Thursday, October 02, 2014

Tennis News

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

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)/ Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 63 61

[SF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)/ Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)

Sania-Cara score very comfortable win over 7th seed Spanish pair losing only 4 games ... In the semis they r facing unseeded French-Russian pair of Mladenovic-Pavlyuchenkova, who scored upset win over 4th seed pair.
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At $1.22M Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokyo

[QF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 36 26

2nd seed Dodig-Melo prove too strong for Lee-Rohan in their one sided loss.
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At $10K Kazakhstan F12 Futures, Shymkent

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,318) l Ivan Gakhov (RUS,911) 46 64 67(4)

Shocking loss of Jeevan against 900+ ranked Russian in three sets.
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At $10K Turkey F33 Futures , Antalya

[R2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) bt Nicolas Rosenzweig (FRA,1096) 16 63 62

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,311) vs Takashi Saito (JPN,683)

Looks like tiredness is catching up with RamK ... He wins two singles titles in two weeks so this week he is playing without much rest ... In the second round he was slow starter against 1100 ranked Frenchman ... But after losing the first set RamK fought back with vengence and won next two sets comfortably ... In the quarter final he is facing Japanese Saito.

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