Friday, March 07, 2014

Tennis News

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

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Roger Federer (SUI)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 26 76(4) 6-10
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Jerzy Janowicz (POL)/ Philipp Kohischreiber (GER)

Good to see Lee is back on the tour but he and Radek r facing trickiest pair of big serving Janowicz-Kohischreiber.

Rohan-Aisam faced legendary former Olympics gold medalist pair of Federer-Wawrinka, who were playing together after 18 months ... But from start they didn't show rustiness and won the first set breaking Rohan-Aisam twice ... The second set close one and Rohan-Aisam won it on tie-break ... In the match tie-break Rohan-Aisam failed to keep momentum and lost it..

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At $5.95M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (WC) Madison Keys (USA)/ Alison Riske (USA) 62 64

[R2] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA)

Expected easy winning start for Cara-Sania against local wild-card pair ... Next they r facing another American pair of Kops-Jones and Spears.
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At $40K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[SF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (4) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Danai Udomchoke (THA) 76(4) 75

[F] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

Divij-Purav scored tight two sets win over experienced pairing of Udomchoke-Matsui for entering in the final ... In the final they r facing 2nd seed Ratiwatana-Venus.
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At $10K+H India F2 Futures , Bhimavaram

Singles Semi Finals
(1) (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) 63 61
(3) (WC) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (8) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 63 63

Doubles Final
(1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 76(5) 63

Saketh and Sanam scored comfortable wins in the singles semis for entering in the final ... Interesting to see who is going to lift double crown ... As they won the doubles title beating 2nd seed Ranjeet-Bala in two sets.

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