Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2015, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ John Peers (AUS) 62 62
[QF] (7) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (4) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Alexander Peya (AUT) 63 61

Junior Singles
[R3] Sumit Nagal (IND,29) l Marc Polmans (AUS,49) 16 16

Sumit fail to raise his game against local Marc Polmans and lose one-sided match.

In mixed doubles Sania-Bruno and Lee-Martina score comfortable wins for entering into the semis.

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At $50K Hongkong Challenger,

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,262) bt (1) Ricardas Berankis (LTU,85) 76 16 63
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,284) bt (Q) Yan Bai (CHN,416) 36 64 4-1 retd.
[R1] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,139) bt Yuki Bhambri (IND,317) 26 64 63
[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,417) l (Q) Christopher Rungkat (INA,653) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) 46 63 10-4
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Di Wu (CHN) l Radu Albot (MDA)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) 36 63 5-10
[R1] (2) Frank Moser (GER)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 75 61

Saki score his only 2nd win over top-100 win when he beat top-seed Ricardas Berankis in three sets ... Saki dominated first set tie-break with his big serve and comfortably won it losing a single point but Ricardas fought back in the second to win it losing only single game ... In the final set Saki take crucial break in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that lead through out the set ... Saki had three set points on Ricardas's serve in 8th game but failed to convert ... On his own serve he converted 5th set point for excellent win ... In the second round he is facing RamK.

Ramkumar score excellent comeback win over Chinese qualifier ... Ramkumar was no where in the match till one and half set ... After losing the first set he was double break down at 0-4 but after that he won 10 of next 11 games for amazing comeback before Bai retiring from the match.

Buji score excellent comeback and hard fought win against Yuki ... In this match Yuki struggled with his serve and Buji proved better player from back of the court ... After losing the first set Buji played very solid tennis to beat Yuki.

Sanam was playing his first competitive match after three months and that displayed in his result ... Disappointing loss for Sanam but in the doubles he has winning start with Saki as they score comeback win over Purav and his partner ... Divij with Moser also move into quarters with straight sets win.

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