Sunday, June 08, 2014

Tennis News

At €711K Aegon Championships, London, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,96) vs Kenny De Schepper (NED,72)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bye
[R1] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bye

Buji is having tough match against last year's Wimbledon pre-quarter finalist De Schepper.

Lee is making his comeback on the tour ...Lee-Radek r 4th seed and in top draw with Bryans ... In the second round they will face winner between Nicholas Monroe-Vasek Pospisil and Marin Cilic-Andre Sa.

Rohan-Aisam r 5th seed and in bottom draw ... In the second round they will face winner between Aussies Chris Guccione-Lleyton Hewitt and Jeremy Chardy-Dmitry Tursunov.

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At $50K Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,302) vs (WC) Rasul Akhmadaliev (UZB,1701)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,322) vs (4) Denys Molchanov (UKR,265)
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,325) vs (3) Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO,209)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN)
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) vs Egor Gerasimov (BLR)/ Denis Matsukevich (RUS)

Bala and Saki r playing against seeded opponents ... Bala is having really tough match ... Jeevan is facing local wild-card player.

Our both pairs r in bottom draw.

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At $75K Nottingham-2 Challenger, England (Grass)

[Q2] Purav Raja (IND,1167) l (2) Nick Kyrgios (AUS,160) 06 16

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) vs Nick Kyrgios (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)/ Go Soeda (JPN)

Loss was expected but hammering wasn't.

In the doubles also Purav is facing Kyrgios and his partner ... Tricky match again ... Divij is having good partner in Paul Hanley on the grass but then also he need to break his first round losing jinx sooner than later.

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