Thursday, June 26, 2014

Tennis News

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

Doubles
[R1] (5) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 62 76(4) 36 64
[R1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Frantisek Cermak (CZE)/ Mikhail Elgin (RUS) 76(9) 76(8) 63

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Lucie Safarova (CZE)
[R2] (5) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)
[R2] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Jack Sock (USA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Shuko Aoyama (JPN) l Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Vania King (USA) 46 46
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Timea Babos (HUN)

In big service battle Rohan-Aisam survive winning first 2 sets in tie-break and then completed win winning the third set with a break ... Next they r facing Pospisil-Sock.

Lee-Radek had tricky match against experienced pair but they start well ... They won the first set comfortably ... Rajeev-Mariusz fought back in the second but Lee-Radek wrapped the set in tie-break ... Rajeev-Mariusz kept putting pressure on Lee-Radek despite losing the second set and with a single break advantage they won the third set ... Lee-Radek didn;t handover momentum to Rajeev-Mariusz and finished this match after winning fourth set with a single break ... Next they r facing Gonzalez-Lipsky.

Divij lose his first round mixed doubles match with his Japanese partner.

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At $50K+H Nanchang Challenger, China

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN) l (3) Hsin-Han Lee (TPE)/ Ze Zhang (CHN) 26 64 6-10

Bala-Sekiguchi stretch 3rd seed pair to match tie-break but fail to win.
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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Breda, Netherlands

[R1] Prarthana Thombare (IND,352) l (Q) Nikki Luttikhuis (NED,UNR) 36 36

Poor loss against unranked qualifier.
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At $10K Thailand F7 futures, Bangkok

[QF] Ronit Singh BISHT (IND,1174) l (2) Yannick Jankovits (FRA,608) 16 26

Doubles
[QF] (1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND)/ Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) bt Shotaro GOTO (JPN)/ Ko SUZUKI (JPN) 62 62
[QF] Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Yannick JANKOVITS (FRA) bt Jirat NAVASIRISOMBOON (THA)/ Suthinan TANTHASERANEEWAT (THA) 64 62

[SF] (1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND)/ Christopher RUNGKAT (INA) vs (3) Daniel FERRETTI (AUS)/ Aaron LEEDER_CHARD (AUS)
[SF] Ronit Singh BISHT (IND)/ Yannick JANKOVITS (FRA) vs Timo NAVASIRISOMBOON (THA)/ Wishaya TRONGCHAROENCHAIKUL (THA)

Expected loss in the singles for Ronit but good win in the doubles with his French partner ... Vishu also join him in the doubles semis with comfortable win over Japanese pair.
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At $10K Spain F15 Futures, Palma Del Rio

[QF] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,340) l (7) Eduardo Struvay (COL,409) 46 46

Doubles Final
Jaume PLA MALFEITO (ESP)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (3) Eduard ESTEVE LOBATO (ESP)/ Oriol ROCA BATALLA (ESP) 76(2) 46 10-7

RamK fail to continue with his good form and lose against Colombian Struvay in straight sets.

But RamK lifts doubles title with his Spanish partner Jaume after beating 3rd seed Spanish pair in closely fought match which ended in match tie-break ... RamK-Jaume defeated 2nd, 3rd and 4th seed pairs in their last three matches before lifting the title.

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