Thursday, March 13, 2014

Tennis News

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

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l Roger Federer (SUI)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 36 76(6) 4-10

Lee-Radek failed to solve Swiss puzzle and lost in match tie-break ... Federer-Wawrinka won the first set but after that Lee-Radek fought back and won this set in extra points of tie-break ... In match tie-break Swiss pair used their services effectively and won it comfortably.
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At $5.95M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[QF] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 64 61

[SF] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (8) Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Jie Zheng (CHN)

Sania-Cara scored comfortable win against #2 Russian pair for entering in to the semis ... After winning the first set with single break advantage they dominated the second set and won it losing a single game ... In the semis Cara-Sania r facing 8th seed Czech-Chinese pair of Lucie Hradecka and Jie Zheng.
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At $10K India F3 Futures , Chennai (clay)

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) bt (8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 62 67(6) 64
(4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (5) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 36 63
(3) (WC) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 64 64
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (7) Andre GASPAR MURTA (POR) 62 63

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Jannis LINIGER (SUI)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 64 75
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (3) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 36 10-6

In this futures last two rounds r ended as per seedings ... All top four seeds in the semis though Ranjeet stretched his top-seed Spanish opponent Lopez-Perez to three sets ... RamK also tried hard but Bala won this match in three sets ... Other hand Sanam and Jeevan scored straight sets win ... In the doubles top two Indian pairs in the final with contrasting wins.

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