Tennis News

At $659K Atlanta Open, USA

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) l Treat Huey (PHI)/ Steve Johnson (USA) 16 36

treat-Steve beat Purav-Fabrice comfortably in the first round.

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At $50 Lexington Challenger, USA

[R1] (6) Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt (Q) Matija Pecotic (CRO,291) 76(5) 61
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) l Brydan Klein (GBR,170) 36 36

[R2] (6) Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) vs Brydan Klein (GBR,170)

Yuki dominates second set after winning first set in tie-break for entering into the second round ... In first set Yuki saved a set point at 5-6, 30-40 to hold ... Then in tie-break he was up 5-1 and then 6-3 ... Yuki converted 3rd set point for winning it ... In second set Yuki broke Matija in 2nd and 4th games to lead 5-0 ... After that he comfortably hold in 7th game for completing win ... Next he is facing British player Brydan Klein, who beats RamK comfortably in first round.

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At $659K Atlanta Open, USA

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) l (Q) Jared Donaldson (USA,166) 16 63 46

Buji lose against talented American 18 yrs old Jared Donaldson in three sets ... Buji nee to win these matches, in this match after losing first set easily Buji tried fightback ato win second set ... Buji failed to keep momentum in the final set and faces disappointing loss.

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At $50 Lexington Challenger, USA

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,194) l (7) Liam Broady (GBR,159) 26 16
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) vs (Q) Matija Pecotic (CRO,291) 4-4 stopped

I m disappointed by Saki's performance in this match ... Poor one-sided loss against Broady ... Yuki and Matija match is postponed to tomorrow due to rain interruption but before that Yuki gave up 4-0 lead ... Hopefully tomorrow Yuki show as per his ranking.

Archery News

At World Archery Championships - 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Recurve Women Team
[R1] (10) India bt (7) Germany 5-3 (49-56, 55-55, 51-50, 53-52)

[QF] (10) India bt (15) Colombia 6-2 (49-54, 57-48, 52-51, 50-47)

[SF] (10) India bt (6) Japan 5-4 (56-48, 54-55, 47-52, 56-53) 30-27

[F] (10) India vs (5) Russia

Recurve Men's Team
[R1] (15) India l (2) Italy 4-5 (55-52, 51-53, 57-56, 50-52) 26-29

Congratulations to Deepika Kumari, Rimil Buriuly & Laxmirani Majhi - our Indian women's recurve archery team as they qualify for Rio Olympics 2016 and with that we also qualify with 3 women archers for individual event ... Other hand our men lose close match against current Olympics champion Italy in shoot-off.

Indian women came from 1-3 down to beat Germany in topsy-turvy match as our archers struggled in this match ... Second match our archers dominated after losing first set for entering into the semis ... In the semis they face Japan, after winning first set comfortably our women lose close second set ... In third our archers hit wayward arrows but they recover to win fourth set ... In shoot-off our archers score perfect 30 to win the match ... In the final they r facing Russia, Russian girls upset mighty Korean girls in shoot-off ... Good opportunity for our girls for winning their first World Championships Gold medal.

Tennis News

At $659K Atlanta Open, USA

[Q3] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) bt Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,423) 63 63

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) vs (Q) Jared Donaldson (USA,166)

Buji qualify for main-draw with comfortable straight sets win over his Japanese opponent Shuichi Sekiguchi ... In main-draw he is facing another qualifier, American 18 yrs old Jared Donaldson, who is coached by Taylor Dent.

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At $125K Jiangxi Women's Tennis Open 2015, Nanchang, China

[R1] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,230) l Chang Liu (CHN,256) 26 67(9)

Ankita lose her match in straight sets ... After losing first set Ankita was down 1-4, she tried fightback and won 4 games in a row to lead 5-4 ... In tie-break also Ankita had chance to win this set but failed to do that ... She saved 4 match points before losing long tie-break.

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At $50 Lexington Challenger, USA

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Dimitar Kutrovsky (BUL) bt (1) Alex Bolt (AUS)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS) 75 57 10-6
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ John Millman (AUS) bt (WC) Jesse Witten (USA)/ Sam Barnett (USA) 60 60

Terrific winning start for Saki and his Bulgarian partner Dimitar Kutrovsky against top-seed Aussie pair in match tie-break ... Other hand expected solid win by RamK and Millman against scratch pair of businessmen.

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At €2.7M OMEGA European Masters, Switzerland

5 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 67 67 70 64 -12 € 114,480
T24 Shiv Kapur (IND) 68 71 69 67 -5 € 27,270
T24 SSP Chawrasia (IND) 70 66 70 69 -5 € 27,270
T37 Jyoti Randhawa (IND) 68 70 68 71 -3 € 18,090
T68 Rashid Khan (IND) 67 72 74 74 +7 € 5,805

Anirban score superb 6 under round to finish inside top-5 at European Masters ... He wins big prize money with this finish, more than Rs. 80 lacs in Indian currency ... Shiv Kapur scores 3 under to finish inside top-25 with SSP.

Tennis News

At $769K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota

[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) l (3) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 64 36 9-11

Another missed opportunity for Purav and Fabrice in Bogota semi-final ... After winning first set they lost second with early break ... In match tie-break they were mini-break up and had couple of match point at 9-7 ... Purav failed to win point on his serve and they lose four points in a row for losing this match.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger, Italy

Doubles Final
(2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (4) Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA) 46 76(3) 10-6

Divij lifts his first title of 2015 and 7th challenger title of his career at Recanati challenger ... He and Ken win the title beating in-form pairing of Bozo and Cipolla ... They took complete advantage of rain-break as after losing first Divij-Ken were down 2-4 in the second ... From there they made excellent comeback to win second set in tiebreak ... They kept momentum in match tie-break for winning it comfortably.

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At $659K Atlanta Open, USA

[Q1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) bye
[Q2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) bt Treat Huey (PHI,UNR) 75 63

[Q3] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) vs Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,423)

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Treat Huey (PHI)/ Steve Johnson (USA)

Buji is playing in the singles qualifying ... He had first round bye and then face his ex-UVa teammate and ex-doubles partner Treat Huey in the second round ... Buji score straight sets win over Treat and facing Japanese Shuichi Sekiguchi for place in main-draw.

