Thursday, April 09, 2015

Tennis News

At $549K US Men's Clay Court Championship 2015, Houston

[R1] (Alt) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Donald Young (USA) 36 16

Somi-Sanam get chance as alternate pair but lose easily against Swedish-American pair.
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At €494K Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 46 76(4) 10-4

[SF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Pablo Andujar (ESP)/ Oliver Marach (AUT)

Rohan-Florin need to dig deep for this comeback victory over tricky Spanish pair ... After losing first set our pair needed to win the second set tie-break but after that they dominated match tie-break with big serving ... In the semis they r facing unseeded Spanish Pablo Andujar and Austrian Oliver Marach.
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At $50K Batman Cup, Turkey

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) l (5) Radu Albot (MDA,145) 67(3) 57

Doubles
[QF] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) l Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL)/ Alexandar Lazov (BUL) 63 67(7) 7-10

Turn to be disappointing day for Indians as RamK lose his singles match and Saki and his partner lose in match tie-break against Bulgarian pair.

Tomorrow in the quarters Saki is facing 19 rls old and former junior WR #1 Serbian Nikola Milojevic.

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At $15K Uzbekistan F1 Futures , Karshi

[QF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,251) bt (5) Anton Zaitcev (RUS,365) 63 60

[SF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,251) vs Karen Khachanov (RUS,275)

Yuki score dominating win over his Russian opponent ... Next he is playing challenger level match against top-300 young Karen Khachanov.
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At ITF Junior Fed Cup u-16 - Asia/ Oceania Final Qualifying, Shepparton, Australia (grass)

Group C
(3) India bt (7) Kazakhstan 2-1

MIHIKA YADAV bt AIGERIM SULEIMEN 62 61
ZEEL DESAI bt ZHIBEK KULAMBAYEVA 64 63
JENNIFER LUIKHAM / MIHIKA YADAV l DARYA DETKOVSKAYA/ZHIBEK KULAMBAYEVA 26 67(6)

Our girls win both singles comfortably for securing top spot in group.
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At ITF Junior Davis Cup u-16 - Asia/ Oceania Final Qualifying, Shepparton, Australia (grass)

Group B
(6) India l (2) Australia 0-3

PARIKSHIT SOMANI l BLAKE ELLIS 26 26
NITIN KUMAR SINHA l ALEX DE MINAUR 16 62
NITIN KUMAR SINHA / PARIKSHIT SOMANI l ALEX DE MINAUR / PARIKSHIT SOMANI 26 36

Australian kids prove too strong for our kids as they manage to win only 12 games in three matches.

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