Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Tennis News

At $3.1M Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada

[R2] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l Richard Gasquet (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 67(1) 46
[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (5) Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Édouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 57 46

Both matches were tricky against French pairs but still wasn't expected losses in both matches ... Lee-Radek were 0-5 down in the first set but they crawled back winning next 5 games before losing this set in tie-break ... In the second set also French pair kept advantage and won it with a single break ... Rohan-Aisam tried hard against French open champions but failed to overcome challenge of Benneteau and Roger-Vasselin.
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At $2.4M Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Karolina Pliskova (CZE)/ Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 64 76(1)

Sania-Cara start their campaign with straight sets win over Pliskova sisters ... In the second set Pliskova sis tried to match Sania-Cara but our pair won tie-break comfortably for completing victory.
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At $100K Aptos Challenger, USA

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ante Pavic (CRO) l Andrea Collarini (ARG)/ Cesar Ramirez (MEX) 67(6) 64 9-11
[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Chase Buchanan (USA)/ Rhyne Williams (USA) 62 61
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Kevin King (USA) bt (Q) Emilio Gomez (ECU)/ Ze Zhang (CHN) 63 64

Sanam-Purav start with dominating win over American pair losing only three games ... Divij-Kevin also start with win against qualifiers in straight sets ... Buji-Ante lose very close match, in that they lost two tie-breaks in extra points.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F11 Futures, Astana

[R2] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,906) l (5) Karen KHACHANOV (RUS,392) 16 16
[R2] (4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) bt Roman KHASSANOV (KAZ,952) 62 61

[QF] (4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) vs (7) Andrey RUBLEV (RUS,461)

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

[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs Sagadat AYAP (KAZ)/ Djurabeck KARIMOV (UZB)

Bala score dominating win over his Kazakh opponent ... Next he is facing talented 16 yrs old and junior WR #1 Russian Andrey Rublev, who is already in top-500 ranking ... Tough match for Bala.

Ranjeet surrender easily against 5th seed Russian ... In the doubles Ranjeet-Bala r in the semis as they receive walkover.

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At $10K USA F23 Futures, Edwardsville

[QF] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Patrick Davidson (GBR) bt Yuanfeng Li (CHN)/ Michael Riechmann (USA) 64 62

[SF] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Patrick Davidson (GBR) vs Hunter Reese (USA)/ Jack Schipanski (AUS)

Comfortable win for Saki and Patrick against Chinese-American pair ... Next they r facing another unseeded American-Australian pair.
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At World Junior Tennis Championship - Girls (G14), Prostějov, Czech Republic

Group A

India l (6) Russia 0-3
Shivani Ingle l Olesya Pervushina 06 36
Sathwika Sama l Anastasia Potapova 06 06
Aarja Chakraborty/ Sathwika Sama l Olesya Pervushina/ Anastasia Potapova 06 16

Our girls having terrible draw as they r in group with top-seed USA (we already lose against them), 6th seed Russia and Spain ... These all teams r good on clay so our players r struggling to cope with their opponents superiority on clay.

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