Purav-Fabrice r playing in the doubles and facing Treat and Steve Johnson in the first round.

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At €494K Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland

[Q1] Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,381) l Gerald Melzer (AUS,181) 26 26

No luck for Vijay Sunder as Melzer proved too strong for him.

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At $50 Lexington Challenger, USA

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,194) vs (7) Liam Broady(GBR,159)
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) vs Qualifier
[R1] (7) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) vs Brydan Klein (GBR,173)

At Lexington challenger Yuki, Saki and RamK r playing ... Saki and RamK having toughh first round matches.

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At $125K Jiangxi Women's Tennis Open 2015, Nanchang, China

[R1] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,230) vs Chang Liu (CHN,256)

Doubles
[R1] Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS)/ Ankita Raina (IND) vs Na-Lae Han (KOR)/ Su Jeong Jang (KOR)

Ankita is playing in this $125K series and facing similar ranked Chinese opponent ... Hopefully she has winning start and in the doubles she is facing Korean pair with her Russian partner.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Hong Kong

[SF] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) bt (Q) Beatrice GUMULYA (INA,UNR) 63 62

[F] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) vs. (1) Ayaka OKUNO (JPN,326) 46 06

Prerna's terrific run ends in the final against top-seed and top-325 Japanese girl Ayaka Okund ... Though Okund scored one-sided win still creditable performance by Prerna ... This week she won six matches in a row before losing into the final.

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At $769K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) bt Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 64 64

[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs (3) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Michael Venus (NZL)

Purav-Fabrice score comfortable win over Ebden-Mannarino showing their first round win against top-seed wasn't a fluke ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed pairing of Pavic and Venus.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger, Italy

[SF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (WC) Matteo Berrettini (ITA)/ Edoardo Eremin (ITA) 62 64

[F] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs (4) Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA)

Divij-Ken score comfortable win over local wild-card pair and move into the final ... After longtime Divij is in the final at challenger level ... In the final they r facing in-form 4th seed pair of Bozo-Cipolla.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Hong Kong

[QF] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) bt Ji-Hee CHOI (KOR,480) 64 64

[SF] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) vs (Q) Beatrice GUMULYA (INA,UNR)

Prerna continues with her terrific run and score another straight sets upset win over top-500 Korean player ... Next she is facing Indonesian girl Gumulya, who was pro player but currently playing US college tennis ... So tough match for Prerna.

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At $15K China F11 Futures, Xi'an

Doubles Final
[F] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Zhe LI (CHN) l (3) Yan BAI (CHN)/ Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE) 76(4) 36 7-10

Close loss in match tie-break for Bala and Zhe Li after winning first set in tie-break against Taipei pair.

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At $769K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) bt (1) Rajeev Ram (USA) / Treat Huey (PHI) 16 63 10-5

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Adrian Mannarino (FRA)

Terrific upset comeback win by Purav-Fabrice against top-seed and in-form Rajeev and Treat ... After losing first set Purav-Fabrice fought back to win second ... And kept that momentum for winning match tie-break comfortably ... Next they r facing Aussie-French pair.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Hong Kong

[R1] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) bt Chiaki OKADAUE (JPN,536) 64 36 62
[R1] Rishika SUNKARA (IND,550) l Pei-Chi LEE (TPE,511) 63 46 67(5)

[R2] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) bt (7) Kyoka OKAMURA (JPN,392) 61 16 10-5

[QF] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) vs. Ji-Hee CHOI (KOR,480)

Prerna is in the quarters after back to back upset win over higher ranked opponents after qualifying for main-draw ... Rain disrupted schedule and that's why first time seeing match tie-break in the singles ... Prerna was lucky to win it in second round against top-400 Japanese player ... In the quarters she is facing Korean girl Ji-Hee Choi ... Other hand Rishika lost close match against similar ranked Taipei player.

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At $15K China F11 Futures, Xi'an

[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Zhe LI (CHN) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE)/ Wei-De LIN (TPE) 63 63
[QF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Zhe LI (CHN) bt Wishaya TRONGCHAROENCHAIKUL (THA)/ Zhicheng ZHU (CHN) w/o
[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Zhe LI (CHN) bt Hiroki KONDO (JPN)/ Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) 61 62

[F] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Zhe LI (CHN) vs (3) Yan BAI (CHN)/ Cheng-Peng HSIEH (TPE)

Bala is another doubles final with his Chinese partner Zhe Li ... They r having smooth ride till the final and in the final they r facing third seed Bai and Hsieh.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger, Italy

[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (WC) Salvatore Caruso (ITA)/ Stefano Napolitano (ITA) 76(4) 62

Divij-Ken score straight sets win over their Italian opponents and enter into the semis ... In first set both pairs failed to take a break but in tie-break Divij-Ken took control from beginning to win it ... After winning first set Divij-Ken dominated second set and won it with double break.

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At $50 Binghamton Challenger, Italy

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,198) l Mitchell Krueger (USA,338) 46 36

Saki was listless in his match ... May be due to jet lag from New Zealand but he need to win these matches to move ahead in ranking.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Zhengzhou, China

[R1] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,230) l Ling ZHANG (CHN,239) 64 36 67(8)

How Ankita lose her match is big puzzle ... She had ample chances to finish the match but she failed ... She was serving for the match in the third set at 5-4 and then 6-5 but both time failed to hold ... In tie-break also she had 3 match points but she failed to cross the line.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group - Playoff 2015, India

Again bad draw for us as we are facing top-seed Czech Republic for place in World group ... This is home tie for us but facing WR #6 Tomas Berdych, WR #44 Jiri Vesely and WR #54 Lukas Rosol in the singles is a tough challenge for our players.

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At $50K+H Recanati Challenger, Italy

[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt Mohammed Safwat (EGY)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 63 64

[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs (WC) Salvatore Caruso (ITA)/ Stefano Napolitano (ITA)

Divij-Ken start with comfortable straight sets win over Safwat-Weissborn ... Next they r facing local wild-card pair Caruso-Napolitano.

