Sunday, August 31, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (6) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA) 63 64

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) vs (6) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND)

Junior
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,56) vs (Q) Viktor Durasovic (NOR,60)

Rohan-Katarina score straight sets win over Anabel Medina Garrigues and Raven Klaasen ... In the quarters they r facing top-seed Sania-Bruno.

This year Sumit is playing in junior US open and having favorable first draw as he is facing similar ranked Norwegian.

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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1125) bt Fajing Sun (CHN,1859) 63 64
[Q1] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,396) bt Luyao Wang (CHN,1639) 63 63

[Q2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,1125) vs (4) Keto Takeuchi (JPN,432)
[Q2] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,396) vs Congsup Concar (THA,2067)

[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs Qualifier
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) vs Ti Chen (TPE,252)

Buji and Yuki r playing in Shanghai challenger in preparation for 12th September Davis cup tie against Serbia ... Yuki is facing Taipei's experienced player Ti Chen and Buji is facing qualifier in the first round ... In qualifying Sanam is top-seed and he stat with comfortable win ... Next he is facing lower ranked Thai opponent ... Sasi is also win his match comfortably against local player but hext he is facing top-500 Japanese opponent.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Kaohsiung

Singles Final
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) l (3) Karen KHACHANOV (RUS,379) 76(4) 46 36

Bala fail to lift another futures title but still overall encouraging performance by him ... In the final he won the first set in tie-break but after that failed to keep momentum and Russian take advantage of it with wining next two sets.

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