Monday, February 17, 2014

Tennis News

At 2M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE (WTA Premier)

[R1] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE)

This week they r facing tricky Czech pair in first round.
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At $100K Delhi Challenger, India

[Q3] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (Ind, 467) l (5) Daniel Cox (GBR,250) 26 16

[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,352) l (8) Illya Marchenko (UKR,161) 26 63 46

Doubles
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ti Chen (IND) bt Steven Diez (CAN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 75 64
[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) l Matthias Bachinger (GER)/ Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) 62 26 6-10
[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Ruben Gonzales (PHI)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 63 62
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) bt (PR) Ruan Roelofse (RSA)/ Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA) 62 63
[R1] Theodoros Angelinos (GRE)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs Radu Albot (MDA)/ Illya Marchenko (UKR)

Prajnesh failed to gave challenge to Cox in his one-sided loss.

Other hand Sanam again missed big opportunity of earning few important ranking points ... After losing first set easily Sanam was break down at 2-3 in second set ... He won next four games breaking Illya in 6th and 8th games for winning this set ... In fiset also Sanam was break down at 3-0 after losing his serve in 2nd game ... Sanam broke Illya in 5th game to made 3-all ... In 9th game Sanam missed break point on Illya's serve and then failed to hold his serve in next game for losing the match.

RamK-Ranjeet started well and won first set convincingly but from second set their opponents Bachinger-Fabbiano started finding their range ... Bachinger-Fabbiano won second set with double break and take 6-1 lead in match tie-break ... RamK-Ranjeet reduced lead to 5-7 but Bachinger-Fabbiano kept their pressure and completed win.

But our other three pairs started with straight sets win in their first round matches ... Yuki-Venus had very comfortable outing ... Next they r facing Indian wild-card pair of Vishnu-Jeevan, who also had comfortable outing ... Bla also started with win with Ti Chen against Soeda-Diaz.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

[R1] (WC) Prerna Bhambri (IND) l (1) Erika Sema (JPN) 16 36
[R1] Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) l Veronika Kapshay (UKR) 46 57
[R1] (Q) Eetee Maheta (IND) vs Deniz Khazaniuk (ISR)
[R1] (WC) Shweta Rana (IND) l (8) Qiang Wang (CHN) 26 06
[R1] (Q) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) vs Rika Fujiwara (JPN)
[R1] (WC) Natasha Palha (IND) vs (Q) Manya Nagpal (IND)
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND) vs (WC) Rishika Sunkara (IND)
[R1] (Q) Riya Bhatia (IND) vs (3) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)
[R1] (Q) Sharrmadaa Baluu (IND) vs (Q) Vaniya Dangwal (IND)
[R1] Nidhi Chilumula (IND) l Peangtarn Plipuech (THA) 36 26
[R1] (Q)Sharon Sanchana Paul (IND) vs (2) Olga Savchuk (UKR)

Prerna failed to challenge top-seed Sema and Prarthana also failed to repeat her good performance from Fed cup ... She lost in tight two sets ... For Shweta and Nidhi, their respective opponents proved too strong for them.

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