Tennis News

At €485,760 Portugal Open, Oeiras (Red clay)

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,102) l Tomáš Berdych (CZE,6) 36 26

Doubles
[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (1) Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ David Marrero (ESP) 26 26

Frankly speaking no expectations from Buji in his match against Berdych ... Berdych won the first set with a single break in 4th game ... Buji also had chances as he missed three break point chances in 3rd, 7th and 9th game ... After winning the first set Berdych put extra pressure on Buji's serve ... He broke Buji two times and didn't face a single break point on his serve ... Berdych completed victory in 76 minutes.

Divij-Purav also fail to lift their game against top-seed pair ... Cuevas-Marrero scored dominating win losing only 4 games.
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At $250K Portugal Open, Oeiras (Red clay)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP)/ Shuai Zhang (CHN) 63 64

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (3) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

Comfortable straight sets win for Sania-Cara in the quarters ... In the semis they r having interesting match between very experienced pair of Lisa Raymond and Liezel Huber.
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At $50K+H An-Ning Challenger, China (clay)

[QF] Jeevan Nenduncheziyan(IND)/ Richard Becker (GER) l Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Nikola Mektic (CRO) 76(3) 46 8-10

Jeevan-Becker lose in match tie-break ... After winning the first set in tie-break they failed to keep momentum.
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At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, USA

[R1] Sanam Singh (IND)/ Takanyi Garanganga (ZIM) vs (4) Sekou Bangoura (USA)/ Evan King (USA)


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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures, Andijan

[QF] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,574) bt (Q) Evgeny Elistratov (RUS,1108) 75 61

[SF] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,574) vs Richard Muzaev (RUS,787)

Doubles
[SF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) l (4) Daniiar Duldaev (KGZ)/ Vladimir Uzhylovsky (UKR) 63 26 7-10

Vishnu score straight sets win over Russian qualifier Evgeny ... In the semis he is facing another unseeded Russian Muzaev.

Bala-Ranjeet fails to took advantage of winning the first set and lose their match in match tie-break against 4th seed.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[QF] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND,553) bt Mandy WAGEMAKER (NED,753) 57 64 64

[SF] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND,553) vs (7) Michika OZEKI (JPN,630)

Nice comeback win by Natasha against Dutch girl Wagemaker ... Natasha lost the first set but after that she fought back to win next two sets ... In the semis she is facing 7th seed Japanese girl Ozeki.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[QF] (3) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND,385) l Polina Monova (RUS,876) 16 16

Monova prove too strong for Prarthana.
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At $10K Tukey F14 Futures, Antalya - Belconti

[R2] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) bt Sergei BUBKA (UKR,UNR) 67(5) 64 64

[QF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) vs (Q) Simeon ROSSIER (SUI,1471)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Andrei CIUMAC (MDA)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Alexander JHUN (GBR)/ Yusuke WATANUKI (JPN) 64 63

[SF] (1) Andrei CIUMAC (MDA)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs (3) Patrick GRIGORIU (ROU)/ Matteo MARFIA (ITA)

Ramk Score really good comeback win against former top-200 player Sergei Bubka, who is coming out of life threatening injury ... Next he is facing Swiss qualifier.

RamK-Andrei r in the semis with straight sets win over Jhun-Watanuki ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed pair.
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At $10K Iran F7 futures , Kish

[SF] Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) bt Maximilian MANN (AUT)/ Maxi PONGRATZ (AUT) 62 62

[F] Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) vs Marko TEPAVAC (SRB)/ Mark VERVOORT (NED)

Akash-Ronak continue with their good run ... They r in their second final in two weeks after scoring very convincing win over Austrian pair ... In the final they r facing 2nd seed Serbian-Dutch pair.