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At $9.2M 144th Open Championship, St. Andrews, Scotland

T30 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 69 70 71 72 -6 $63,075

Again Anirban struggle in last six holes and with that miss chance of finishing inside top-20 ... He started with bogey but scored birdies on 4th, 5th, 7th and 9th holes ... After 12 holes he was 3 under for the day and 9 under for the tournament ... But after that Anirban struggled on the green he scored four bogeys in next five holes, 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th holes ... He finished with a birdie to end his round on PAR ... Overall missed opportunity for Anirban as he had big chance of finishing inside top-10 if he manged to handle last six holes in last two rounds ... Still this is his best finish at Open as in 2012 he finished on T31st position.

Tennis News

At $50K+H Recanati Challenger, Italy

[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs Mohammed Safwat (EGY)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT)

This week Divij is playing another new partner, Ken Skupski ... Hopefully better result this week.

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At $15K China F11 Futures, Xi'an

[R1] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) l Yuya KIBI (JPN,627) 57 63 46

Surprising loss of Bala against his 600+ Japanese opponent Yuya Kibi.

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At 144th Open Championship, St. Andrews, Scotland

T26 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 69 70 71 -6

Anirban Lahiri struggle in last 5 holes and scored 3 bogeys to find himself outside top-25 ... After 11 holes he was 4 under for the day, 9 under and one stroke shy of the leaders ... But after that he struggled on the green and scored bogeys on 13th, 14th and 17th holes ... He need to recover in the final round and try to finish inside top-15.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - Group I Asia/ Oceania 2nd Round 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand

India bt New Zealand 3-2
Day One
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) l Michael Venus (NZL,548) 64 64 36 36 16
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt Jose Statham (NZL,345) 62 61 63

Day Two
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) 36 67(1) 36

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) bt Marcus Daniell (NZL,643) 64 64 64
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt Michael Venus (NZL,548) 62 62 63

Indians complete remarkable comeback to beat New Zealand for reaching World Group play-off ... On the third day things started favoring Indians as New Zealand needed to replace Jose Statham as he was down with flu ... Buji faced doubles specialist Marcus Daniell in fourth rubber ... Buji started with breaking Marcus in 1st game to lead 2-0 ... He kept that advantage for winning it ... In the second set Buji broke Marcus in crucial 9th game before holding his serve for winning this set ... In the third Buji broke Marcus in 5th game to lead 3-2 but Marcus immediately broke Buji in 6th game, 3-all ... From 3-4 down Buji won three games in row breaking Marcus again in 9th game ... Buji hold his serve for straight sets win but match was lot closer as it was going on for 2 hours and 20 minutes ... With this win India and New Zealand were tied 2-all.

For final rubber two in-form players for each country faces each other ... Yuki started in emphatic fashion as he broke Michael in 1st game to lead 2-0 ... He again broke Michael in 7th game for winning first set comfortably ... In the second set also Yuki started with a break and again took control for winning it convincingly ... In the third set Michael raised his game and troubled Yuki on his serve ... Till 3-all both players hold their respective service games ... Yuki broke Michael in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... In 8th game Yuki hold his serve after saving couple of break points to lead 5-3 ... In 9th game Michel was serving for staying in the tie but Yuki attacked his serve ... Michael tried hard to hold but failed to stop Yuki from converting third match point ... With this win Yuki helps India to give a chance of playing in World Group play-off match.

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At $769K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs (1) Rajeev Ram (USA) / Treat Huey (PHI)

Tough match awaits for Purav-Fabrice against top-see Rajeev-Treat at Bogota.

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At $50 Binghamton Challenger, Italy

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,198) vs Mitchell Krueger (USA,338)

This week Saki is playing at Binghamton Challenger ... Winnable first round match for him but only problem is recovery from jet lag after travelling from New Zealand.

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At Davis Cup - Group I Asia/ Oceania 2nd Round 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand

India vs New Zealand 1-2
Day One
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) l Michael Venus (NZL,548) 64 64 36 36 16
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt Jose Statham (NZL,345) 62 61 63

Day Two
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL) 36 67(1) 36

Surprisingly tame loss in the doubles for our players ... Rohan-Saketh pairing fail to challenge regular doubles pairing of Sitak and Daniell ... This loss put us on back-foot as now we r having uphill task of winning both singles on the final day ... Now key match for us between Somdev and Jose Statham.

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At $549K Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, USA (Grass)

[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) l Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 64 67(6) 6-10

Very tough loss for Purav-Fabrice after winning first set ... After winning first set Purav-Fabrice failed to win second in long tie-breaks ... Monroe-Pavic didn't give chance in match tie-break to Purav-Fabrice.

Golf News

At 144th Open Championship, St. Andrews, Scotland

T15 Anirban Lahiri (IND) 69 70 -5

Anirban Lahiri produce back to back steady rounds and currently he remains in top-20 and day's play suspended due to bad light so position can change after end of 2nd round ... I m really hoping he will continue with his terrific performance to finish inside top-15.

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - Group I Asia/ Oceania 2nd Round 2015, Christchurch, New Zealand

India vs New Zealand 1-1

Day One
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) l Michael Venus (NZL,548) 64 64 36 36 16
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt Jose Statham (NZL,345) 62 61 63

Day Two
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Marcus Daniell (NZL)

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) vs Jose Statham (NZL,345)
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) vs Michael Venus (NZL,548)

Yuki score dominating win over New Zealand #1 Jose Statham ... Importantly this win was huge after shocking loss of Somdev ... Yuki played solid tennis, he lost only six points on his serve in the match without facing a single break point ... With this win India equalize tie 1-all.

Before this Buji lost his match against 500+ Michael Venus ... How Buji lost this match is big puzzle ... He started well and win first 2 sets but after that he lost next three sets ... I really hope he comeback from this loss ... Now tomorrow's doubles match is really important for this tie.

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At $549K Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, USA (Grass)

[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Purav-Fabrice are facing another unseeded pair os Monroe and Pavic.

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At $75K+H San Benedetto Challenger, Italy

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) l (3) Flavio Cipolla (ITA)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) 57 26

Another loss for Divij but I m not blaming him for these loss ... He is still struggling to find regular partner as Safwat was his 14th partner of this year.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Tianjin, China

[R2] Natasha PALHA (IND,546) l (1) Qiang WANG (CHN,108) 26 16
[R2] (8) Ankita RAINA (IND,228) bt Jia-Qi KANG (CHN,620) 26 64 63

[QF] (8) Ankita RAINA (IND,228) l (3) Fangzhou LIU (CHN,142) 16 36

Ankita scored comeback win in the second round but fail to challenge top-140 Chinese opponent in the quarters.

