Saturday, June 20, 2015

Tennis News

At €1.6M Halle Open, Germany (Grass)

[SF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Eric Butorac (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 76(10) 46 13-11

[F] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Raaven Klaasen (RSA)

What a fighting win for Rohan-Florin ... They won the first set in long 22 points tie-break before losing the second ... They win match tie-break after dog-fight, again 24 points long tie-break ... In the final they r facing Rajeev- Raven.

AAt $10K India F8 Futures, Hyderabad

[R1] Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Kumara P Saradhi ADAVELLY (IND) 62 64
[R2] Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt (5) Hugo GRENIER (FRA) 76(3) 64
[QF] Sumit NAGAL (IND) bt Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) 63
[SF] Sumit NAGAL (IND,1055) bt Alexandre MULLER (FRA,1289) 67(1) 61 76(3)

Singles Final
Sumit NAGAL (IND,1055) bt (8) Gustavo VELLBACH (ARG,801) 62 60

Doubles Final
(3) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (1) Juan Ignacio GALARZA (ARG)/ Alan KOHEN (ARG) 26 64 10-4

Sumit Nagal lifts his first futures title and his second title in two weeks from two continents ... Last week he won Grade 1 junior title on clay in Germany ... This week he defeated two Frenchmen and a Argentine in the final ... Sumit comfortably won the final losing only 2 games but in the semis he showed tremendous fighting spirit as in the final set he was 0-5 down and from here he took the set in tie-break for winning it ... So in last two Indian futures we are having two 18 yrs old winners.

Sood brothers win their second back to back futures title ... Here they score comeback win over top-seed Argentine pair.


At $10K India F7 Futures, Jassowal

[R1] (1) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (WC) Dalwinder SINGH (IND) 63 62
[R2] (1) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt Digvijay SINGH MEHTA (IND) 63 61
[QF] (1) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (8) Lakshit SOOD (IND) 61 61
[SF] (1) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (4) Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 36 62 75

Singles Final
(1) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (5) Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 64 63

Doubles Final
(2) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (1) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 61 64

18 yrs old Sasi took full advantage of weak field to lift his first futures title in Indian F7 futures ... With this he moves on WR #607 in ranking ... This year he is eligible for junior tournaments ... With his improved ATP ranking he is qualify for US open junior grand slam ... So hopefully he will take this opportunity to participate in that ... Hopefully someone give this message to Sasi and his team.

At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Anning, China (Clay)

[SF] (6) Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND,675) bt (7) Jia-Qi KANG (CHN,708) 61 76(6)

[F] (6) Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND,675) vs (5) Xiaodi YOU (CHN,637)

Sowjanya continues with her terrific run in China ... She beats 7th seed Chinese girl in straight sets and facing another Chinese girl Xiaodi You for the title.

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