Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Tennis News

At $2M ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[QF] (4) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Dominic Inglot (GBR)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) 16 36

Last week Rohan-Daniel lost their match one-sided against young Inglot-Mergea in the quarters.
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At Delray Beach International Tennis Championship 2015, USA

[R1] (2) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Marinko Matosevic (AUS) 63 76(0)

This week Lee-Raven r playing at Delray Beach ... They start with straight sets win over Jaziri-Matosevic in the first round.
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At $100K Delhi Challenger, India

[Q3] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,356) bt (8) Andrew Whittington (AUS,481) 75 64
[Q3] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,560) bt (1) Jaime Pulgar-Garcia (ESP,313) 62 62

[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (INd,) l Pedja Krstin (SRB,) 46 57
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,272) bt (Q) Richard Becker (GBR,438) 46 76(3) 64
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,262) bt (WC) Karunuday Singh (IND,499) 75 62
[QF] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,153) bt Antonio Veic (CRO,234) 46 2-0 retd.
[R1] (Q) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,560) l Nikola Metkic (CRO,266) 67(5) 76(5) 67(5)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,414) bt (2) Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,129) 75 76(2)
[R1] (Q) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,356) l (6) Luke Saville (AUS,161) 46 26
[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,564) bt Fabrice Martin (FRA,349) 61 46 62

Doubles
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (1) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) 64 75

Vijay Sundar and Bala qualified for main-draw with straight sets win in the final qualifying round ... In that Vijay Sundar scored emphatic win over top-seed Spanish player in straight sets.

In main-draw also Vijay Sundar gives valiant efforts against his Croatian opponent Metkic ... Vijay Sundar lose closely fought match in three tie-breaks ... Other hand RamK score comeback win over tricky British opponent ... Sanam also score three sets win over Frenchman and Purav's doubles partner Martin ... Yesterday Saki scored expected straight sets win over KU.

Yuki score impressive win over top-130 Russian Kudryavtsev in straight sets ... Kudryavtsev broke Yuki in 1st game of the match but afterwards Yuki played superb tennis ... First he broke Kudryavtsev for bring the set on serve and then broke Kudryavtsev in 12th game for winning first set ... In the second set he matched Kudryavtsev before taking into tie-break, which Yuki won it comfortably.

With his current form this is a lucky break for Buji as his opponent retired from the match ... Though Buji was break up in the second set after losing first ... Bala fail to pose challenge in his match against sixth seed.

In the doubles Saki-Sanam start with upset win over top-seed Purav-Fabrice in straight sets ... This is huge win considering couple of weeks ago Purav-Fabrice were reached the final of ATP tournament.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Delhi, India

[R1] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,1112) bt (Q) Katherina Lehnert (PHI,564) 36 76 60
[R1] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,242) l (Q) Olga Savchuk (UKR,263) 46 46
[R1] (WC) Prerna Bhambri (IND,846) l (4) Junri Namigata (JPN,193) 26 26
[R1] (WC) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND,489) l (7) Tadeja Majeric (SLO,235) 26 26
[R1] (WC) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,901) l Ya-Hsuan Lee (TPE,400) 16 64 26
[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,608) l (Q) Peangtarn Plipuech (THA,492) 26 46
[R1] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1008) l (Q) Cristina Ene (ROU,462) 46 5-4 retd.

[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,1112) vs (7) Tadeja Majeric (SLO,235)

Only qualifier Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal managed to win her match, otherwise all our players lose their first round matches in disappointing show.

This was Dhruthi's fourth win against higher ranked foreigners ... Before first round win she also scored huge win in the final qualifying ... She defeated current top-400 and former top-200 British player Naomi Cavaday in straights sets ... In the second round she is facing top-250 player Tadeja Majeric.

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