Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Tennis News

At French Open 2014, Paris, France (Red clay)

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (ALT) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Rameez Junaid (AUS) 75 67(4) 75

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA)

Divij enter in main-draw with Rameez as alternate pair but they were unlucky to face Rohan-Aisam in the first round ... They had titanic battle and Rohan-Aisam used their experience in the final set ... Take important break in 11th game before holding their serve from 0-30 and completed the victory.
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At $50K Vicenza Challenger, Italy (clay)

[R1] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) l Martin Alund (ARG)/ Guido Pella (ARG) 67(3) 76(3) 7-10

Another very close loss for Purav ... Playing with different partner every week is not helping Purav.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Balikpapan, Indonesia

[R1] (1) Ankita Raina (IND,288) bt Sharmadaa Baluu (IND,651) 75 62
[R1] Shweta Rana (IND,577) l (5) Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA,345) 16 16
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,522) bt (Q) Abbie Myers (AUS,1004) 62 63
[R1] (Q) Sneha Padamata (IND,1179) bt (Q) Leah Daw (AUS,1210) 63 16 64

[R2] (1) Ankita Raina (IND,288) vs Mai Minokoshi (JPN,602)
[R2] Natasha Palha (IND,522) vs (3) Miyabi Inoue (JPN,326)
[R2] (Q) Sneha Padamata (IND,1179) vs Barbara Bonic (SRB,342)

Expected wins for Ankita and Natasha but impressive performance by 16 yrs old Sneha ... In the second round Natasha and Sneha having tough matches.
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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[R2] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,302) bt Thomas Shubert (USA,1646) 64 75
[R2] Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1667) l (8) Woong-Sun Jun (KOR,970) 46 26

[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,302) vs Gengo Kikuchi (JPN,904)

Tougher win than expected for Jeevan.
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At $10K Thailand F5 Futures, Bangkok

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,343) l Pruchya Isarow (THA,812) 57 26

Doubles
[QF] (2) Ryan AGAR (AUS)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) l Sanchai RATIWATANA (THA)/ Wishaya TRONGCHAROENCHAIKUL (THA) 46 46<)

Shocking loss of Jeevn against lowly ranked Thai player ... In the doubles also he and Agar loses against Ratiwatana and his partner.
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At $10K South Africa F1 Futures , Sun City

[R2] Ronak MANUJA (IND,1363) l (6) Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA,754) 26 26

Expected loss of Ronak against Roelofse.

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