Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Tennis News

At The Wimbledon 2014, London, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,119) l (15) Jerzy Janowicz (POL,24) 64 36 36 63 36

Surprisingly fighting performance by Buji against big server Jerzy ... Jerzy wasn't his usual form but still Buji give creditable performance against him ... In the first set both players held their respective service games till 9th game ... Buji broke Jerzy in 10th game for winning opening set ... In the second set from 3-all Buji lost his serve in 7th and 9th game for losing this set ... In the third set Jerzy broke Buji in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that lead for winning the third set ... Jerzy broke Buji in 1st game of 4th game to lead 2-0 but Buji fought back and broke Jerzy in 4th game to make 2-all .. Buji agan broke him in 8th game to win the set and take match into the decider ... Buji failed to keep his momentum in the fifth ... Jerzy broke Buji in 6th (?) game to lead 4-2 and then hold his serve for five sets win ... Considering recent slump in the form Buji perform way above expectation but still fail to convert it in the win.
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At $50K+H Nanchang Challenger, China

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,301) l (4) Ze Zhang (CHN,189) 26 06
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,368) l Ti Chen (TPE,311) 26 36

One-sided losses of Jeevan and Bala in the singles.
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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Xi'an, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,289) bt Mingyang Liu (CHN,UNR) 62 62

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,289) vs (6) Hiroko Kuwata (JPN,236)

Doubles
[QF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Barbara Bonic (SRB) vs Jia-Jing Lu (CHN)/ Yafan Wang (CHN)

Expected easy win for Ankita ... Next she is having tough match against top-40 Japanese Kuwata.
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At $15K USA F17 Futures, Oklahoma City

[R1] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,376) l Collin Altamirano (USA,885) 36 16

Doubles
[R1] Srikar ALLA (IND)/ Nicholas HORTON (AUS) bt Vladislav BONDARENKO (UKR)/ Nathan ROPER (USA) 63 62

[QF] Srikar ALLA (IND)/ Nicholas HORTON (AUS) vs (3) Jesus BANDRES (VEN)/ Gonzalo ESCOBAR (ECU)

Horrible loss of Sanam against Altamirano ... In the doubles Srikar start with a win with Aussie partner ... Next they r facing 3rd seed South American pair.
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At $10K Thailand F7 futures, Bangkok

[R1] (1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,563) bt Aoxiong WANG (CHN,1588) 63 64
[R1] (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,1588) l Ko SUZUKI (JPN,1024) 36 67(0)
[R1] Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1686) l Peerakit SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,UNR) 67(164)
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1103) bt (WC) Congsup CONGCAR (THA,1830) 46 76(7) 62

[R2] (1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,563) vs Ko SUZUKI (JPN,1024)
[R2] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1103) vs (3) Dayne KELLY (AUS,649)
[R2] Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,1257) vs (5) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,759)
[R2] Ronit Singh BISHT (IND,1174) vs (WC) Suthinan TANTHASERANEEWAT (THA,UNR)

Kaza need comeback win from match point against lower ranked Thai opponent ... Other hand Vishnu win comfortably against Chinese opponent ... But Abhijeet and Marquis fail to cross first round hurdle.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[R1] (Q) Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,993) l Kotomi TAKAHATA (JPN,807) 36 06
[R1] Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,677) l (Q) Yukun ZHANG (CHN,1037) 36 06

Very disappointing performance by Rutuja and Prerna in their one-sided losses.
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At $10K Spain F15 Futures, Palma Del Rio

[R1] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,340) bt Erik Crepaldi (ITA,429) 64 76(8)

[R2] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,340) vs (Q) Jorge Hernando-Ruano (ESP,911)

Doubles
[QF] Jaume PLA MALFEITO (ESP))/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (4) David PEREZ SANZ (ESP)/ Ricardo VILLACORTA-ALONSO (ESP) 64 46 10-8

[SF] Jaume PLA MALFEITO (ESP))/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP)/ David VEGA-HERNANDEZ (ESP)

RamK score really good win against top-425 Italian player Crepaldi ... Next he is facing Spanish qualifier Hernando-Ruano, who wins futures couple of weeks ago.

In the doubles Ramk-Jaume score upset win in the match tie-break against 4th seed Spanish pair ... In the semis they r facing 2nd seed Spanish pair.

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