Monday, January 20, 2014

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2014, Melbourne

Doubles
[R3] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)/ Vera Dushevina (RUS) 64 63

[QF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (1) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)

Mixed Doubles
[R2] Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (8) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 60 26 10-6
[R2] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) bt Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Colin Fleming (GBR) 62 62
[R2] (2) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ John Peers (AUS) 76(5) 75

[QF] Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN)
[QF] (2) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS)

Juniors Doubles
[R1] Ilze Hattingh (RSA)/ Simran Kaur Sethi (IND) l (7) Michaela Gordon (USA)/ Katrine Steffensen (USA) 67(2) 76(7) 3-10

Sania-Cara scored comfortable win in 72 minutes against unseeded pair Bouchard-Dushevina ... Next they r facing top-seed Italian pair Sara Errani-Roberta Vinci in the quarters.

Rohan-Katarina scored tight win against Australian pair in MXD ... In both sets Australian pair stretched Rohan-Katarina but they prevail to enter quarters of MXD ... Next they r facing another unseeded Aussie pair, who scored upset win over 7th seed pair.

Sania-Tecau started confidently and won the first set with double break ... They continued same tempo in the second set and won this also with double break.

Lee-Daniela scored win in match tie-break against Mahesh-Elena ... Lee-Daniela won the first set without losing a single game but Mahesh-Elena fought back and won the second set with double break ... Lee-Daniela recovered and won match tie-break to enter the quarters ... Next they r facing Nestor-Mladenovic..

Simran Kaur-Ilze gave fighting performance against 7th seed American pair ... First 2 sets shared by both pairs as both sets went to tie-break ... But in match tie-break American pair proved too strong.

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At $125K+H Heilbronn Challenger, Germany

[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) vs Andreas Beck (GER)/ Benjamin Becker (GER)

This week Divij is playing in Germany with Swedish partner and they r facing tricky local pair in the first round.

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