Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Tennis News

At $4.17M ATP World Tour Master 1000 Canada, Montreal

[R1] Andy Murray (GBR)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 63 61

[R2] Andy Murray (GBR)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (7) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ John Peers (AUS)
[R2] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs (PR) Novak Djokovic (SRB)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)

Solid winning start for Lee and Andy against Anderson and Chardy ... Next they r facing 7th seed Andy's brother Jamie and Peers ... Rohan and Florin r facing tricky Serbian pair of Djokovic and Tipsarevic.

At $100 Aptos Challenger, USA

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,142) l Gulherme Clezar (BRA,153) 26 61 36
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,145) l Elias Ymer (SWE,138) 26 26

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Carsten Ball (AUS) vs Karen Khachanov (RUS)/ Elias Ymer (SWE)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) vs (4) Julio Peralta (CHI)/ Matt Seeberger (USA)

Turn to be disappointing day in the singles for Indians ... Yuki fails to challenge talented Swede opponent Ymer and lose one-sided match ... Other hand after losing first set easily Buji fightback to win the second ... But Buji fails to keep momentum in the third for losing his match.

Somi and Yuki r also playing in the doubles but with different partners.


At $50K Tilia Slovenia Open, Portoroz

[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) bt (WC) David Gorsic (SLO)/ Tilen Zitnik (SLO) 62 62

Comfortably winning start for Purav and Fabrice against local wild-card pair.

At $15K USA F25 Futures, Champaign

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,234) vs (Q) Hunter Callahan (USA,1588)
[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,308) vs (Q) Konrad Zieba (USA,UNR)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Jared Hiltzik (USA)/ Aleksandar Vukic (AUS) 76(4) 61

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Aron Hiltzik (USA)/ Stephen Madonia (USA)

RamK and Sanam r top two seeds in this US futures ... Hopefully both will perform as per their rankings ... In the doubles also they r top-seed and start with straight sets win.

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