Thursday, May 22, 2014

Tennis News

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

[SF] (1) Rohan Bopanna(IND)/ Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (3) Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 46 76(2) 10-8

Rohan-Aisam pull excellent but hard fought comeback win against French pair ... After losing the first set our pair was break down ... From 4-5 in the second set Rohan-Aisam broke them to take the set in tie-break ... Our pair dominated tie-break and kept that momentum for winning tight match tie-break.
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At $50K Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,359) bt (Q) Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,881) 63 62
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,348) l Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO,294) 16 26

[SF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,359) vs (5) Chase Buchanan (USA,263)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ James Clusky (IRL) l Sergey Betov (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR) 46 46
[SF] (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 36 36

Only Jeevan enter into the semis with dominating win against former top-150 Russian Mikhail Ledovskikh ... In this match Jeevan was never under pressure as he served amazingly ... He served 17 aces and managed to put extra pressure on Mikhail's serve, whom he broke thrice in the match ... Other hand Saki struggles with his serve and managed only 2 aces ... Saki failed to give any fight and lost inside 49 minutes.

In the doubles also our both pairs lost easily against their respective opponents ... Overall disappointing day for Indians but silver line is this is Jeevan's first challenger semi-final and he is in still race for qualifying for Wimbledon qualifying.

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

[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,290) bt Yuxuan Zhang (CHN,399) 46 64 61

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,290) vs (Q) Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN,854)

In their last meeting Ankita lost her match against Zhang at Asian Australian qualifying tournament ... Here also Zhang started well and won the first set ... Ankita raised her game from the second set which she won with a single break ... In the final Ankita broke Zhang in 1st game and from 2-1 she won next four games to complete excellent comeback win ... Next she is facing another Chinese player, this time qualifier Yang who upset 8th seed player in the first round.

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