Thursday, April 24, 2014

Tennis News

At Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying WJT Boys 2014, Delhi, India

[QF] (3) India l (7) New Zealand 0-2
Vikash Singh l Macsen Sisam 62 46 36
Siddhant Banthia l Finn Reynolds 26 67(1)

Our top player Adil Kalyanpur is injured but still bad loss for Indian boys, who r playing on home soil ... With this loss our boys miss opportunity of qualifying for World group.
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At €2.1M Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Spain (Red clay)

Doubles
[QF] (LL) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ante Pavic (CRO) l (LL) Jesse Huta Galung (NED)/ Stephane Robert (FRA) 64 36 5-10

Buji-Pavic started well but after winning the first set they failed to keep momentum ... And lost the match after losing the match tie-break easily.
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At $710K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, Stuttgart, Germany (WTA Premier) (Red clay)

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Kristina Barrois (GER)/ Annika Beck (GER) 63 26 10-8

This young German pair stretched Sania-Cara to match tie-break ... After winning the first set Cara-Sania lost momentum to lose the second set easily ... But they recovered to win tight match tie-break.
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At $50K+H Shenzhen Challenger, China

[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,260) l (1) Yen Hsun Lu (TPE,49) 26 57

Doubles
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) l Dominik Meffert (GER)/ Tim Puetz (GER) 36 67(6)

Saki lose both matches ... In the singles after losing the first set Saki was up 5-2 with a break but after that Lu used his experience and won next 5 games in that broke Saki in 9th and 11th games.

In the doubles Saki and Peng failed to capitalize on upset first round win ... In this match also after losing the first set Saki-Peng was break down ... They tried fightback and take the set in tie-break but failed to win it.

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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures, Namangan

[QF] (3) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,329) bt (Q) Vitaly Kozyukov (RUS,1697) 67(4) 64 63

[SF] (3) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,329) vs Vladimir Uzhylovsky (UKR,827)

Doubles
[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt Markos KALOVELONIS (GRE)/ Alexander VASILENKO (RUS) 75 63
[SF] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Piotr Gadomski (POL) bt Mikhail FUFYGIN (RUS)/ Shonigmatjon SHOFAYZIYEV (UZB) 63 75

Doubles Final
(1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Piotr Gadomski (POL) 63 61

Bala score comeback win over Russian qualifier ... After losing the first set in tie-break Bala showed consistency in his game to win next two sets ... In the semis he is facing former top 500 Ukrainian Uzhylovsky.

Bala play three matches in the day as the doubles semi-final and final played today only ... Top two seeds pairs won their respective semi-final matches in straight sets ... In the final Bala-Ranjeet score dominating win over Vishnu-Piots losing only four games.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[QF] (4) Natasha PALHA (IND,580) bt (7) Michika OZEKI (JPN,632) 63 64

[SF] (4) Natasha PALHA (IND,580) vs Ashling SUMNER (AUS,912)

Convincing win by Natasha against her Japanese opponent Ozeki ... In the semis she is facing unseeded Australian Ashling Sumner.
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At $10K Tukey F13 Futures, Antalya

[R2] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) l Franjo RASPUDIC (CRO,855) 46 16

RamK lose in the second round against 850+ ranked Croatian ... Mostly lack of match practice is the reason for this poor performance ... Hopefully he will be play as per his potential.
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At $10K Iran F6 futures , Kish

[SF] Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) bt (1) Matias CASTRO (ARG)/ Cristian RODRIGUEZ (COL) 76(2) 62

[F] Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) vs (4) Jerome INZERILLO (FRA)/ Martin VAISSE (FRA)

Akash-Ronak score huge upset win over top-seed South American pair in straight sets ... In the final they r facing 4th seed French pair.

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