Sunday, May 17, 2015

Tennis News

At €4.2M Mutua Madrid Open, Spain


Doubles Final
Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea(ROU) bt (5) Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 62 67(5) 11-9

New pairing of Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea stopped spirited fightback from Marcin Matkowski and Nenad Zimonjic to capture their first ATP World Tour team title in Madrid ... Rohan-Florin saved a match point in match tie-break before winning this title ... After winning the first set Rohan-Florin were leading 4-1 in the second set tie-break but Zimo-Marcin won six points from next seven for winning this set ... In match tie-break also Rohan-Florin took early lead of 6-0 but again Zimo-Marcin caught them at 7-all ... Our pair saved a match point at 8-9 before converting on their first match point at 10-9 ... This is Rohan's 12th ATP tour title and third ATP Masters title.

At $50K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan (clay)

[Q2] Divij Sharan (IND,952) bt (8) Denis Yevseyev (KAZ,803) 62 75

[Q3] Divij Sharan (IND,952) bt (1) Denis Matsukevich (RUS,454) 61 36 62

[R1] (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,952) vs (WC) Djurabeck Karimov (UZB,1113)
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,186) vs (Q) Ivan Gakhov (RUS,535)

Once again Divij qualify for main-draw ... This time he beats top-500 Russian player for qualification ... He is facing tricky first round against local wild-card player ... Other hand Yuki is facing Russian qualifier in the first round.

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