Thursday, July 23, 2015

Tennis News

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.

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.

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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