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At $15K China F10 Futures, Xi'an

[QF] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) bt (4) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,400) 63 64

[SF] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) l (2) Ze ZHANG (CHN,228) 26 36

Bala scored comfortable win against his Japanese opponent in the quarters but lose one-sided match against Chinese #1 Zhang.

Bala and Zhe Li lift doubles title beating top-seed Ti Chen and Yan Bai.

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At $15K Germany F7 Futures, Kassel

[R2] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,382) l Duje KEKEZ (CRO,466) 46 63 36

Fighting performance in loss by Vijay Sundar against in-form Croatian Duje Kekez.

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At $200K Yonex Open Chinese Taipei 2015, Taipei (Grand Prix Gold)

[R2] Sameer VERMA (IND,141) l (1) Long CHEN (CHN,1) 19-21 16-21
[R2] (3) K. Srikanth (IND,3) l Ihsan Maulana MUSTOFA (INA,78) 19-21 18-21

[R2] P. V. Sindhu (IND,14) l (3) Tzu Ying TAI (TPE,5) 15-21 17-21

Poor loss of Srikanth against lower ranked Indonesian opponent Mustofa ... Srikanth's performance is really deteriorating after he entering into top-5 ... He need to re-find his game and form.

Sindhu also fail to challenge Tai in her straight games loss ... Sameer gives fighting performance against WR #1 Long Chen.

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At $549K Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, USA (Grass)

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) bt (WC) Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Frederik Neilsen (DEN) 76(5) 76(5)

Purav-Fabrice score superb win over good grass court players in entertaining match for entering into the semis ... Both sets went to tie-break but our pair managed to stop challenge of their opponents.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Tianjin, China

[QF] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Sabina SHARIPOVA (UZB) l Xinyu GAO (CHN)/ Di ZHAO (CHN) 46 61 6-10

Top-seed Ankita and Sabina lose against local pair in super tie-break.

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At $15K China F10 Futures, Xi'an

[R2] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) bt Bowen OUYANG (CHN,793) 67(6) 62 76(4)

[QF] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) vs (4) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,400)

Bala score tight comeback win over local player Ouyang ... In the quarters he is facing 4th seed Takeuchi.

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At $15K +HGermany F7 Futures, Klassen

[R1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth(IND,382) bt Karim-Mohamed MAAMOUN (EGY,534) 26 61 63

[R2] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,382) vs Duje KEKEZ (CRO,466)

Vijay also score comeback win over top-550 Egyptian opponent ... Next he is having tough match against in-form Croatian Duje Kekze.

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At $200K Yonex Open Chinese Taipei 2015, Taipei (Grand Prix Gold)

[R1] Sameer VERMA (IND,141) bt Kuo PO CHENG (TPE,151) 20-22 21-13 21-13
[R1] 3) K. Srikanth (IND,3) bt Tzu Wei WANG (TPE,47) 21-17 21-15
[R1] R. M. V. Gurusaidutt (IND,45) l Shesar Hiren RHUSTAVITO (INA,243) 21-23 17-21

[R1] P. V. Sindhu (IND,14) bt Lindaweni FANETRI (INA,30) 21-19 21-19

[R2] Sameer VERMA (IND,141) vs (1) CHEN Long (CHN,1)
[R2] (3) K. Srikanth (IND,3) vs Ihsan Maulana MUSTOFA (INA,78)

[R2] P. V. Sindhu (IND,14) vs (3) Tzu Ying TAI (TPE,5)

Shocking loss of Guru against lowly ranked Indonesian ... Other hand fighting comeback win by Sameer but next he is facing WR #1 Chinese Chen Long.

Sindhu score tight two games win and next she is having tough challenge of WR #5 local player Tzu Ying Tai.

Srikanth score comfortable win and next he is facing lowly ranked Indonesian.

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At $549K Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, USA (Grass)

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) bt Malek jaziri (TUN)/ Frank Moser (GER) 76(6) 75

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)/ Frederik Neilsen (DEN)

Superb winning start for Purav and Fabrice at Newport ATP ... Both sets were very closely fought but our pair prevailed ... In the quarters they r facing Swiss-Danish pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Tianjin, China

[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND,546) bt (WC) Qianqian ZHAO (CHN,970) 75 76(4)
[R1] (8) Ankita RAINA (IND,228) bt Keren SHLOMO (ISR,732) 60 63

[R2] Natasha PALHA (IND,546) vs (1) Qiang WANG (CHN,108)
[R2] (8) Ankita RAINA (IND,228) vs Jia-Qi KANG (CHN,620)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Sabina SHARIPOVA (UZB) bt Lingwei KONG (CHN)/ Yifei YANG (CHN) 60 61
[R1] Yoshimi KAWASAKI (JPN)/ Natasha PALHA (IND) l (4) Fang Ying XUN (CHN)/ Ying ZHANG (CHN) 26 36

[QF] (1) Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Sabina SHARIPOVA (UZB) vs Xinyu GAO (CHN)/ Di ZHAO (CHN)

Expected straight sets win for Ankita in the singles and doubles ... Next she is facing local girl for place in the quarters ... Other hand very tight straight sets win for Natasha against local 950+ ranked opponent ... Next she is having tough match against top-100 type Chinese girl Qiang Wang.

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At $15K China F10 Futures, Xi'an

[R1] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) bt (Q) Yu Hsiang CHIU (CHN,1465) 64 63

[R2] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,377) vs Bowen OUYANG (CHN,793)

Straight sets win against local qualifier for Bala ... Next she is facing another Chinese opponent Ouyang.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Mixed Doubles Final
(7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (5) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Timea Babos (HUN) 61 61

Junior Doubles Final
(8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt (4) Reilly Opelka (USA)/ Akira Santillan (JPN) 76(4) 64

Leander's master-class on the net and while returning help him to win his eighth mixed doubles title at Wimbledon ... Also Martina Hingis completes double crown and this is her third mixed doubles title ... Lee-Martina breezed through first set winning it in 19 minutes ... After 1-all they won five games in a row for winning the set ... In that they broke Peya and Babos comfortably ... In second set also Lee-Martina broke Peya and Babos in 2nd and 4th games to take 4-0 lead ... And then again broke Babos in 7th game for completing win in mere 40 minutes.

