Sunday, March 09, 2014

Tennis News

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

[R2] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA) 63 64

Sania-Cara completed another comfortable win against American pair and with this win they r in the quarters.
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At $40K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan


Doubles Final
(1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 57 76(3) 10-4

Divij-Purav retained their Kyoto challenger title after hard fought comeback win against 2nd seed Venus-Ratiwatana ... This is their first title after that Bogota ATP title so this title will give them confidence for future tournaments.

Divij-Purav lost the first set and were under pressure in the second ... But from tie-breaks they dominated and after winning the second set tie-break they comfortably won the match tie-break.

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At $10K+H India F2 Futures , Bhimavaram


Singles Final
(1) (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (3) (WC) Sanam SINGH (IND) 46 63 61

Saketh wins double crown when he lifted singles title beating his doubles partner Sanam Singh ... Saketh started slowly and made few unforced errors ... Sanam take advantage of it and won the first set with single break ... From the second set Saketh raised his game and hit some superb deep ground-strokes ... Hit net game was also excellent but other hand Sanam played erratic game making unforced errors ... From 3-all in the second set Saketh won nine games from next ten games to win this title.

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