Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Tennis News

At $1.65M Citi Open, Washington DC, USA

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) bt Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 61 76(4)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (4) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 64 67(8) 8-10

Lee start with straight sets win with his new partner Samuel Groth ... Rohan-Aisam miss opportunity of upsetting 4th seed as after winning the first set they had match point in the second set tie-break ... After losing the second set they lost match tie-break also.
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At $250K Citi Open, Washington DC, USA

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) l Jocelyn Rae (GBR)/ Anna Smith (GBR) 46 36

Shocking loss for Sania-Cara against young British pair ... So bad start of US hard court season for Sania-Cara.
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At $100K Vancouver Challenger, Canada

[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)/ James Cerretani (USA) 64 46 8-10

These days Divij is failing to perform as per his ranking ... Another loss for him with Adil, in this match also Divij-Adil started with winning the first set ... But afterwards they lost the plot and before losing the match tie-break they lose the second set.
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At $50K+H Segovia Challenger, USA

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,313) bt (4) Gregoire Burquier (FRA,169) 26 64 64

[R2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,313) l Gerard Garnollers (ESP,268) 61 36 26

Solid comeback upset win by Jeevan against top-175 French player Gregoire Burquier ... After that interesting to see his performance in next match as previously after scoring upset win Jeevan failed to took advantage.

And somehow same repeats in the second round ... Jeevan started confidently after dominating the first set but again he failed to close the match and lose next two sets quite easily.

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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Nanchang, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,285) l (1) Luksika Kumkhum (THA,110) 06 26

Frankly didn't expected this one-sided loss for Ankita.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F10 Futures, Astana

[R1] (Q) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,904) l Andrei VASILEVSKI (BLR,612) 63 46 36
[R1] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,383) bt (Q) Sagadat AYAP (KAZ,2240) 61 36 62

[R2] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,383) bt (Q) Edan LESHEM (ISR,1495) 76(4) 26 76(4)

[QF] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,383) vs (2) Ti CHEN (TPE,264)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Adil ELTAEV (KAZ)/ Nurtazin KHAIRULLA (KAZ) 63 61

[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Oran REZNIK (ISR)/ Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ)

Surprisingly tougher wins by Bala against qualifiers ... Next he is facing 2nd seed Ti Chen.

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