Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Tennis News

At €439K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open, Istanbul, Turkey

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Alexander Bury (BLR)/ Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) 26 36

Shocking one-sided loss for Purav-Fabrice.

At €439K BMW Open, Munich, Germany

[R1] Radek Strepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)/ Dominic Thiem (AUT) 61 67(3) 10-5

[QF] Radek Strepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (1) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)

Lee-Radek start with a win, though in match tie-break ... After winning first set Lee-Radek failed to keep momentum ... And lost the second set in tie-break but our pair recovered to win match tie-break ... Next they r facing top-seed Peya and Soares.

At $75K+H Taipei Challenger, Taiwan

[R1] (4) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (WC) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) 36 06

The fourth seed RamK-Ti Chen fail to give any challenge to wild-card local pair.

At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, Florida, USA


[R2] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,169) l Emilio Gomez (ECU,402) 46 75 46

Doubles
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Darian King (BAR)/ Matt Seeberger (USA) 63 46 10-6

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Facundo Arguello (ITA)/ Andrea Collarini (ITA)

I was hoping comfortable win but instead Buji was in dog fight ... He again show his inconsistency after losing to below top-400 unheard player ... After losing the first set Buji needed to dig deep for winning the second but he failed to keep momentum ... And lost the third set after exchanging early breaks.

In the doubles Buji-Sanam score win in match tie-breaks ... Next they r facing Italian pair.


At $50K+H An-Ning Challenger, China (red clay)

[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Boy Westerhof (NED) l James Duckworth (AUS)/ David Perez Sanz (ESP) 36 67(4)
[QF] Karunuday Singh (IND)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS) bt (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Mark Vervoort (NED) 63 64

KU and his Aussie partner in the quarters with upset win over 4th seed pair in straight sets ... Other hand really shocking loss of top-seed Divij with his Dutch partner ... I feel Divij needs to introspect his selection of doubles partner.

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