Sumit lifts junior boys doubles title with his Vietnamese partner Nam Hoang Ly beating junior singles winner American Reilly Opelka and his Japanese partner Akira Santillan in straight sets ... In the first set Sumit-Nam took first break in 11th game to lead 6-5 but Sumit failed to hold while serving for the set ... Sumit-Nam took control in tie-break winning it comfortably ... In the second set also both pairs hod their respective service games till 9th game ... In 10th game Sumit-Nam broke big server Reilly Opelka, who is 6 ft 10 inches tall, to win this match ... After 12 yrs any junior player win title for us at Wimbledon, Sania won junior girls title in 2003 and after that Sumit's this title triumph.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Women's Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 57 76(4) 75

Junior Doubles
[SF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt (5) Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)/ Casper Rudd (NOR) 76(5) 36 12-10

[F] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs (4) Reilly Opelka (USA)/ Akira Santillan (JPN)

Sania lifts her first Women's doubles grand slam title with Martina Hingis at Wimbledon ... From the beginning Sania-Martina were playing well but Russian girls also played smart tennis surprising opponents with I-Formation ... Russian girls took crucial break on Martina's serve in 11th game for winning first set ... High quality tennis continued in second set ... Our pair had couple of break points on Makarova's serve which they failed to convert ... This set went into tie-break, our pair took double mini-break on Vesnina's serve to lead 3-0 but Russian pair brought on serve taking double mini-break on Sania's serve 4-5 ... Next on Vesnina's serve again our pair took double mini-breaks, Martina hit amazing backhand down the line on 10th point and then on set point Sania hit breathtaking forehand down the line for winning this set ... Expecting another dog fight in the final set but Sania-Martina were looking tired ... Russian pair took advantage of that breaking Martina in 4th game to lead 4-1 ... Our pair had 3 break point chances on Vesnina's serve in 7th game, 0-40, but failed to convert this golden opportunity ... From 2-5 down our pair started amazing comeback in the match ... When Makarova serving for the match at 5-3 again our pair had 3 break points, 0-40, this time also Russian pair saved all three ... At deuce Sania hit very powerful service return winner in middle of the court and on next point Martina hit volley winner to bring set on the serve, 4-5 ... Next game also went to deuce before Sania holding her serve after hitting amazing running backhand cross-court winner ... At 5-all match stopped for 15 minutes for closing stadium roof ... After break our pair immediately broke Vesnina with superb returning to lead 6-5, first time in this set ... And then Martina served for Championship and hold it on luv ... Amazing victory winning five games in a row from 2-5 down in 2 hours and 31 minutes for Sania and Martina.

Sumit Nagal in the final of boys doubles with his Vietnamese partner Nam Hoang Ly ... They defeated 5th seed Miomir-Casper in well fought three sets ... In first set both pairs hold their respective service games to take this set in tie-break ... From 3-5 down Sumit-Nam won next 4 points for winning first set ... Our pair lost second set as both Nam and Sumit lose their service games ... In final set both pairs were serving well as no break points till 10-all ... Sumit-Nam broke opponents in 21st game and then Sumit served for the match ... Sumit-Nam converted 2nd match point for completing win in 2 hours 21 minutes ... In the final they r facing 4th seed American-Japanese pair.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

Singles Final
(7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Daniel Nguyen (USA,229) 75 46 76(5)

Somdev wins 2nd challenger title of the year after beating Daniel Nguyen very unconvincing style in more than 3 and half hours long match ... Buji struggled with his serve in this match so match wasn't easy for him ... In first set Buji broke Daniel in 7th game to lead 4-3 but he failed to hold while serving for the set at 5-4 ... Buji immediately broke Daniel in 11th game and then saved 2 break points before converting 4th set point ... In the second set Buji broke Daniel in 1st and 3rd games to lead 4-0 ... And then suddenly Buji's game dipped and he lost next six games to lose this set ... In the final set Buji was 1-3 early down but he broke Daniel in 5th game and again broke him in 9th game to lead 5-4 ... In 10th game Buji missed 3 championship points on his serve before got broken, 5-all ... Again Buji broke Daniel in 11th game to give him one more chance for serving for the match ... This time also he missed championship point at 40-30 before losing this game with double fault ... In tie-break also Buji took early with couple of mini-break, 5-1, but this time also Buji gave Daniel chance for equaling at 5-all ... And at last Buji converted 5th championship point for winning this title ... With this win Buji will again become India's #1 singles player as he will re-enter into top-150 world ranking.

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At $549K Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, USA (Grass)

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Malek jaziri (TUN)/ Frank Moser (GER)

Purav and Fabrice r playing in Newport tournament.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (5) Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA) 61 62

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (1) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 63 64

[F] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (5) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Timea Babos (HUN)

Junior Doubles
[QF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt Yusuke Takahashi (JPN)/ Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN) 62 63

[SF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs (5) Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)/ Casper Rudd (NOR)

Sania-Martina r in the final scoring dominating win over 5th seed American pair in 56 minutes ... Sania-Martina loses only three games in this one-sided match ... In the final they r facing WR #2 Russian pair of Makarova and Vesnina ... Interesting match between WR #1 and WR #2 pairs.

Lee-Martina score upset win over top-seed Mike Bryan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in straight sets ... In both sets our pairs proved too good for Bryan and Mattek-Sands ... In the final they r facing 5th seed Peya-Babos.

Sumit with his Vietnamese partner enter into the semis with convincing win over Japanese pair in straight sets ... In the semis they r facing 5th seed Serbian-Norwegian pair.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[SF] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt (5) Ryan Harrison (USA,129) 60 64

[F] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) vs Daniel Nguyen (USA,229)

Buji score dominating win over local favorite Ryan Harrison for place in the final ... In this match Buji didn't face a single break point ... Buji really played well and served well with six aces though Ryan struggled with his game ... Buji broke Ryan three times for winning first set ... In second set Ryan opened his account after winning 1st game ... Buji broke Ryan in 3rd game to lead 3-1 and after that hold his service games for winning this match in two sets ... Buji is favourite in the final as his opponent Daniel Nguyen is playing his first challenger level final.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[SF] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) l (4) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)) 64 26 36 64 11-13

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (3) Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 62 61
[QF] (2) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (5) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Timea Babos (HUN) 63 67(6) 7-9

[SF] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (1) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)

Junior Doubles
[R2] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt Jonathan Gray (GBR)/ Ewan Moore (GBR) 36 64 64

[QF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs Yusuke Takahashi (JPN)/ Jumpei Yamasaki (JPN)

Rohan-Florin play dog-fight match against 4th seed Rojer-Tecau but failed to convert in a win ... After winning first set our pair lost next two sets ... They fought back to win the fourth and then had long fifth set ... At last 4th seed Rojer-Tecau broke them in 24th game for memorable victory ... Our pair must be tired after their yesterday's long math against Bryans so they were unlucky as immediately next day they played this semi-final.

