Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Tennis News

At The Wimbledon 2014, London, Great Britain

[Q1] (5) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) 75 75

[Q2] (5) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (1) Gero Kretschmer (GER)/ Alexander Satschko (GER) 46 61 64

Purav and his Brazilian partner Demoliner score excellent comeback win over top-seed German pair to qualify for Wimbledon main-draw ... After losing the first set they made strong comeback to win next set comfortably ... And then kept same momentum in the final set for upset win ... Before that in the first qualifying round they defeated Buji and his Russian partner Donskoy in tight two sets.
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At €503K Aegon International, Eastbourne, Great Britain (Grass)

[QF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Treat Huey (PHI)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) 46 36

This match was tough for Lee-Aisam on the grass and they lose the first set against Treat-Dominic ... Lee-Aisam fail to recover in the second set and lose their match in straight sets.
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At $50K+H Tianjin Challenger, China

[R2] (6) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) l (Q) Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,625) 67(0) 06

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Bumpei Sato (JPN) l (2) Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Hsin-Han Lee (TPE) 46 36

Really hoping no injury issue with Jeevan ... From 6-all in the first set he lost tie-break without winning a single point ... And in the second set Jeevan failed to win a single game ... Bala lose his doubles match easily for forgettable outing.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Montpellier, France

[QF] Prarthana Thombare (IND)/ Sofiya Kovalets (UKR) l (1) Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE)/ Elitsa Kostova (BUL) 46 36

Top-seed pair prove too strong for Prarthana-Sofiya.

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