Sunday, February 02, 2014

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2014 - Group I Asia/Oceania -1st Round, Indore, India

India bt Chinese Taipei 5-0

Day One
[M1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,173) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,216) 64 64 67(1) 63
[M2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) bt Ti Chen (TPE,284) 67(4) 76(3) 16 62 9-7

Day Two
[M3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 60 67(3) 63 76(2)

Day Three
[M4] Saketh Myneni (IND,313) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,216) 61 64
[M5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,173) bt Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE,UNR) 75 60

Indians completed formalities after winning last two matches ... Saketh played in first reverse singles instead of Buji and scored comfortable straight sets win over talented Tsung-Hua Yang ... In last match Taipei played their doubles specialist Peng and Yuki also scored comfortable straight sets win ... So now in second Asia/Oceania Group I match India will face Korea in April.
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At € 486K Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia

[R1] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Frantisek Cermak (CZE)/ Mikhail Elgin (RUS)

Thisd week Purav is playing on ATP tour with Brazilian Demoliner at Zagreb open ... They r facing unseeded pair in first round.
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At $50K Chennai Challenger, India

Qualifying Second Round
Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (1) Hiroki KONDO (JPN) 64 64
(7) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt Joshua MILTON (GBR) 64 63
(2) Marek SEMJAN (SVK) bt N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 64 36 75
(5) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Artem SITAK (NZL) 76(2) 62
(3) Victor BALUDA (RUS) bt Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 63 76(2)
(6) Richard BECKER (GER) bt Rahul Robinson MANOAH (IND) 61 76(4)
(4) Michael VENUS (NZL) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 63 75
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) 61 67(2) 64

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) vs (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,405)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,312) vs Qualifier
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,173) vs Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,263)
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,313) vs Mohamed Safwat (EGY,203)
[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,396) vs Qualifier

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Blaz Rola (SLO) vs (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs Steven Diez (CAN)/ Daniel Munoz-De La Nava (ESP)
[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Ti Chen (TPE)/ Marek Semjan (SVK)
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)
[R1] (WC) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND) vs Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Agustin Velotti (ARG)
[R1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) vs (PR) Ruan Roelofse (RSA)/ Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA)

Young Sasi Kumar scored huge upset win over top-seed and #285 ranked experienced Hiroki Kondo in straight sets ... Next he is facing Prajnesh, who also scored straight sets win over Britisher Joshua Milton.

Good win by Sanam against Sitak ... In the final qualifying he is facing 2nd seed Slovak Marek Semjan ... Karunuday started confidently after winning first set losing a single game but Austrian Weissborn fought back and won second set in tie-break ... Karunuday kept his focus and won the final set ... Next he is facing 4th seed Michael Venus.

The singles main-draw is out ... Buji having tricky match against RamK, who defeated him in first round of Chennai open ... Yuki is facing Taiwani opponent Huang and his is in same draw with Buji and can meet in the quarters ... Jeevan and Balaji r facing an qualifiers ... Saketh having tough match against 200 ranked top Egyptian Sawafat.

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