Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Tennis News

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

Doubles
[R1] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 62 64
[R1] (Q) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (15) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 26 46 46
[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Jamie Delgado (GBR)/ Gilles Muller (LUX) 62 62 67(3) 36 26

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Shuko Aoyama (JPN) vs Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Vania King (USA)
[R1] (6) Horia Tecau (ROU)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bye
[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) bye
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bye

Sania-Cara score comfortable win over experienced pairing of Hingis-Zvonareva to start their Wimbledon campaign ... In the first set Sania-Cara were break down at 1-2 but after that they won next 5 games in that breaking Hingis-Zvonareva thrice to win the set ... They kept momentum in the second set for winning the match.

Divij-Lu started with dominating their opponents and won the first 2 sets comfortably ... But from the third set Divij-Lu were leading 4-2 but they lost the plot from here ... Delgado-Muller started to combine well and they raised their game on crucial juncture to win this set in tie-break ... They won the fourth set with a single break and take match into the decider ... Delgado-Muller had a momentum with them and this time they dominated from start ... Delgado-Muller completed comeback victory with dominating the final set.

Purav-Marcelo fail to raise their game against seeded experienced opponents and lose their match in straight sets.

Mixed doubles draw is out and interestingly Divij is first time playing in mixed doubles ... He is partnering top-40 and last year's doubles semi-finalist Japanese Shuko Aoyama and they r playing against Vania King and Tomasz Bednarek .. Our all other three pairs r seeded and having bye in the first round ... Sania is in top draw and Rohan with Lee r in the bottom draw.

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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Xi'an, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (289) l (6) Hiroko Kuwata (JPN,236) 16 06

Doubles
[QF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Barbara Bonic (SRB) vs Jia-Jing Lu (CHN)/ Yafan Wang (CHN) 63 46 6-10

Surprisingly one-sided loss of Ankita against Kuwata ... In the doubles Ankita-Barbara started well after winning the first set but after that Chinese pair made strong comeback for winning it.
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At $15K USA F17 Futures, Oklahoma City

[QF] Srikar ALLA (IND)/ Nicholas HORTON (AUS) l (3) Jesus BANDRES (VEN)/ Gonzalo ESCOBAR (ECU) 36 36

Srikar-Nicholas fail to challenge 3rd seed South American pair.
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At $10K Thailand F7 futures, Bangkok

[R2] (1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,563) l Ko SUZUKI (JPN,1024) 26 16
[R2] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1103) l (3) Dayne KELLY (AUS,649) 36 36
[R2] Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,1257) l (5) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,759) 26 16
[R2] Ronit Singh BISHT (IND,1174) bt (WC) Suthinan TANTHASERANEEWAT (THA,UNR) 64 62

[QF] Ronit Singh BISHT (IND,1174) vs (2) Yannick Jankovits (FRA,608)

Doubles
[QF] Christopher MARQUIS (IND)/ Kelsey STEVENSON (CAN) l (3) Daniel FERRETTI (AUS)/ Aaron LEEDER-CHARD (AUS) 36 36

Only Ronit wins his match against Thai un-ranked opponent ... Otherwise another shocking one-sided loss of Vishnu against 1000+ opponent ... Ronit next meeting his doubles partner and 2nd seed Frenchman Jankovits.
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At $10K Spain F15 Futures, Palma Del Rio

[R2] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,340) bt (Q) Jorge Hernando-Ruano (ESP,911) 36 61 75

[QF] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,340) vs (7) Eduardo Struvay (COL,409)

Doubles
[SF] Jaume PLA MALFEITO (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (2) Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP)/ David VEGA-HERNANDEZ (ESP) 76(5) 63

[F] Jaume PLA MALFEITO (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) vs (3) Eduard ESTEVE LOBATO (ESP)/ Oriol ROCA BATALLA (ESP)

Ramk score excellent comeback win over Hernando-Ruano after losing the first set ... Jorge was tricky opponent but RamK stand tall to his challenge in the final set for a win ... In the quarters he is facing Colombian Struvay.

In the doubles RamK-Jaume score another upset win over 2nd seed Spanish pair in straight sets ... In the final RamK-Jaume r facing 3rd seed Spanish pair.

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