Lee-Martina score dominating performance against 3rd seed Matkowski and Vesnina losing only three games ... Next they r having tough match against top-seed Bryan and Mattek-Sands ... Other hand Sania-Bruno lose almost 2 and half hours match against Peya-Babos ... After winning first set Sania-Bruno lost closely fought next two sets.

Good comeback win by Sumit and his partner over tricky British pair after losing first set ... In the quarters they r facing Japanese pair.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[QF] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt (Q) Nicolas Meister (USA,472) 76(4) 46 62

Buji win in three sets after facing stiff challenge by Nicolas Meister ... In the first set Buji saved two sets points on his serve in 12th game before winning tie-break comfortably ... Nicolas won second set with a break ... In third set Buji made excellent comeback he broke Nicolas in 4th game to lead 3-1 and then again broke Nicolas in 8th game when he was serving for staying in the match, 2-5 ... This is Buji's best result on challenger tour after his title win at Delhi in February.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (9) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 75 63

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (5) Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA)

Junior Doubles
[R1] Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) l Maria Fernanda Herazo Gonzalez (COL)/ Deria Nur Haliza (INA) 36 26

Another straight sets win for Sania-Hingis for entering into the semis ... With Sania's excellent defensive game our pair took crucial break in 12th game for winning first set ... After winning first set our pair was in total control for winning next one and the match ... Next they r facing 5th seed American pair for place in the final.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[R2] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Matija Pecotic (CRO,299) 62 75

[QF] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) vs (Q) Nicolas Meister (USA,472)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l (WC) Graham Alrutz (USA)/ Dennis Novolo (USA) 36 46

Buji score straight sets win over Croatian Pecotic ... After winning first set easily Buji stopped fightback of Pecotic in the second ... In the quarters Buji is facing American qualifier Nicolas Meister, who beats top-seed Ito in the first round.

Poor loss for Buji and Sanam against local wild-card pair.

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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Bursa, Turkey (clay)

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,228) l (3) Barbora KREJCIKOVA (CZE,141) 36 26

Ankita need to win these type of matches to move ahead in her career.

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At $15K Great Britain F6 Futures, Frinton (Grass)

[R1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth(IND,398) l Neil PAUFFLEY (GBR,823) 46 16

Vijay Sundar fail to challenge British player on the grass.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[QF] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 57 64 76(9) 76(5)

[SF] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs (4) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

Mixed Doubles
[R3] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 62 62
[R3] (2) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Ana Konjuh (CRO) 63 67(5) 63

Junior Singles
[R2] (15) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,17) l Michaela Gordon (USA,24) 26 36

Junior Doubles
[R1] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt Alex De Minaur (AUS)/ Yosuke Watanuki (JPN) 64 75

[R2] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs Jonathan Gray (GBR)/ Ewan Moore (GBR)

Florin's game from the baseline and Rohan's deft touches at the net helped our pair defeat the top seeds Bryans to reach the semi finals ... Rohan-Florin were looking in terrific form from the start but despite that our pair lose first set ... From second set our pair raised their game and win it with a break ... In last two sets both pairs were deserving to win it but Rohan-Florin played well to win important points ... They won third set in extra points of tie-break and fourth set also on tie-break for winning this match ... In the semis they r facing 4th seed Rojer and Tecau.

Lee-Martina score dominating win for entering into the quarters of MXD ... Sania-Bruno win tight match over Croatians for reaching into the quarters.

Pranjala lose easily against her American opponent Gordon ... In the doubles Sumit and his Vietnamese partner start with straight sets win but next they r facing tricky match against local pair.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[R1] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Frances Tiafoe (USA,291) 63 61
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,205) l Frank Dancevic (CAN,216) 36 26

[R2] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) vs Matija Pecotic (CRO,299)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) vs Erik Krepaldi (ITA)/ Henrique Cunha (BRA) 61 67(3) 8-10

Really good win by Buji over in-form and talented young American Frances Tiafoe ... Buji scored dominating win losing only four games .... Next he is facing Croatian Matija Pecotic.

Other hand Saki fail to raise his game against experienced Dancevic and lose one-sided match ... Saki also lose hsi doubles match with Reid ... After winning first set comfortably they lost close next two sets.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[R3] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 76(4) 67(5) 76(5) 76(8)
[R3] (11) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (8) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 36 57 63 62 26
[R3] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (16) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) 64 63

[QF] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (9) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)

Junior Singles
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,27/ATP764) l Juan Pablo Ficovich (ARG,241/ATP691) 75 26 46

Rohan-Florin win close match against Kubot-Mirnyi in four sets ... All four sets went to tie-break and match went fpr 3 hours and 19 minutes ... After winning first set our pair lost the second set ... They won third set and in the fourth both pairs had chance but our pair completed win in extra points ... Next they r facing WR #1 Bryans.

Sania-Martina score another comfortable win in hour against Spanish pair ... Next they r facing Dellacqua-Shvedova.

But Lee-Daniel lose their match in five sets ... Our pair lost first 2 sets before tried fightback ... They fought back to win third and fourth sets comfortably ... Peya-Soares played attacking tennis in the fifth and Lee-Daniel couldn't challenge their onslaught.

Sumit lose in the first round against Argentine player ... His lack of practice on the grass backfired in this match where he won first set.

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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[R1] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) vs Frances Tiafoe (USA,291)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,205) vs Frank Dancevic (CAN,216)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (WC) Graham Alrutz (USA)/ Dennis Novolo (USA)
[R1] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) vs Erik Krepaldi (ITA)/ Henrique Cunha (BRA)

Buji is playing against talented young American player and Saki is facing experienced Dancevic ... Tough matches for our players.

