Tennis News

At $2.2M Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy (WTA Premier Mandatory)

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) l (3) Timea Babos (HUN) / Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 46 36

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (4) Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 62 76(5)
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Julia Goerges (GER) / Sa­lvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 64 63
[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU) 64 61
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bye

Sania-Martina lose in the final against third seed Babos-Mladenovic ... Though they lost in straight sets but it was well fought match ... So Sania-Martina r in good preparation for French open ... Before this Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza reclaimed the No.1 spot on the Road To Singapore doubles leaderboard from Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova after reaching their fourth final in six tournaments together.

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At €3.29M Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome, Italy

[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea(ROU) l (3) Jean-Julien Rojer (FRA)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 26 75 8-10
[R2] (6) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ David Marrero (ESP) 26 46

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea(ROU) bt Leonardo Mayer(ARG)/ Juan Monaco (ARG) 63 64
[R1] (6) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bye

Rohan-Florin lose in closely fought match against third seed but other hand Lee and Nestor's partnership is not giving any result ... They r having 1-5 win-loss record ... From this week at Geneva open Raven is making comeback, hopefully Lee and Raven will start replaying together.

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At At €494K Geneva Open 2015, Switzerland

[Q3] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) l (1) Adrian Mannarino (FRA,29) 57 16

[Q2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Lorenzo Giustino (ITA,448) 61 64

[Q1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Oliver Marach (AUT,1182) 75 76(5)
[Q1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,401) l Gleb Alekseenko (UKR,836) 36 63 26

Buji and Vijay Sundar play in Geneva open qualifying ... Vijay Sundar lost in the first round but Buji make good use of practice on clay as he won first 2 qualifying matches before losing to top-30 Frenchman after giving fighting performance in the first set.

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At €439K Open de Nice Côte d’Azur 2015, Nice, France

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Martin Emmrich (GER)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

This week Purav and Fabrice r playing at Geneva open and facing German-Swedish pair ... Interestingly Daniel Nestor is also playing there with Peya.

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At $100K+H Bordeaux Challenger, France

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,169) l (7) Norbert Gombos (SVK,109) 36 64 46

Last week Buji failed to start with win against top-110 player on clay.

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

[F] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,180) l (1) Teymuraz Gabashvilli (RUS,82) 36 16

[SF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,180) bt Saketh Myneni (IND,229) 64 75

[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,229) bt (8) Bryden Klein (GBR,205) 64 16 61
[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,180) bt (3) Adrian Menendex-Maceiras (ESP,120) 64 64

[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,229) bt (Q) Luke Bambridge (GBR,732) 63 62
[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,180) bt Laslo Djere (SRB,209) 16 75 76(1)

[R1] (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,952) l (WC) Djurabeck Karimov (UZB,1113) 64 46 67(6)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,229) bt Vladimir Ivanov (EST,450) 63 67(8) 63
[R1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,180) bt (Q) Ivan Gakhov (RUS,535) 64 63

Doubles
[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l Laslo Duere (SRB)/ Pedja Krstin (SRB) 46 67(4)

[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Vladimir Ivanov (EST)/ Dzmitry Zhyrmont (BLR) 63 36 10-8

Turn to be terrific week for Indians on clay ... Yuki and Saki were playing their first clay court challenger but they performed above expectations .. Saki took full advantage of weak draw to reach the semi-final ... Other hand Yuki played some excellent tennis ... Needed to dig deep to reached final ... In the final Gabashvilli prove too good but overall Yuki must be happy with his performance.

With this performance Yuki will be India's #1 player with his ranking in 160s and Saki will be join Yuki and Buji after entering into top-200.

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At $50K Eskisehir Challenger, Turkey

[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,955) l (8) Filip Veger (CRO,560) 26 26

[R1] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND,229) vs Nikola Mektic (CRO,354)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs (WC) Altug Celikbilek (TUR)/ Sefa Suluoglu (TUR)

This week Divij fails to provide any upset ... In the singles Saki is 4th seed and facing Croatian opponent ... In the doubles with Divij he is facing local wild-card pair.

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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Wuhan, China (Clay)

[R1] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND,235) vs Alison BAI (AUS,371)
[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND,557) vs Qiu Yu YE (CHN,540)
[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND, 620) vs Yuxuan ZHANG (CHN,362)

Doubles
[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND)/ Ran TIAN (CHN) vs Lauren EMBREE (USA)/ Alexa GUARACHI (USA)
[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Jasmin JEBAWY (GER) vs (3) Zhaoxuan YANG (CHN)/ Qiu Yu YE (CHN)
[R1] Aleksandrina NAYDENOVA (BUL)/ Ankita RAINA (IND) vs (4) Danielle LAO (USA)/ Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN (THA)

Only Ankita is having winnable match ... Otherwise tough matches for our players.