Saturday, May 03, 2014

Tennis News

At $250K Portugal Open, Oeiras (Red clay)

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (3) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 64 63

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Eva Hrdinova (CZE)/ Valeria Solovyeva (RUS)

Sania-Cara score comfortable win over experienced pair of Huber-Raymond ... In the final they r facing unseeded Czech-Russian pair.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures, Andijan

[SF] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,574) l Richard Muzaev (RUS,787) 67(1) 64 57

Vishnu lose his semi-final after giving fighting performance ... Though he lose his match against lower ranked Russian opponent but overall he must be happy with hsi performance.
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At $10K Tukey F14 Futures, Antalya - Belconti

[QF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) bt (Q) Simeon ROSSIER (SUI,1471) 61 64

[SF] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) bt (4) Peter HELLER (GER,656) 64 64

[F] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,388) vs (2) Anton ZAITSEV (RUS,404)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Andrei CIUMAC (MDA)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (3) Patrick GRIGORIU (ROU)/ Matteo MARFIA (ITA) 46 64 10-8

[F] (1) Andrei CIUMAC (MDA)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) l (2) Sho KATAYAMA (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) 36 16

Good to see RamK playing as per his ranking ... He is in the final with comfortable wins ... In the final he is facing similar ranked Russian Zaitsev.

In the doubles he and his partner Ciumac ended as runner-up behind Japanese pair.

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At $10K Iran F7 futures , Kish

Doubles Final
Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) l (2) Marko TEPAVAC (SRB)/ Mark VERVOORT (NED) 67(5) 64 1-10

Surprising meltdown in the match tie-break by Ronak-Akash though overall creditable performance ... They win a title and runner-up in two weeks.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[SF] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND,553) l (7) Michika OZEKI (JPN,630) 26 46

Natasha fails to cross Ozeki hurdle and lose the semi-final.

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