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At Men's Hockey World League - Semi Finals 2015, Antwerp, Belgium

For Bronze medal
India l Great Britain 1-5 (0-2)
Goal Scorers - Rupinder Pal Singh (IND) 60' PC and Alastair Brogdon (ENG) 11' PC, Chris Griffiths (GBR) 28', Ashley Jackson (ENG) 37', Adam Dixon (ENG) 42' PC, Barry Middleton (ENG) 44'

Great Britain powered to a convincing 5-1 win over India to claim third place at the FINTRO Hockey World League Semi-Finals ... Again Indians failed in all departments ... They were poor in defending as gave too much space to opponents ... And again our forward line were non-existent ... We still need lot of improvement in our game but importantly we require to remove deadwood from the team ... Still 4-5 players r replaceable in the team if we really regularly want to challenge top teams.

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At $15K USA F21 Futures, Wichita

Singles Final
(5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) bt Mitchell Krueger (USA,338) 76(4) 76(4)


Doubles Final
(1) Darian KING (BAR)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (4) Gonzales AUSTIN (USA)/ Max Jacob SCHNUR (USA) 63 63

[SF] (1) Darian KING (BAR)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (3) Jarryd CHAPLIN (AUS)/ Andre DOME (USA) 62 76(1)
[QF] (1) Darian KING (BAR)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Nick CHAPPELL (USA)/ Will E. STEIN (USA) 75 63
[R1] (1) Darian KING (BAR)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Zeke CLARK (USA)/ William GENESEN (USA) 62 60

Sanam wins double crown in US futures ... This is Sanam's 8th futures singles title and the first since 2013 when he won the USA F7 futures title ... In the singles final he defeats American Mitchell Krueger in well contested match ... In the first set Sanam was twice break down, one time Mitchell was serving for the set 5-4, and both time Sanam broke back ... In tie-break both players winning points on their serve before Sanam took mini-break for winning the set ... In the second set Sanam broke Mitchell in 1st game but while serving for the match at 5-4 he failed to hold ... But Sanam kept his concentration and won tie-break for completing the win.

Sanam also lifts doubles title with Darian King ... They won all matches in straight sets.

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At Women's Hockey World League - Semi Finals 2015, Antwerp, Belgium

For 5th position
India bt Japan 1-0 (1-0)
Goal Scorers - Rani Rampal (IND) 13'

Indian eve completes important victory over higher ranked Japan for qualify for the Olympics for the first time in our history ... Still it is not official but after continental championships we will definitely going to qualify.

In this match Japan had more possession and dominated ... They earned more penalty corners and more circle penetrations but their penalty corner set up and forwards were poor in front of the goal ... Other hand Indian eve defended well as team ... Savita was excellent in front of goal and Rani scored excellent goal after receiving pss from Vandana in first quarter ... After that our plan was defending and though we successfully managed that but against better team this can back fire.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[R2] (11) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) 57 76(3) 76(4) 75

[R3] (11) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (8) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)
[R3] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (16) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)/ Alize Cornet (FRA) 64 62
[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) l (6) Horia Tecau (ROU)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 26 46
[R2] (2) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Andre Begemann (GER)/ Janette Husarova (SVK) 62 64

[R3] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)
[R3] (2) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Ana Konjuh (CRO)

Junior Singles
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,27/ATP764) vs Juan Pablo Ficovich (ARG,241/ATP691)
[R1] (15) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,17) bt Maria Fernanda Herazo Gonzalez (COL,72/WTA1089) 64 62

[R2] (15) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,17) vs Michaela Gordon (USA,24)

Junior Doubles
[R1] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs Alex De Minaur (AUS)/ Yosuke Watanuki (JPN)
[R1] Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) vs Maria Fernanda Herazo Gonzalez (COL)/ Deria Nur Haliza (INA)

Lee-Daniel need to dig deep for their comeback win over Lu-Gabashvili ... After losing first set Lee-Daniel won next two sets in tie-breaks ... In fourth set also they stopped challenge of Gabashvili-Lu for winning this match in 3 hours 14 minutes ... Next they r facing 8th seed Peya and Soares.

In MXD, Sania-Bruno start with straight sets win over their opponents ... Lee-Martina also complete comfortable win over French pair ... But Rohan-Maria fail to challenge 6th seed pair.

Prajala is 15th seed and she wins her first round match comfortably ... Next she is facing top-25 American Michaela Gordon.

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At $15K USA F21 Futures, Wichita

[SF] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) bt Noah Rubin (USA,1029) 62 75

[F] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) vs Mitchell Krueger (USA,338)

Sanam score superb win over last year's junior Wimbledon champion Noah Rubin ... Last week Sanam lost in straight sets against same opponent but this week he turn table on him for straight sets win ... Sanam will face 4th seed American Krueger for the title.

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At Men's Hockey World League - Semi Finals 2015, Antwerp, Belgium

Semi Final
India l Belgium 0-4 (0-2)
Goal Scorers - Florent van Aubel (BEL) 2', 41' PC and 53' PC, Tanguy Cosyns (BEL) 8'

In shocking display our men lose against Belgian team ... Despite dominating first two quarters we were 0-2 down due to poor defending and forgettable forward line ... Indians failed to penetrate Belgian circle and Rupinder wasn't in his self in this match ... Missed two penalty corners and simple trapping ... Overall disappointing performance ... Another sad news in Pakistan lose against Ireland in 5th to 8th match and with that chance of qualifying for Rio Olympics.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[R2] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Guillermo Duran (ARG) 75 76(5) 76(5)
[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 60 61

[R3] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (PR) Mahesh Bhupath (IND)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) l Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Madison Brengle (USA) 75 36 26
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) bt Eric Butorac (USA)/ Katalin Marosi (HUN) 76(9) 57 75

[R2] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)/ Alize Cornet (FRA)
[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) vs (6) Horia Tecau (ROU)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)
[R2] (2) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Andre Begemann (GER)/ Janette Husarova (SVK)

Rohan-Florin score straight sets win over their South American opponents but all three sets went to distance ... In end very close win for our pair as two sets went to tie-breaks ... Next they r facing Mirnyi and Kubot.

