Sunday, July 12, 2015

Tennis News

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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