Thursday, April 03, 2014

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2014 - Asia/Oceania 2nd Round, Busan, Korea

India vs Korea

Day one
[M1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,88) vs Hyeon Chung (KOR,478)
[M2] Sanam Singh (IND,371) vs Young-Kyu Lim (KOR,300)

Day Two
[M3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR)/ Suk-Young Jeong (KOR)

Day Three
[M4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,88) vs Young-Kyu Lim (KOR,300)
[M5] Sanam Singh (IND,371) vs Hyeon Chung (KOR,377)

Good to see Buji is playing first match but facing their top junior player, who was finalist at Wimbledon ... Anand is playing Sanam in the second singles ... This may be prove tactical master-stroke.
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At $40K+H Leon Challenger, Mexico (clay)

[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Richard Gabb (GBR)/ Nicolas Meister (USA) 62 57 12-14

Another bad loss for Divij-Purav against this lower ranked doubles pair ... They started well with winning the first set comfortably but after that they lost the plot ... In the match tie-break they missed match points also.
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At $15K Malaysia F1 Futures,

[R2] (LL) Christopher Marquis (IND,UNR) l (Q) Sanchai RATIWATANA (THA) 36 46
[R2] (6) Karunuday Singh (IND,488) bt Nam Hoang LY (VIE,2070) 36 76(4) 62

[QF] (6) Karunuday Singh (IND,488) vs (4) Ivo KLEC (SVK,393)

Doubles
[SF] (4) Karunuday SINGH (IND)/ Ivo KLEC (SVK) l (1) Sanchai RATIWATANA (THA)/ Sonchat RATIWATANA (THA) 76(2) 26 7-10

Another tough match for KU as he needed comeback for winning against this lowly ranked Vietnamese ... Next he is facing his doubles partner Ivo Klec ... Other hand Christopher failed to repeat his first round performance.

In the doubles KU-Ivo gave their best but Ratiwatanas proved better than them.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Manama, Bahrain2014

[R2] (6) Prerna Bhambri (IND,654) bt (WC) Maria Siopacha (CYP,UNR) 63 60
[R2] Kalpaka Pradip (IND,UNR) bt (3) Katharina Lehnert (PHI,542) 60 60

[QF] (6) Prerna Bhambri (IND,654) vs (3) Katharina Lehnert (PHI,542)

Expected result for Prerna but next she is having real test against 3rd seed Lehnert.

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