Sunday, June 14, 2015

Tennis News

At €642K Mercedes Cup, Stuttgart, Germany (Grass)


Doubles Final
(4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt (3) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 57 63 10-7

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt (2) Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 63 67(6) 10-7

Rohan-Florin lift second title as pair in their third final on the tour after capturing the MercedesCup doubles title ... Other hand this is Rohan's fourth ATP tour title of the year and this is turning as most successful year on ATP tour.

After losing the first set Rohan-Florin made strong comeback ... Rohan-Florin took control early in the second set and afterwards never lost the control of the match ... So good start of grass season for Rohan-Florin.


At €1.6M Queen's Open, London, Great Britain

[Q1] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) bt (2) Pablo Andujar (ESP)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 75 63

[Q2] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) l (1) Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Andre Sa (BRA) 64 36 5-10

[R1] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB)

In Queen's open, Daniel-Lee r third seed and facing Agut-Troicki in the first round.

Mahesh played in the doubles qualifying with Colombian Cabal ... They started with upset win over 2nd seed Aisam-Pablo in straight sets... But in the final qualifying after winning the first set they failed to capitalize ... In match tie-break from 5-3 they lose next seven point to lose the match.


At €1.6M Halle Open, Germany (Grass)

[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Qualifier

In Halle, 2nd seed Rohan-Florin r facing qualifiers in the first round.

At $731K Aegon Classic, Birmingham, Great Britain (Grass) - WTA Premier

[R1] (1) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zheng (CHN)

This week Martina Hingis is not playing so Sania is partnering Australian Casey Dellacqua at Aegon Classic

At $50K Ilkley Challenger, Great Britain

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Daniel Cox (GBR,292) 76(0) 64

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) vs Alex Bolt (AUS,263) 36 1-2

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,157) vs (WC) Cameron Norrie (GBR,854)

This week only Yuki is in main-draw and facing lowly ranked British wild-card player.

Saki is skipping this tournament due to niggling injury but Somi is playing in qualifying ... He started with straights sets win over top-300 British player but struggling against top-275 Aussie player in the second qualifying.


At $50K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,420) vs (1) Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS,56)

Jeevan in facing top-60 Russian Gabashvili in the first round.

At $15K USA F16B Futures, Charlottesville

[QF] (4) Sanam SINGH (IND,360) l (8) Ernesto ESCOBEDO (USA,536) 36 46

And Sanam's inconsistent performance continues with his loss against young American opponent.

At $15K Thailand F4 Future, Bangkok

[R1] (4) Karunuday SINGH (IND,483) vs Jung-Woong NA (KOR,892)

Good to see KU is skipping easier Indian futures and playing more tougher Thai futures.

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