennai Open 2014, India

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) bt Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Frank Moser (GER) 76(4) 61
[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 2-1 retd. (Lu right thigh strain))
[R1] (WC) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 75 63
[R1] (2) Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) w/o (Fognini thigh injury)

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (WC) Karen Khachanov (RUS) / Saketh Myneni (IND)
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) vs (4) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN)
[QF] (WC) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Bala-RamK scored huge upset win over very experienced American pairing of Ram-Lipsky in straight sets ... Next they r facing 4th seed Brunstrom-Nielsen.

Raja-Sela also started with win against another experienced pairing of Monroe-Moser ... They dominated the second set after winning the first set in tie-break ... Next they r facing Croatian pair, who received walkover from 2nd seed.

Divij-Lu retired from the match due to tigh strain to Lu ... Tough luck for Divij.

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