Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Tennis News

At $519K Heineken Open 2015, Auckland, New Zealand

[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,314) bt (15) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,129) 46 61 76(6)
[Q1] (22) Somdev Devvarman (IND,139) l Austin Krajicek (USA,154) 46 63 46
[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,284) vs Nils Langer (GER,254) 57 64 46

[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,314) vs Yohishito Nishioka (JPN,165)

Yuki score comeback win against in-form Russian and top-130 player Evgeny Donskoy ... After losing the first set Yuki made strong comeback ... With double break he take 5-0 lead in the second set before winning it ... In the final set both players hold respective serve till tie-break ... And in tie-break only mini-break which Yuki take on 13th point then he won point on his own serve for competing victory ... Next he is facing Japanese Nishioka, against whom Yuki lose in their last meeting at Asian games semi-final.

Other hand our other two players who had winnable matches, lose their respective matches ... Our both players tried comeback after losing the first set ... But after winning the second set they failed to keep momentum in the final set.

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At $519K Heineken Open 2015, Auckland, New Zealand

[R1] (4) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS) 76(3) 46 10-6

[QF] (4) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Oliver Marach (AUT)

Turn to be surprisingly tough match for Lee and Raven but importantly they r winning these type of matches ... Next they r facing Lu, he was half part of pair who defeated them at Chennai open, but with different partner Austrian Marach.
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At $494K Apia International Sydney, Australia

[QF] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA) 75 63

[SF] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (1) Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

In end comfortable straight sets win for Rohan-Daniel against Italian pair ... In the semis they r facing top-seed French pair.
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At $731K Apia International Sydney, Australia (WTA Premier)

[QF] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (2) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 63 63

[SF] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)/ Karolina Pliskova (CZE)

Sania-Bethanie score dominating win against 2nd seed Hingis-Pennetta in straight sets ... Next they r facing similar unseeded pairing of Kimiko Date-Krumm and Karolina Pliskova, who also score upset win over 4th seed pair.
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At $50K Casablanca Challenger, Morocco

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) bt Ivo Klec (SVK) / Gero Kretschmer (GER) 75 61

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) vs Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Adrian Ungur (ROU)

Another straight sets win for Purav and Martin ... In the semis they r facing unseeded pair of Grigelis-Ungur.

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