Sunday, August 03, 2014

Tennis News

At $1.65M Citi Open, Washington DC, USA

[SF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) bt (WC) Steve Johnson (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 46 63 10-8

[F] Leander Paes (IND)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) vs Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

Lee-Groth produce excellent comeback win against American pair ... After losing the first set Lee-Groth fought back to win the second ... American pair tried hard in the match tie-break but our pair kept momentum for winning it ... In the final they r facing Dutch-Romanian pair of Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
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At $3.1M Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada

[R1] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bye
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA)

Lee-Radek r sixth seed and having first round bye ... They r in top-draw with Bryans.

Rohan-Aisam r unseeded and facing Butorac-Klaasen in the first round.

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At $100K Aptos Challenger, USA

[Q1] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,400) bt Clay Thompson (USA,2183) 76(6) 63

[Q2] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,400) vs David Hsu (USA,UNR)

[R1] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,132) vs John-Patrick Smith (AUS,172)

Buji is back on pro tour after a month break for WTT and facing Australian John-Patrick Smith.

Sanam is playing in qualifying ... After winning the first round he is facing unseeded Hsu.

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At $15K Kazakhstan F10 Futures, Astana

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (2) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) / Denis MATSUKEVITCH (RUS) 62 64

Bala-Ranjeet comfortably win the title in Kazakh futures beating 2nd seed Huang-Denis.

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