Tennis News

At $5.4M China Open, Beijing (WTA Premier)

[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bye
[R2] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) w/o

Without hitting ball Sania-Cara r in quarter final of this Premier event.
-----------------------------------------------------------
At $1.22M Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (WC) Tatsuma Ito (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 61 76(6)

[QF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA)

Lee-Rohan start with straight sets win over Japanese pair though they were stretched in the second set ... Next they r facing 2nd seed Melo-Dodig.
-----------------------------------------------------------
At $125K+H Mons Challenger, Belgium

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Rameez Junaid (AUS) l Marc Gicquel (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 16 46

Purav-Rameez fail to challenge French experienced pair.
-----------------------------------------------------------
At $10K Kazakhstan F12 Futures, Shymkent

[R1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,318) bt (LL) Anton Djamalov (UZB,1858) 61 64
[R2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,318) bt Sagadat Ayap (KAZ,1733)

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,318) vs Ivan Gakhov (RUS,911)

Jeevan is playing Kazakh futures ... He start with comfortable wins against lowly ranked local players in first 2 rounds.
-----------------------------------------------------------
At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Young Seok Kim (KOR,943) 76(4) 64

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA,1096)

RamK wins tight match in two sets against Korean opponent ... Next he is facing French journeyman.