Sunday, January 12, 2014

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - Asia/ Oceania Group I,

Indian Team - Somdev Devvarman (#93), Yuki Bhambri (#172), Rohan Bopanna (doubles #13) and Saketh Myneni (S #318 and D #309)
Reserve Players - Sanam Singh (#390), Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (#314), Ramkumar Ramanathan (#407)
Non-playing captain - Anand Amritraj

Somdev and Rohan makes a comeback in Indian team which will strengthen India's Davis Cup squad for the opening Asia-Ocenia Group I tie against a tricky Chinese Taipei to be played in Indore ... Saketh is also selected as doubles partner to Rohan.
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At Australian Open 2014, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Tammi Patterson (AUS)/ Arina Rodionova (AUS)
[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Adrian Mannarino (FRA)
[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN)
[R1] (5) Leander Peas (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Lukas Rosol (CZE)
[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)/ Daniel Gimeno Traver (ESP)
[R1] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs Santiago Giraldo (COL)/ Joao Sousa (POR)

Sania-Cara r 6th seed and they r in top draw with top-seed Italian pair Errani-Vinci.

Rohan-Aisam r in top draw with top-seed Bryans ... Our other all pairs r in bottom draw ... Yuki-Venus having decent draw as they r facing unseeded Spanish pair ... Divij-Lu r facing tricky pair of Brunstrom-Nielsen ... Mahesh is also unseeded with Rajeev and they r facing Giraldo-Sousa in the first round ... Lee-Radek r 5th seed and facing Czech pair in the first round.

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