Tennis News

At €1.6M Halle Open, Germany (Grass)

[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt (Q) Lukas Rosol (CZE)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 26 63 10-8

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Henri Kntinen (FIN)

Good comeback win by Rohan-Florin against qualifiers ... Next they r facing Croatian-Finnish pair.

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At $50K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,420) l (1) Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS,56) 26 46

Doubles
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) bt (WC) Rizo Saidokojaeve (UZB)/ Diyou Uldashev (UZB) 60 60

Expected loss in the singles but still decent performance by Jeevan ... In the doubles he and Ti Chen win without losing much sweat.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Fergana, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Sharrmadaa BALUU (IND,619) vs (Q) Tamara CUROVIC (SRB,612)
[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND,643) vs (8) Anna MORGINA (RUS,358)
[R1] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,732) bt (Q) Alexandra RILEY (USA,787) 60 63

Good to see Nidhi and Sharrmadaa qualify for main-draw ... Good easy win by Nidhi against similar ranked American qualifier.