Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Tennis News

At €485,760 Open de Nice Côte d’Azur, France (Red clay)

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna(IND)/ Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Mathew Ebden(AUS)/ Dimitry Tursunov (RUS) 64 64
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Carlos Berlocq (ARG)/ Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 26 46

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna(IND)/ Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Oliver Marach (AUT)

Rohan-Aisam start with straight sets win over against tricky pairing of Ebden and Dima ... Next they r facing Bracciali-Marach ... Other hand Buji-Purav pairing fails to give challenge to Argentine pair.
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At $50K Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,359) bt Dzmitry Zhyrmont (BLR,335) 75 61
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,323) l Boy Westerhof (NED,286) 36 46
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,348) bt Artem Smirnov (UKR,285) 76(1) 76(5)

[R2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,359) vs (3) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS,242)
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,348) vs Antal Van Der Duim (NED,318)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Alexander Lokov (RUS)/ Valery Rudnev (RUS) 63 61

[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ James Clusky (IRL) vs Chase Buchanan (USA)/ Jeevan Nenduncheziyan(IND)
[QF] (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Antal Van Der Duim (NED)/ Boy Westerhof (NED)
[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) vs Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Saki score excellent win against in form Artem Smirnov ... In the first set Saki was break up but failed to hold his serve when serving for the set at 5-4 ... In tie-break Saki dominated to win it ... In the second set Saki got broke in 1st game but Saki fought back to broke Artem in 8th game ... Again in tie-break Saki's huge serve helped him to finish it off ... Next he is facing Dutch player who defeats 2nd seed Canadian..

Jeevan score dominating win against Zhyrmont ... After winning close the first set Jeevan dominated the second ... Next he is facing 3rd seed Russian.
Divij start with comfortable win with his partner Huang ... Next they r facing Dutch pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Tianjin, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) bt Siyu Chen (CHN)/ Xu Liu Sun (CHN) 62 63

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) vs (2) Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Aleksandrina Nayedenova (BUL)

Ankita-Fatma start with comfortable win against young Chinese pair ... Next they r facing 2nd seed pair.
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At $15K Mexico F5 futures , Obregon City

[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,376) l Tyler Hochwalt (USA,508) 46 16

Another poor outing for Sanam.
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At $10K Thailand F4 Futures, Kutching, Malaysia

[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,923) l Jonathon COOPER (AUS,881) 63 26 26
[R1] (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,1715) bt David SOFAER (AUS,932) 46 75 60

[R2] (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,1715) vs Jacob GRILLS (AUS,735)

Christopher score superb comeback upset win over Aussie Sofaer in the first round ... Next he is facing another Aussie Jacob Grills ... Other hand Kaza lose after winning the first set.

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