Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Zarina Diyas (KAZ)/ Yi-Fan Xu (CHN) 61 1-0 retd.

[SF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA)

Junior
[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,56) l (7) Duck Hee Lee (KOR,10) 26 26

Duck Hee Lee is one year younger than Sumit but he is showing tremendous improvement in his game than last year and it is showing in result ... He comfortably defeated Sumit in the second round ... Sumit is out of US open after withdrawal of his doubles partner Daniel Appelgren due to injury.

Sania-Cara dominated the first set before their opponents retired after first game of the second set ... In the semis they r facing Hingis-Pennetta pairing.

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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Elias Ymer (SWE) w/o
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (WC) Yan Bai (CHN)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN) 64 64

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) vs Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luca Vanni (ITA)

Divij-Yuki start with straight sets win over local wild-card pair ... Next they r facing Italian pair of Fabbiano-Vanni ... Buji and Sanam receive walkover as their one of opponent Elias Ymer retired due to body cramps.
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At $10K Iran F10 Futures, Tehran

[R1] (8) Akash WAGH (IND,1047) bt (WC) Mohammad KAREGARAN (IRI,UNR) 61 61
[R1] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) bt Mark VERVOORT (NED,1740) 63 60
[R1] Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083) bt Tejas CHAUKULKAR (IND,UNR) 64 26 63
[R1] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) bt (Q) Oleksandr GOROVYTS (UKR,UNR) 57 63 63

[R2] (8) Akash WAGH (IND,1047) vs Shotaro GOTO (JPN,1303)
[R2] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) vs Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1083)
[R2] Sidharth RAWAT (IND,1268) vs (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451)

Expected first round wins for Indian players though Vinayak and Sidharth stretched to three sets.

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