Sunday, September 28, 2014

Tennis News

At $1M Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

Doubles Final
(4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt (2) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS) 36 76(5) 10-5


Lee wins his 54th ATP tour title partnering Marcin Matkowski ... Marcin is Paes’ 98th different doubles partner ... Interestingly Lees has won at least one ATP World Tour title each year since 1997 and Kuala Lumpur marked his first title since winning at the 2013 US Open with Radek Stepanek.

In this match Lee-Marcin failed to break Murray-Peers but after losing the first set Lee-Marcin served strongly and won the second set in tie-break ... They continued this form in match tie-break for lifting the title.

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At $2.5M China Open, Beijing

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,141) l (2) Martin Klizan (SVK,56) 26 16

Klizan proves too strong for Buji in this one-sided match ... Again Buji stuggle against left-hander.
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At $125K+H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Rameez Junaid (AUS) vs Marc Gicquel (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

After long gap Purav is back with Rameez ... Hopefully their partnership will click.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

Singles Final
(1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt (2) Ricardo Rodriguez (VEN,360) 63 60

Congratulations to RamK for winning his sixth futures title ... This is also his fourth title this year and back to back titles in $10K futures in Turkey ... RamK dominated the match from start and won it comfortably losing only 3 games ... This is clear indication that he is dominating futures level and need to move towards next stage, i.e. challnger.

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