Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Banglore, India

Indian Team
Somdev Devvarman, Yuki Bhambri, Rohan Bopanna and Saketh Myneni
Reserve - Ramkumar Ramanathan and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan
Captain - Anand Amritraj
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

India selects expected team for this Davis cup tie ... Serbia are also expected to send weak team as WR #1 Novak Djokovic is planning to skip this tie ... Still Serbian side having strong team like WR #60 Dusan Lajovic, WR #110 Filip Krajinovic and WR #182 Ilija Bozoljac with doubles specialist Nenad Zimonjic .. Other hand Yuki is coming out of almost 6 months heel injury ... Buji is struggling with his game and that is showing in his inconsistent results ... Rohan is struggling with his form and Saki is also coming out of couple of months injury break ... So Serbia will be favorite for this tie.
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At $3.1M Western & Southern Open - Cincinnati Masters, USA

[R2] (5) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Jack Sock (USA) 16 64 8-10

Current Wimbledon champion pair Sock-Pospisil beat Lee-Radek in match tie-break ... After losing the first set Lee-Radek fought back to win the second but failed to keep momentum in match tie-break ... So this week our both pairs, Rohan-Aisam and Lee-Radek, fail to overcome Pospisil-Sock.
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At $15K Canada F7 Futures, Calgary

[R1] (7) Saketh Myneni (IND,430) bt Marcus Daniel (NZL,517) 60 62

[R2] (7) Saketh Myneni (IND,430) vs Bjorn Fratangelo (USA,392)

Saki start with very confident win losing only two games against Daniel ... Next Saki is facing higher ranked American opponent Bjorn Fratangelo, who won US futures two weeks back ... So tough opponent, who win two futures titles in last one month.

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