Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Tennis News

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.


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.

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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