At Asia-Oceania Zone Group II - Fed Cup 2014, Astana, Kazakhstan (4th - 8th February)
India bt Iran 3-0
Rishika SUNKARA bt Ghazaleh TORKAMAN 60 60
Prarthana G. THOMBARE bt Sahar AMINI HAJIBASHI 76(3) 60
Ankita RAINA/ Rishika SUNKARA bt Sadaf SADEGHVAZIRI/ Sahar AMINI HAJIBASHI 60 61
Expected easy win ... Next match against Pakistan also winnable ... Our team's real test will be against New Zealand.
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At € 486K Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia
[R1] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Frantisek Cermak (CZE)/ Mikhail Elgin (RUS) 63 64
[QF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Julian Knowle (AUT)
With his new partner, Marcelo Demoliner, Purav started with win in Zagreb open ... Next they r facing tough challenge of third seed pair Brunstrom-Knowle.
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At $50K Chennai Challenger, India
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) bt (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,405) 75 5-4 retd.
[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,313) l (Q) Michael Venus (NZL,390) 76(3) 67(1) 16
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,262) 62 64
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,315) bt Mohamed Safwat (EGY,207) 64 62
[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,388) bt (6) David Guez (FRA,170) 64 75
[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,392) bt (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,478) 63 63
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) vs (Q) Michael Venus (NZL,390)
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) vs Gerard Granollers-Pujol (ESP,225)
[R2] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,315) vs (8) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,185)
[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,388) vs (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,392)
Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Blaz Rola (SLO) bt (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 57 75 10-6
Terrific upset wins by Sanam and Saketh against higher ranked opponents ... Sanam played terrific return game in his close two sets win over top-175 David Guez ... In both sets experienced multiple breaks but in both sets Sanam take crucial break to win it ... In first set Sanam take break in 9th game before holding his serve and in the second set Sanam broke Guez in 11th game and then hold for exciting win ... Next he is facing Balaji, who won his match comfortably against Prajnesh.
In the first set Saketh was struggling with his serve and Safwat broke him in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... After that Saketh made strong comeback and won 11 games from next 13 games ... In that he broke Safwat four times ... After 3-4 down he broke Safwat in 8th and 10th games for winning first set ... In second set he showed more dominant performance and won it comfortably after converting 5th match point ... Next he is facing 8th seed Italian Thomas Fabbiano.
Yuki continued with his good form from Davis cup and scored comfortable straight sets win over Taipei player Liang-Chi Huang ... In the second round he is facing Spanish Gerard Granollers-Pujol.
Buji struggled against young RamK ... This time also RamK stretched him ... Buji was break up at 4-3 but RamK broke him in 8th game to made it 4-all ... Buji take important break in 12th game for winning it ... In the second set both players were on serve at 5-4 and RamK was leading 40-30 on his serve before retiring ... Buji's next opponent is New Zealand's qualifier Michael Venus, who scored upset win over Jeevan in comeback win ... Jeevan won first set in tie-break but failed to put pressure on Venus's serve in this match ... Venus didn't face a single break point in entire match ... Once Jeevan's game falling apart then Venus turned table on him ... He won second set tie-break and third set convincingly.
Bala-Blaz scored upset win over top-seed Thai twins Ratiwatanas in match tie-break ... After losing first set Bala-Blaz made excellent comeback and won tight second set ... After that they controlled Thai twins in match tie-break and won it
India bt Iran 3-0
Rishika SUNKARA bt Ghazaleh TORKAMAN 60 60
Prarthana G. THOMBARE bt Sahar AMINI HAJIBASHI 76(3) 60
Ankita RAINA/ Rishika SUNKARA bt Sadaf SADEGHVAZIRI/ Sahar AMINI HAJIBASHI 60 61
Expected easy win ... Next match against Pakistan also winnable ... Our team's real test will be against New Zealand.
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At € 486K Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia
[R1] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Frantisek Cermak (CZE)/ Mikhail Elgin (RUS) 63 64
[QF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Julian Knowle (AUT)
With his new partner, Marcelo Demoliner, Purav started with win in Zagreb open ... Next they r facing tough challenge of third seed pair Brunstrom-Knowle.
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At $50K Chennai Challenger, India
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) bt (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,405) 75 5-4 retd.
[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,313) l (Q) Michael Venus (NZL,390) 76(3) 67(1) 16
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,262) 62 64
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,315) bt Mohamed Safwat (EGY,207) 64 62
[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,388) bt (6) David Guez (FRA,170) 64 75
[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,392) bt (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,478) 63 63
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) vs (Q) Michael Venus (NZL,390)
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) vs Gerard Granollers-Pujol (ESP,225)
[R2] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,315) vs (8) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,185)
[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,388) vs (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,392)
Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Blaz Rola (SLO) bt (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 57 75 10-6
Terrific upset wins by Sanam and Saketh against higher ranked opponents ... Sanam played terrific return game in his close two sets win over top-175 David Guez ... In both sets experienced multiple breaks but in both sets Sanam take crucial break to win it ... In first set Sanam take break in 9th game before holding his serve and in the second set Sanam broke Guez in 11th game and then hold for exciting win ... Next he is facing Balaji, who won his match comfortably against Prajnesh.
In the first set Saketh was struggling with his serve and Safwat broke him in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... After that Saketh made strong comeback and won 11 games from next 13 games ... In that he broke Safwat four times ... After 3-4 down he broke Safwat in 8th and 10th games for winning first set ... In second set he showed more dominant performance and won it comfortably after converting 5th match point ... Next he is facing 8th seed Italian Thomas Fabbiano.
Yuki continued with his good form from Davis cup and scored comfortable straight sets win over Taipei player Liang-Chi Huang ... In the second round he is facing Spanish Gerard Granollers-Pujol.
Buji struggled against young RamK ... This time also RamK stretched him ... Buji was break up at 4-3 but RamK broke him in 8th game to made it 4-all ... Buji take important break in 12th game for winning it ... In the second set both players were on serve at 5-4 and RamK was leading 40-30 on his serve before retiring ... Buji's next opponent is New Zealand's qualifier Michael Venus, who scored upset win over Jeevan in comeback win ... Jeevan won first set in tie-break but failed to put pressure on Venus's serve in this match ... Venus didn't face a single break point in entire match ... Once Jeevan's game falling apart then Venus turned table on him ... He won second set tie-break and third set convincingly.
Bala-Blaz scored upset win over top-seed Thai twins Ratiwatanas in match tie-break ... After losing first set Bala-Blaz made excellent comeback and won tight second set ... After that they controlled Thai twins in match tie-break and won it
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