Tennis News

At $5.24M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Jerzy Janowicz (POL)/ Philipp Kohischreiber (GER) 76(6) 36 10-5

[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt (WC) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Richard Gasquet (FRA) 63 75

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Roger Federer (SUI)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)

After winning first match in the match tie-break against big serving pair Lee-Radek scored comfortable straight sets win over Erlich-Gasquet ... In the quarters they r facing tricky Swiss pair of Federer-Wawrinka ... Still overall good performance by Lee-Radek considering this is their first tournament after Australian open as Lee is recovering from injury.
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At $5.95M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[QF] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)

Sania-Cara r facing 2nd seed Elena-Ekaterina.
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At $125K+H Irving Challenger, Texas, USA

[R1] (8) Somdev Devvarman (IND,78) vs Daniel Gimeno-Traver (ESP,97)

Hopefully Buji will show his Indian challengers form.
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At $10K India F3 Futures , Chennai (clay)

Singles First Round
(1) Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 62 63
(Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) bt (WC) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 57 76(8) 75
(Q) Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB) bt (Q) Shotaro GOTO (JPN) 67(3) 63 63
(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (Q) Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA) 62 76(1)
(4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 76(5) 63
(Q) Vincent VAN DEN HONERT (NED) bt Vignesh VEERABHADRAN (IND) 63 63
Sergey SHIPILOV (UZB) bt (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 62 64
(5) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 75 76(1)
(6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Jannis LINIGER (SUI) 57 63 63
(Q) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 60 63
(Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND) 76(5) 46 64
(3) (WC) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (Q) Akash WAGH (IND) 63 63
(7) Andre GASPAR MURTA (POR) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 46 46
(Q) SAI SARAN REDDY BYREDDY (IND) bt (WC) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 64 63
Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt (Q) Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 61 64
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 61 60

Doubles First Round
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Rahul Robinson MANOAH (IND)/ Raswant RAVI (IND) 63 62
Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB)/ Sergey SHIPILOV (UZB) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 64 36 10-7
Jannis LINIGER (SUI)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (4) Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA)/ Lucas RENARD (SWE) 61 76(5)
Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABHADRAN (IND) 63 63
Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Andre GASPAR MURTA (POR)/ Andrew OCHOTTA (CAN) 63 63
(3) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 64 76(1)
Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Chandril SOOD (IND) 64 75
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Anvit BENDRE (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) 63 64

Excellent comeback fighting win by Ronit against experienced Vinayak ... RamK also won tough opener against Vishnu but surprised by Sai's win over Sasi.
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At $15K China F2 Futures, Guangzhou

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,488) vs Ivo KLEC (SVK,427)

Tough match for KU considering his current form.