Tennis News

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

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (2) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 76(3) 75

[R2] (2) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Cara Black (ZIM)/ Robert Farah (COL)

Rohan-Katarina wins tricky match against clay court specialists Hlavackova-Lopez ... Rohan-Katarina needed to dig deep to win the first set in tie-break and then in the second set also they were stretched to 12th game by Hlavackova-Lopez ... Next they r facing Cara-Farah.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Balikpapan, Indonesia

[QF] (1) Ankita Raina (IND,288) bt (5) Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA,344) 62 64

[SF] (1) Ankita Raina (IND,288) vs (3) Miyabi Inoue (JPN,326)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Sharmadaa Baluu (IND)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l (1) Varatchaya Wongteanchai (THA)/ Varunya Wongteanchai (THA) 75 16 3-10

Ankita easily dispatch top-350 Lertpitaksinchai in the quarter-final losing only 6 games ... Next she is facing 3rd seed and top-325 type Miyabi Inoue.

In the doubles Ankita-Sharmadaa lose after winning the first game ... After losing the first set top-seed Thai girls dominated the match.
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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,302) bt Gengo Kikuchi (JPN,904) 76(3) 63

[SF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,302) vs (3) Yuuya Kibi (JPN,539)

Despite lower ranked opponents Jeevan is keeping his focus to win these matches ... In the semis he is facing top-550 Japanese Kibi.