Tennis News

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.