Saturday, January 24, 2015

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2015, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Jarmila Gajdosova / Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 64 67(7) 8-10

Junior Singles
[R1] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,71) bt Katie Poluta (RSA,143) 64 63
[R1] Ojasvinee Singh (IND,109) l Olivia Hauger (USA,64) 60 46 16
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,29) bt (5) Michael Mmoh (USA,7) 62 46 64

[R2] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,71) vs (1) Shilin Xu (CHN,2)
[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,29) vs Yosuke Watanuki (JPN,66)

Junior Doubles
[R1] Tamachan Momkoonthod (THA)/ Ojasvinee Singh (IND) vs Katharina Hobgarski (GER)/ Greet Minnen (BEL)
[R1] Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) vs (4) Sara Tomic (AUS)/ Shilin Xu (CHN)
[R1] Viktor Durasovic (NOR)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Renta Tokuda (JPN)/ Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN)

After losing in first round in men's doubles Mahesh fail to break trend and lose in thriller of mixed doubles first round ... After winning the first set Mahesh-Jarmila missed match points to lose in extra points of tie-break ... In match tie-break also they tried but failed to overcome challenge of Murray-Chan.

Sumit start with Australian open with huge upset win over talented American kid Michael Mmoh, who was one of title contender ... After winning the first set Sumit first time lost his serve in 10th game of second set when he was serving for staying in the set ... In the decider he take crucial break in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... He missed few match points on Mmoh's serve in 9th game before converting on sixth match point on his serve ... In next round he is facing lowly ranked Japanese opponent Yosuke Watanuki.

Expected straight sets win for Pranjala but in next round she is having really tough match against top-seed and WR #2 Chinese player Shilin Xu ... In the doubles also Pranjala with her Japanese partner are facing Shilin Xu and her partner Sara Tomic, younger sister of Bernard Tomic.

Ojasvinee Singh started well after dominating the first set but she failed to keep same momentum in the second and then lost one-sided final set.

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