Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

[Q1] (24) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) l Ernesto Escobedo (USA,509) 36 26

Shocking one-sided loss of Buji against 18 yrs old American Escobedo ... Frustrating game from Buji, he was spraying ground-strokes all over place ... I think it was complete lack of focus and concentration from him ... Totally unexplained how he lost this important match against futures level player.
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At $710K Connecticut Open, New Haven, USA (WTA Premier)

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Karolina Pliskova (CZE)/ Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 67(3) 76(2) 10-7

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU)

Turn to be surprisingly tough match for Sania-Cara against Pliskova twins ... After losing the first set in tie-break they needed to dig deep for winning the second tie-break ... This time they managed to keep momentum in match tie-break for completing the win ... In the quarters they r facing Garcia-Niculescu.
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At $598K Winston-Salem Open, USA
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[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ David Marrero (ESP) l Sam Groth (AUS)/ Chris Guccione (AUS) 67(5) Retd.

Turn to be disappointing day as Lee-Marrero retired from their match after losing the first set tie-break against Aussie pair.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F1 Futures, Kaohsiung

[R1] (Q) Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1639) l Takashi SAITO (JPN,712) 36 26
[R1] (4) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,301) l Chih-Jen HO (TPE,1045) 64 57 Retd.

Doubles
[R1] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Liang Yu Richard LIN (TPE)/ Tung-lin WU (TPE) 62 63
[R1] Christopher MARQUIS (IND)/ David Agung SUSANTO (INA) l Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE)/ Cheng-Yu YU (TPE) 26 16
[R1] (2) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Andrew WHITTINGTON (AUS) l Yuichi ITO (JPN)/ Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) 67(7) 36

RamK is injured and retired from the match after losing the second set ... He also lose his doubles match.
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At $15K Gabon F1 Futures , Libreville

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) bt (Q) Emiliano Franco Vecchia (ARG,UNR) 61 61
[R1] Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1663) bt (LL) Jose-Maria Cortes-Gonzalez (ESP) 60 61
[R1] Jatin Dahiya (IND,1736) l (4) Arthur Surreaux (FRA,655) 46 36
[R1] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1738) bt (Q) Paterne Ogombe (GAB,UNR) 61 61
[R1] Neishit Vakil (IND,UNR) l (3) Ruan Roelofse (RSA,622) 06 06

[R2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) vs Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1663)
[R2] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1738) vs Stefan Merunka (CRO,1739)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Neishit VAKIL (IND)/ Emiliano Franco VECCHIA (ARG) 61 61
[R1] Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND) bt Medhir GOYAL (IND)/ Paterne OGOMBE (GAB) 63 62
[R1] Utsarg GROVER (IND)/ Florentin MEYNIE (FRA) l (4) Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BRU)/ Arthur SURREAUX (FRA) 26 16
[R1] Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Karim KADRY (EGY) bt Herve ANTCHANDIE (FRA)/ Darvel Valency LOSSANGOYE (GAB) 46 62 11-9

[QF] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) vs Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)
[QF] Sagar AHUJA (IND)/ Karim KADRY (EGY) vs (2) Mark FYNN (ZIM)/ Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA)

Jeevan, Neeraj and Sagar r in the second round.
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At $10K Iran F8 Futures, Tehran

[R1] Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,UNR) l Shotaro GOTO (JPN,1303) 36 06
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) bt Anoosha SHAHGHOLI (IRI,1570) 76(4) 67(2) 76(5)
[R1] (6) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) bt Muhammad-Ashaari BIN ZAINAL-ABIDIN (MAS,NR) 60 40 Retd

[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) vs (5) Matteo MARFIA (ITA,1064)
[R2] (6) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) vs Barkin YALCINKALE (TUR,1286)

Sidharth plays epic match against local player for a win and join Vinakay in the second round.