Friday, April 25, 2014

Tennis News

At €2.1M Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Spain (Red clay)

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (5) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 76(6) 57 7-10

Rohan-Aisam lose in very close match against multiple grand slam winners Nestor-Zimo in match tie-break ... Rohan-Aisam won the first set in extra points tie-break but after they failed to keep momentum ... Nestor-Zimo won next set with single break and kept their advantage for winning the match tie-break.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures, Namangan

[SF] (3) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,329) l Vladimir Uzhylovsky (UKR,827) 67(4) 26

I m surprise by this loss of Bala ... Though Uzhylovsky was former top-500 players but he is more like journeyman on the futures ... This was winnable match which Bala lost it.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[SF] (4) Natasha PALHA (IND,580) l Ashling SUMNER (AUS,912) 63 67(3) 26

Natasha miss big opportunity of entering $10K tournament final outside India ... Natasha started well and won the first set then in the second set she had couple of match points at 6-5 and she was also leading 3-0 in the tie-break ...Ashling won the tie-break and after that she didn't gave much chance to Natasha.
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At $10K Iran F6 futures , Kish

Doubles Final
Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) bt (4) Jerome INZERILLO (FRA)/ Martin VAISSE (FRA) 26 61 11-9

Ronak-Akash completes their excellent week with the doubles title when they produce amazing comeback ... After losing the first set cheaply Ronak-Akash responded strongly and won this set with ease ... In the match tie-break both pairs tried hard but our pair prevailed in extra points ... Great win!

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