This is a really dominating win in 44 minutes for Sania-Martina against experienced Schiavone-Kimiko Date-Krumm ... In this match our pair lose only a single game before winning it.

In MXD Rohan-Maria start with hard fought win in 2 hours 16 minutes long match against Eric and Katalin ... After winning long tie-break Rohan and his partner lose the second ... In the third set also they exchanged couple of breaks but from 4-5 Rohan-Maria won next three games for exciting victory.

Other hand Mahesh performance is disappointing and he lost his MXD match after winning first set ... In this match also his partner Kudryavtseva carried him in first set but after that they failed to challenge their American opponents.

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At $15K USA F21 Futures, Wichita

[QF] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) bt (3) Tennys Sandgren (USA,283) 67(5) 62 63

[SF] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) vs Noah Rubin (USA,1029)

Sanam score excellent comeback win against in-form top-300 Tennys Sandgren for entering the semis ... After losing first set in tie-break Sanam made strong comeback in the match ... He won next two sets comfortably ... Next he is facing Noah Rubin, who defeated him first round in last week's future.

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At Women's Hockey World League - Semi Finals 2015, Antwerp, Belgium

5th-8th Positions
India bt Italy 1-1 (0-1) Penalty Shoot-out 5-4
Goal Scorers - Rani Rampal (IND) 33' and Elisabetta Pacella (ITA) 9'

Indians eve complete win in sudden death against spirited Italian ... Italian took early lead but after that we dominated the match ... Our circle penetrations and shots on goal were more than Italian but our forward disappointed ... Rani equalized in third qurter but we should had scored 2-3 more goals in that quarter alone ... After 1-all match went into penalty shoot-out ... After penalty shoot-out scored remained 4-all but in sudden death Rani Pampal converted her penalty and after that our veteran goal-keeper Savita made clean tackle on Giuliana Ruggieri's attempt to help our side for winning this match ... Now earning direct ticket for Rio we are facing Japan.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Mahesh Bhupath (IND)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) l Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 36 36 26

Mahesh's makeshift partnership with Janko doesn't stand against Lindstedt-Melzer ... They lost match without much fight.

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At $15K Netherlands F3 Futures, Zeeland

[QF] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,393) l (4) Jesse HUTA GALUNG (NED,259) 46 76(3) 16

Vijay Sundar gives fighting performance in his loss against former top-100 Galung ... After losing the first set he was break down and saved couple of match points on his serve before taking this set in tie-break ... But after winning tie-break he failed to continue with his game and falling behind 0-4 ... Vijay Sundar failed to comeback and lose this match.

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At $15K USA F21 Futures, Wichita

[R2] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) bt Nick CHAPPELL (USA,1599) 67(5) 63 64

[QF] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) vs (3) Tennys Sandgren (USA,283)

Sanam needs comeback for a win over Nick Chappell ... After losing the first set tie-break Sanam needed to dig deep for winning next two ... In the quarters he is facing 3rd seed Tennys Sandgren.

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At Men's Hockey World League - Semi Finals 2015, Antwerp, Belgium

Quarter Final
India bt Malaysia 3-2 (1-2)
Goal Scorers - Satbir Singh (IND) 3' PC, Jasjit Singh Kular (IND) 49' PC and 56' PC and Muhammed Razie ABD Rahim (MAS) 15' PC, Shahril Saabah (MAS) 23' PC

Indians pip Malaysia in closely fought match ... Indians forward struggle in-front of the goal despite more shots on goal ... After taking early lead Indians struggled and Malaysian fought back ... They converted 2 peanlty corners in 10 minutes to lead at half-time ... Indians imposed pressure in fourth quarter and Jasjit converted two excellent penalty corner conversion to help India completing victory ... In the semis they will mostly face host Belgium.

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At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)

Doubles
[R1] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Tim Smyczek (USA)/ Jiri Vesely (CZE) 63 76(1) 61
[R1] (11) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Dusan Lajovic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) 63 64 75
[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) l (WC) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) 16 46 64 67(7)
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Zarina Diyas (KAZ)/ Saisai Zheng (CHN) 62 62

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (PR) Mahesh Bhupath (IND)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) vs Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Madison Brengle (USA)
[R1] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bye
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Katalin Marosi (HUN)
[R1] (2) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bye

Our both seeded pairs start with straight sets win over their respective opponents ... Purav and Fabrice lose to 2012 champion pair in closely fought match ... In the fourth set they saved a match point before missing their own set point at 7-6.

Sania-Martina start their Wimbledon campaign with comfortable win against tricky pairing of Diyas-Zgeng .. In this match our pair lost only four games.

Mixed draw is out ... Sania and Lee r having first round bye as seeded pairs with their respective partners ... Mahesh is partnering Russian Kudryavtseva and Rohan is partnering Spanish Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.

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At $15K Netherlands F3 Futures, Zeeland

[R1] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,393) bt (Q) Mitchell STEWART (USA,UNR) 60 64
[R2] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,393) bt Miliaan NIESTEN (NED,655) 36 64 63

[QF] (8) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,393) vs (4) Jesse HUTA GALUNG (NED,259)

Good comeback win by Vijay Sundar against local Dutch player ... Now real tough test against former top-100 Jesse Huta Galung in the quarter, in 2014 Jesse was #91 in the singles and #63 in the doubles.

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At $15K USA F21 Futures, Wichita

[R1] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) bt (Q) Felix Corwin (USA,UNR) 63 62

[R2] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,359) vs Nick CHAPPELL (USA,1599)

Hoping for better performance from last week ... Expected comfortable winning start for Sanam.

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At Women's Hockey World League - Semi Finals 2015, Antwerp, Belgium

Quarter Final
India l Netherlands 0-7 (0-5)
Goal Scorers - Naomi van AS (NED) 1', Lidewij Welten (NED) 9' PC and 48', Caia van Maasakker (NED) 16' PC, 26' PC and 53' PC, Ginella Zerbo (NED) 18'

WR #1 Dutch side prove too strong for Indian eve ... In one-sided match they defeated us without giving much chance though our girls tried hard ... Now in 5th-8th positioning match we r facing Italy, who defeated us in practice match so hopefully this time we will manage to turn table on them.