Thursday, August 21, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

[Q2] (30) Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) l James McGee (IRL,195) 75 26 57
[Q2] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,390) l (7) Andreas Beck (GER,115) 75 67(3) 36

Yuki fail to capitalized chances and lose his match against Irishman James McGee .. In the first set Yuki take only crucial break in 11th game for winning this set ... From the second set Yuki's game dipped and James take full advantage of it ... In this set Yuki lose hin ser in 2nd game to down 0-3 but he broke James in 5th game for 2-3 ... Afterwards James broke him in 6th and 8th games and won this set comfortably ... In the final set Yuki was up 4-2 and had couple of break points on James serve but failed to convert ... From 3-5 Yuki lost next four games to lose this match.

Sanam's valiant efforts wasted but he gives encouraging performance against Andreas Beck ... In the first two sets he stretched Beck to fullest ... After winning the first set Sanam missed opportunity of finishing match in two sets but I m happy for his performance.

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At $710K Connecticut Open, New Haven, USA (WTA Premier)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) l Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU) 67(2) 46

Another surprising loss of Sania-Cara against unseeded Garcia-Niculescu in two sets ... Not a great preparation for US open.
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At $15K Canada F8 Futures, Winnipeg

[R2] (7) Saketh Myneni (IND,429) l Blake Mott (AUS,585) 76(3) 67(2) 46

Doubles
[QF] (2) Dimitar KUTROVSKY (BUL)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (WC) Tony LARSON (USA)/ Wyatt MCCOY (USA) w/o

Saki is still struggling with full match fitness ... In the second round he lose against 600 type ranked Blake Mott in tight three sets ... After winning the first set in tie-break Saki failed to finish the match in second set tie-break ... In the third set Mott take advantage of Saki's lack of match fitness.

Saki-Dimitar in the doubles semis without playing a single ball.

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At $15K Gabon F1 Futures , Libreville

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) bt (Q) Kryce-Didier Momo-Kassa (GAB,UNR) 61 61
[QF] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1738) l (3) Ruan Roelofse (RSA,622) 46 46

[SF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) vs (4) Arthur Surreaux (FRA,651)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (4) Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BDI)/ Arthur SURREAUX (FRA) 62 63

[F] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) vs (2) Mark FYNN (ZIM)/ Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA)

Sagar gives decent performance against Ruan Roelofse ... Jeevan continue with his good form and completes win comfortably ... Next he is facing 4th seed Frenchman Arthur Surreaux ... In the doubles Jeevan-Sam r in the final with straight sets win and they r facing 2nd seed Mark Fynn-Ruan Roelofse.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F1 Futures, Kaohsiung

[QF] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Chih-Jen HO (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE)

[SF] (3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (1) Ti CHEN (TPE)/ Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE)

Bala and Ranjeet score comfortable win over local pair ... Next they r facing local top-seed pair, who regularly play Taipei's Davis cup tie together.
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At $10K Iran F8 Futures, Tehran

[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) l (5) Matteo MARFIA (ITA,1064) 76(4) 67(5) 57

Terrific fighting performance by Sidharth against Italian, though missed opportunity after winning the first set.

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