Saturday, August 30, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[R2] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU)
[R2] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Jiri Vesely (CZE) 76(3) 63

Junior
[Q1] (14) Ojasvinee Singh (IND) l Alexandra Sanford (USA) 36 26

Lee-Radek score straight sets win over Lu-Vesely to enter in the third round.

Ojasvinee Singh lose convincingly her first qualifying round against lower ranked American Sanford.

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At $50K Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) l Pruchya Isarow (THA)/ Nuttanon Kadchapanan (THA) 62 46 9-11

Divij fail to capitalize on weaker opponents and lose in tight match tie-break with Uchiyama ... They started confidently and won the first set with doubles break ... After that unseeded local pair fought back and won the second set and local pair managed to keep momentum in match tie-break which they won on extra points.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Kaohsiung

[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) bt Yecong HE (CHN,2131) 75 61

[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) vs (4) Takuto NIKI (JPN,383)

Doubles
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l (4) Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE)/ Chu-Huan YI (TPE) 46 16

Bala enter into the semis with straight sets win over his Chinese opponent ... Next he is facing top-400 Japanese Takuto Niki ... In the doubles Bala-Ranjeet face surprising straight sets loss against local pir.
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At $15K Gabon F2 Futures , Libreville

[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) bt (6) Sander Gille (BEL,1053) 63 62

[SF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) vs (3) Ruan Roelofse (RSA,591)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (3) Hassan NDAYISHIMIYE (BDI)/ Arthur SURREAUX (FRA) 60 60

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

Jeevan score comfortable win over Belgian Gille ... Next he is facing South African former top-400 player Roelofse.

In the doubles Jeevan-Sam gives double bagel to their 3rd seed opponents ... In the final they r facing 2nd seed Fynn-Roelofse.

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At $10K Iran F9 Futures, Tehran

[QF] (6) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) l (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451) 26 16

One sided loss for Vijay Sundar against top-500 Frenchman.

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