Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Tennis News

At $4.7M Sony Open Tennis, Miami, USA

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Jamie Murray (ENG)/ John Peers (AUS)
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA)
[R1] Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (2) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)

Our all pairs r in bottom draw.
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At $40K+H Panama Challenger, (clay)

[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT) 63 67(4) 8-10

As expected turned very tough match for Divij-Purav against Austrian pair ... They started well after winning the first set but after that Austrian pair raised tempo and won next set in tie-break ... Austrian pair kept momentum and won match tie-break also.
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At $10K India F4 Futures , Trichy (clay)

Singles Second Round
(1) Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 60 63
(5) Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) bt (WC) Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 61 61
(4) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Sergio MARTOS GORNES (ESP) 76(6) 75
Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA) bt Akash WAGH (IND) 62 61
Lucas RENARD (SWE) bt (WC) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) 61 62
(3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 62 63
(6) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND) 64 62
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 61 61

Doubles Quarter Finals
Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Jannis LINIGER (SUI)/ N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 57 76(8) 10-8
(3) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) 62 62
(4) Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA)/ Lucas RENARD (SWE) bt Sergio MARTOS GORNES (ESP)/ Pol TOLEDO BAGUE (ESP) 63 64
Nitten KIRRTANE (IND)/ Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Chandril SOOD (IND) 75 36 10-6

Our only four seeded players in quarter-finals ... In the doubles our three pairs in the semi finals.

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