Monday, April 28, 2014

Tennis News

At $250K Portugal Open, Oeiras (Red clay)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Maria Irigoyen (ARG)

Surprising entry of Sania-Cara in Portugal open.
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At $50K+H An-Ning Challenger, China (clay)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,328) l Jordan Thompson (AUS,325) 26 36

Poor loss of Jeevan against similar ranked player.
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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Aning, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,291) vs (1) Jovana Jaksic (SRB,106)

Doubles
[R1] Cindy BURGER (NED)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) l Yihong LI (CHN)/ Lin ZHU (CHN) 63 36 8-10

Ankita decide to play in tougher tournament and facing top-100 type Serbian Jaksic in the first round ... In the doubles she and her Dutch partner Burger failed to took advantage of good start and lost in match tie-break.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures, Andijan

[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,333) l Richard Muzaev (RUS,786) 57 36
[R1] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,574) vs (Q) Pavel Tsoy (UZB,UNR)
[R1] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,642) vs (Q) Fedor Chervyakov (RUS,1044)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt Evgeny Elistratov (RUS)/ Vitaly Kozyukov (RUS) 64 64
[R1] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Remi Boutillier (FRA) vs Sanjar Fayziev (UZB)/ Temur Ismailov (UZB)

[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) vs (WC) Roman Safiullin (RUS)/ Alexander Vasilenko (RUS)

Shocking loss of Bala in the singles.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,705) bt (2) Shweta RANA (IND,547) 61 5-0 retd.
[R1] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND,553) bt (Q) Chompoothip JANDAKATE (THA,UNR) 63 75

Impressive start by Nidhi and winning start for Natasha.
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At $10K Tukey F14 Futures, Antalya - Belconti

[R2] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) vs (LL) Aoran WANG (CHN,1940)

RamK need to perform as per his seedings.
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At $10K Iran F7 futures , Kish

[R1] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1362) l (1) Vadim Alekseenko (UKR,536) 16 26
[R1] Ronak Manuja (IND,1267) vs (WC) Amirvala Madanchi (IRI,UNR)
[R1] Anvit Bendre (IND,1456) l Maxi Pongratz (AUT,1162) 16 26
[R1] Akash Wagh (IND,1138) bt (7) Marko Danis (SVK,835) 06 76(8) 64
[R1] (Q) Neeraj Elangovan (IND,2183) vs (WC) Leo Julien Sebaoun (JPN,UNR)

Impressive win by Akash ... After losing the first set easily Akash saved few match points in the second set before winning the match.

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