Tennis News

At $4.2M Shanghai Rolex Masters, China

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs (WC) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Li Zhe (CHN)
[R1] Florin Mergea (ROU)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA)

This week Rohan is playing with new Romanian partner Florin Mergea and they r facing Fognini-Ram ... Lee is again partnering Polish Marcin Matkowski and they r facing local wild-card pair.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Bangkok, Thailand

[Q1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) l (6) Pei-Chi LEE (TPE) 36 61 46
[Q1] (10) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Yulia BRYZGALOVA (RUS) 64 67(2) 63

[Q2] (10) Natasha PALHA (IND,501) bt (6) Pei-Chi LEE (TPE,439) 64 76(4)

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,296) vs Ipek SOYLU (TUR,307)
[R1] (Q) Natasha PALHA (IND,501) vs (WC) Olga FRIDMAN (UKR,750)

Natasha score couple of fighting win for qualifying for main-draw ... But Natasha and Ankita having tough matches against talented junior players ... Natasha is playing against current top-20 Ukrainian junior player and Ankita is playing against talented Turkish 18 year player who was former top-15 in juniors.