Saturday, May 30, 2015

Tennis News

At French Open 2015, Roland Garros, Paris

Doubles
[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Stephanie Foretz (FRA)/ Amandine Hesse (FRA) 63 64
[R2] (10) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Andre Begemann (GER)/ Julian Knowle (AUT) 76(3) 62
[R2] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Donald Young (USA) 36 63 75

[R3] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (14) Karin Knapp (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)
[R3] (10) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (6) Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA)
[R3] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs (5) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

All our pairs win their respective doubles matches ... Sania-Martina score comfortable straight sets win over French girls ... Next they r facing Italian pair in thew third round, in that playing former WR #1 doubles player Roberta Vinci.

Lee-Nestor also score straights sets win though in the first set they stretched to tie-break before comfortably winning second set ... Next they r facing Lee's nemesis 6th seed Italian pair of Bolelli-Fognini.

Rohan-Florin lose the first set before scoring comeback win over American pair ... Next they r facing 5th seed pair of Rojer-Tecau.


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

[QF] (4) Ankita RAINA (IND,235) bt (WC) Siqi CAO (CHN,UNR) 64 75

[SF] (4) Ankita RAINA (IND,235) vs (1) Luksika KUMKHUM (THA,141)

Good to see Ankita reaches semi-final in $50K event outside Indian ... Ankita needed to play well to beat 16 yrs old Chinese in tight two sets ... Next she is having tough challenge of top-seed and top-150 Thai girl Luksika KumKhum.

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