Saturday, August 30, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[R2] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU) 61 62

[R3] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Jelena Jankovic (SRB)/ Klara Koukalova (CZE)
[R3] (6) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) vs (11) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 62 76(8)
[R2] (3) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 61 46 10-4

[QF] (3) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Abigail Spears (USA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)

In their previous meeting before US open Sania-Cara lost their match against Garcia-Niculescu at New Haven ... But here Sania-Cara dominate the match and score really convincing win losing only three games ... In the thrid round they r facing unseeded pair of Jelena Jankovic and Klara Koukalova.

In mixed doubles Sania and Lee r in the quarters with their respective partners ... Sania-Bruno won the first set comfortably against Casey-Jamie but in the second set British-Australian pair stretched Sania-Bruno to extra points in tie-break ... Lee-Cara also started dominating fashion and won the first set losing only single game ... Aisam-Alla turned table in the second set and won it with a single break but Cara-Lee recovered in match tie-break and won it comfortably ... In the quarters they r facing unseeded American-Mexican pair of Abigail Spears and Santiago Gonzalez.

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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Kaohsiung

[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) bt (4) Takuto NIKI (JPN,383) 46 64 76(2)

[F] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,316) vs (3) Karen KHACHANOV (RUS,379)

Bala score hard fought win over Takuto Niki in more than three hours long match ... After losing the first set Bala was break down before he made superb comeback for a win ... Next he is facing 3rd seed Russian Karen Khachanov.
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At $15K Gabon F2 Futures , Libreville

[SF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,295) l (3) Ruan Roelofse (RSA,591) 67(4) 36

Doubles Final
(1) Sam BARRY (IRL)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (2) Mark FYNN (ZIM)/ Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) 76(5) 63

So another loss in the singles semi-final for Jeevan, this time against Ruan ... After losing the first set in tie-break Jeevan failed to raise his game in the second against Ruan.

In the doubles Jeevan lifts another title with Sam, this is their second title in two weeks.

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