Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Tennis News

At €1.46M Swiss Indoor, Basel, Switzerland

[R1] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Marin Draganja (RO)/ Henri Kontinen (FIN) 36 67(4)

[QF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) l (2) Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 76(8) 57 4-10

Lee-Marcin loses in match tie-break against Zimo-Pospisil ... Lee-Marcin won the first set in tight tie-break but Zimo-Pospisil fought back to win the second set and then dominated match tie-break.

Rohan-Daniel get upset by Draganja-Kontinen in straight sets.

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At $50K+H Pune Challenger, India

[R2] (SE) Saketh Myneni (IND,283) bt (5) Hiroki Moriya (JPN,154) 61 62
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,179) bt Germain Gigounon (BEL,284) 75 64
[R2] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,619) l (8) Kimmer Coppejans (BEL,199) 26 63 36
[R2] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,139) l Adam Pavlasek (CZE,258) 36 67(3)
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,365) l (6) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP,155) 16 26
[R1] (Q) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,674) l (2) Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,125) 06 67(5)

[QF] (SE) Saketh Myneni (IND,283) vs (1) Alexander Nedovyesov (KAZ,113)
[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,179) vs (4) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,144)

Doubles
[QF] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 67(4) 36
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) 76(2) 62

[SF] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)

Yuki need to dig deep against Germain Gigounon for his tight win in two sets ... In this match Yuki struggled with his first serve but still he battled out ... Next he is facing another Japanese #144 ranked Yuichi Sugita.

Saki continue with his terrific form and he beats 150+ ranked Japanese Moriya comfortably ... Saki lose only three games into the match before disposing Moriya ... Next he is facing top-seed Alexander Nedovyesov, their repeat match of last week's final.

Buji's bad form continues and he again lose against lower ranked opponent in the second round ... Buji failed to put pressure on Pavlasek's serve in this match ... After losing first set 0-6 Vijay Sundar recovered but lose the second set in tie-break.

In the doubles Buji-Vijay Sundar lose against Ratiwatanas in straights sets ... Sanam-Saki score upset win over 2nd seed Divij-Yuki ... After winning first set in tie-break Sanam-Saki dominated the second set ... In the semis they r facing Japanese pair.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Phuket, Thailand

[R2] (Q) Natasha PALHA (IND,492) l Yuuki TANAKA (JPN,450) 36 64 26

Natasha fail to keep momentum and lose Tanaka in three sets.

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