Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[R1] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Karolina Pliskova (CZE)/ Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 63 60
[R1] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA) 76(5) 62
[R1] (13) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) 67(10) 64 67(5)

[R2] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jiri Vesely (CZE)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Tornado Alicia Black (USA)/ Ernesto Escobedo (USA) 62 36 10-5
[R1] (6) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Lauren Davis (USA)/ Nicholas Monroe (USA)
[R1] (3) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)

Sania-Cara score comfortable win over Pliskova twins ... Other hand Rohan-Aisam lose against Italian pair in titanic battle of two and half hours ... In the first set Rohan-Aisam missed set points and that cost them this match ... Lee-Radek need tie-break for winning the first set ... But after winning the first set Lee-Radek dominated the second set and won it with double breaks.

In mixed doubles our all pairs r higher seeded, so hopefully they will perform as per their seeding ... Sania and Bruno stretch to match tie-break by young American pair of Black and Escobedo in the first round.
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At $50K Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1125) bt (Q) Chaleechan Tanasugarn (THA,UNR) 36 62 61
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,298) l (3) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 67(5) 67(4)

[R2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1125) l (3) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 67(3) 26

Doubles
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) bt Jason Jung (USA)/ Nicolas Meister (USA) 63 62
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Jaime Pulgar-Garcia (ESP) vs (2) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Hsien-Yu Peng (TPE) 63 2-4 stopped due to rain

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) vs (WC) Chaleechan Tanasugarn (THA)/ Warot Udomsuk (THA)

Sasi score expected his first win of challenger level before losing to Vanni in the second round ... In the doubles Divij-Yasutaka start with a win but RamK-Jamie's match again interrupts due to rain.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Kaohsiung

[R1] (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,1663) bt (Q) Shao-Yu YU (TPE,UNR) 63 63
[R1] (Q) Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1639) l (3) Karen KHACHANOV (RUS,381) 36 16
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,884) bt Chih-Chun TANG (TPE,1202) 62 61
[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) bt (WC) Wei-De LIN (TPE,UNR) 62 61

[R2] (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,1663) vs (1) Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE,247)
[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,884) vs (5) Andrew WHITTINGTON (AUS,428)
[R2] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) vs Cheng-Yu YU (TPE,903)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Masato SHIGA (JPN)/ Ko SUZUKI (JPN) 62 62
[R1] Christopher MARQUIS (IND)/ Chih-Jen HO (TPE) bt Kuan-Yi LEE (TPE)/ Hao-Yang HU (TPE) 63 64
[R1] Sagar MANJANNA (IND)/ Suraj R PRABODH (IND) l Yecong HE (CHN)/ Yue ZHANG (CHN) 67(6) 36

[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Christopher MARQUIS (IND)/ Chih-Jen HO (TPE)

Christopher joins Bala and Ranjeet in the second round ... In the doubles also our those three players in the quarters.
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At $15K Gabon F2 Futures , Libreville

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) bt Willy Lebendje (GAB,UNR) 60 64
[R1] (LL) Neishit Vakil (IND,UNR) l (7) Mark Fynn (ZIM,1046) 16 06
[R1] Jatin Dahiya (IND,1745) bt Joshua Rollins (USA,UNR) 62 61
[R1] (Q) Medhir Goyal (IND,UNR) l Karim Kadry (EGY,1402) 26 16
[R1] Neeraj Elangovan (IND,1675) l Aaron Cortes Alcaraz (ESP,2143) 36 26
[R1] Sagar Ahuja (IND,1747) l (2) Sam Barry (IRL,337) 26 46

[R2] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) bt Herve Antchandie (FRA,UNR) 60 62
[R2] Jatin Dahiya (IND,1745) vs (7) Mark Fynn (ZIM,1046)

[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) vs (6) Sander Gille (BEL,1053)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bye
[R1] Medhir Goyal (IND)/ Neishit Vakil (IND) l Joe COOPER (GBR)/ Stefan MERUNKA (CRO) 06 26
[R1] Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Sagar AHUJA (IND) bt Neeraj ELANGOVAN (IND)/ Karim KADRY (EGY) 63 62
[R1] Utsarg GROVER (IND)/ Florentin MEYNIE (FRA) l (4) Matias CASTRO (ARG)/ Sander GILLE (BEL) w/o

[QF] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) vs (WC) Herve ANTCHANDIE (FRA)/ Darvel Valency LOSSANGOYE (GAB)
[QF] Jatin DAHIYA (IND)/ Sagar AHUJA (IND) vs (4) Matias CASTRO (ARG)/ Sander GILLE (BEL)

With comfortable wins Jeevan is in the quarters ... Jatin having tough second round ... In the doubles Jeevan and Jatin r in the quarters with their respective partners.
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At $10K Iran F9 Futures, Tehran

[R1] Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,UNR) l (7) Arkadiusz KOCYLA (POL,888) 36 46
[R1] Akash WAGH (IND,1047) l Gokberk ERGENEMAN (TUR,1684) 26 26
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) l (4) Markos KALOVELONIS (GRE,794) 64 67(5) 26
[R1] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) bt Berk ILIESCU (TUR,1730) 62 61
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) l (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451) 46 46

[R2] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) vs Omid SOURI (ISR,UNR)

Only Vijay Sundar manages to cross the first hurdle.