Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Tennis News

At $3.1M Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Eric Butorac (USA)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA) 26 63 10-4

[R2] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs Richard Gasquet (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)
[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Édouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

Nice comeback win by Rohan-Aisam against Butorac-Klaasen ... After losing the first set easily Rohan-Aisam made strong comeback ... They won the second set comfortably and then dominated match tie-break ... Next our both pairs r facing French pairs.
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At $2.4M Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Karolina Pliskova (CZE)/ Kristyna Pliskova (CZE)

Sania-Cara r facing Pliskova sisters in the second round.
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At $100K Aptos Challenger, USA

[R1] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,132) bt John-Patrick Smith (AUS,172) 76(5) 75
[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,402) l (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,110) 46 75 57

Sanam play really good match against top-100 type Donskoy but fail to convert in a win ... In the first set he was matching Donskoy but he struggled with his weak second serve ... Donskoy won the set with a single break advantage ... In the second set Donskoy was leading 2-4 but after that Sanam won 5 games from next 6 ... In that he broke Donskoy twice for winning this set ... In the final set both players hold their respective service games till 10 the game though Sanam was struggling to hold ... Donskoy take crucial break in 11th game and then hold for winning the match.

Buji need two tight sets to win his first round against John-Patrick Smith ... After winning the first set in tie-break Buji was leading 4-2 and from here Smith tried comeback ... He broke Buji in 7th game for 3-4 but Buji again broke him in 8th game to lead 5-3 ... Smith again broke Buji in 9th game for 4-5 but after that Buji broke Smith in 12th game for winning this match.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Koksijde, Belgium

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,277) bt (8) Ysaline Bonaventure (BEL,249) 61 26 64

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,277) vs Irina Ramialison (FRA,286)

Doubles
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Ganna Poznikhirenko (UKR) l (WC) Elyne Boeykens (BEL)/ Morgane Michiels (BEL) 46 26

Ankita start with upset win over local 8th seed in three sets but she fails to continue same performance in the doubles and lose match against local wild-card pair ... In the singles Ankita is facing similar ranked French girl Irina Ramialison.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F11 Futures, Astana

[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,906) bt Denis YEVSEYEV (KAZ,584) 61 64
[R1] (4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) bt Oran REZNIK (ISR,1495) 63 64

[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,906) vs (5) Karen KHACHANOV (RUS,392)
[R2] (4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) vs Roman KHASSANOV (KAZ,952)

Doubles
[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Kaysar BEKIMOV (KAZ)/ Roman KHASSANOV (KAZ) 61 62

[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Oran REZNIK (ISR)/ Daniel SKRIPNIK (ISR)

Ranjeet score upset win over below 600 ranked Kazakh player in straight sets and joins Bala in the second round ... In the doubles also Ranjeet-Bala start with easy win.
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At $10K USA F23 Futures, Edwardsville

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt (LL) Hayden Sabatka (USA,UNR) 63 64

Doubles
[R1] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Patrick Davidson (GBR) bt (WC) Andrew G. Goodwin (USA)/ Stuart Kenyon (GBR) 63 36 11-9

So winning start for Yuki and Saki in contrasting manners after long injury break in their respective matches ... Good to see they r getting match practice.

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