Thursday, June 18, 2015

Tennis News

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

[R1] (1) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) 46 26

Fail to click this one-off pairing with Aussie girl Dellacqua.

At €1.6M Halle Open, Germany (Grass)

[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Henri Kntinen (FIN) 76(4) 76(3)

[SF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)

Rohan-Florin need two tie-breaks for winning their match against Croatian-Finnish pair ... In the semis they r facing American pair of Butorac and Lipsky.

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

[QF] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Marc Lopez (ESP)/ Rafael Nadal (ESP) 76(3) 64

[SF] (3) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (2) Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Really good win by Lee-Daniel against Rafa and Lopez in straight sets ... Our pair needed tie-break for winning the first set but they won the second set more comfortably ... Next they r facing 2nd seed Matkowski and Zimo.

At $50K Ilkley Challenger, Great Britain

[R2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,157) l (WC) Joshua Milton (GBR,302) 67(5) 64 36

Yuki loses close match against Joshua in three sets ... After losing first set in close tie-break Yuki made excellent fight back from 3-4 to win this set winning next 3 games ... But in the final set Yuki got broken in 1st game and failed to comeback ... Joshua won the match breaking him again in 9th game ... Frankly speaking our Indian players require big slice of luck in Wimbledon qualifying draw for qualify.

At $50K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) l Nikola Milojevic (SRB)/ Marco Tepavac (SRB) 26 46

Jeevan-Ti fail to put fight against Serbian team.

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

[R2] (Q) Sharrmadaa BALUU (IND,619) l (1) Hiroko KUWATA (JPN,175) 67(5) 26
[R2] Natasha PALHA (IND,643) bt Ksenia LYKINA (RUS,416) 26 64 76(3)
[R2] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND,732) l (6) Veronika KUDERMETOVA (RUS,294) 36 57

[QF] Natasha PALHA (IND,643) vs (1) Hiroko KUWATA (JPN,175)

Natasha scores another upset win over former top-200 Russian player Lykina ... After losing the first set Natasha put hell of a fight ... He won the second set with a break and then dug deep to win the final set in tie-break ... Next she is facing top-seed Japanese girl Kuwata, who beats another Indian girl Sharrmadaa in the second round.

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