Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Tennis News

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.


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.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bopanna n mergea score a upset win over the Byran brothers

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