Thursday, February 27, 2014

Tennis News

At $2.36M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 57 76(3) 10-7

[SF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)

Didn't expected such fighting performance by Mahesh-Istomin against Rohan-Aisam ... Mahesh-Istomin won tight firset set but Rohan-Aisam kept fighting ... They won second set in tie-break and then kept momentum for winning match tie-break ... In the semis they r facing Czech-Polish unseeded pair of Dlouhy-Bednarek.
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At $10K India F1 Futures , Chandigarh

Singles Quarter Finals
Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) 46 63 75
(3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (Q) Ko SUZUKI (JPN) 62 60
(4) Antal VAN DER DUIM (NED) bt (5) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 63 63
(2) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (6) Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) 26 63 64

Doubles Semi finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (3) Sho KATAYAMA (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) 63 64
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 67(1) 64 10-6

Ronit gave fighting performance against Vishnu, who used his experience for comeback win ... Sanam also fought back after losing first set against Frenchman ... Bala had comfortable match against Japanese qualifier ... In the doubles final top-seed Bala-Ranjeet will face Sanam-Vivek, who scored tough win against 2nd seed Jeevan-Vishnu.

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