Thursday, January 08, 2015

Tennis News

At $458K Chennai Open 2015, India

[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt (ALT) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) 67(4) 64 10-6
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Aljaz Bedene (SLO)/ Damir Dzumhur (BIH) 61 62

[QF] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) 16 61 10-7
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)/ Stan Wawrinka (SUI) 76(5) 46 10-4

[SF] (1) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)/ Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)

Purav take opportunity with Adil and he is in the semis beating Stan-Agut in super tie-break ... After winning the first round easily Purav-Adil faced Stan-Agut in the quarters ... Purav-Agut won the first set in tie-break but Stan-Agut won the second set in tie-break ... Purav-Adil recovered and won super tie-break comfortably.

But match of the day was between Lee and Mahesh with their respective partners ... After struggling against Sood brothers in their first match Mahesh-Saki were underdogs in this match ... Instead they started on positive note and dominated from beginning to take lead 3-0 breaking Raven's serve ... Again they broke Raven in sixth game to won the first set 6-1 ... Saki was in amazing form with his serve and returns ... From second set Lee raised his level of game which lifted Raven's game ... Breaking Mahesh and Saki they take 5-0 lead and won this set 6-1 ... In super tie-break both pairs failed to win a point on other's serve till first 11 points ... Saki made error near net on Mahesh's serve to gave 7-5 lead to Lee-Raven ... Saki served facing 3 match points at 6-9 ... He served big serve saving first match point but while serving to lee he committed double fault which gave match to Lee-Raven ... Next they are facing unseeded Spanish pair.

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At $1M Brisbane International, Australia (WTA Premier)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) bt Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Arina Rodionova (AUS) 63 26 11-9

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) vs Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

Rodionova sister stretch Sania and Su-Wei to fullest as in super tie-break our pair need extra points for entering into the semis.

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