Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Tennis News

At $2.5M Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada (WTA Premier 5)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bye

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Julia Goerges (GER)/ Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)

Sania and Martina r back on the court after their Wimbledon triumph and facing German-Polish pair after receiving bye in the first round.

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

[R2] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l (PR) Novak Djokovic (SRB)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 36 75 3-10

Match against Djokovic and Tipsarevic was tricky one and that proves ... Rohan-Florin lose their match in match tie-break ... After losing the first set they tried fightback but failed to challenge Serbian opponents in match tie-break.

At $100 Aptos Challenger, USA

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Carsten Ball (AUS) l Karen Khachanov (RUS)/ Elias Ymer (SWE) 76(3) 16 8-10
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) bt (4) Julio Peralta (CHI)/ Matt Seeberger (USA) 76(5) 76(3)

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) vs Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Zhang Ze (CHN)

Turn to be disappointing Aptos challenger for Buji as after his singles loss he lose the doubles with his Aussie partner Carsten Ball against talented youngsters Russian Karen Khachanov and Swedish Elias Ymer in match tie-break ... After winning the first set in tie-break Buji-Ball failed to keep momentum in the second ... In match tie-break Buji-Ball tried but Ymer-Khachanov proved better pair.

Yuki with Ebden score tight two sets victory over 4th seed pairing of Peralta and Seeberger ... Both sets went to tie-break but both time our pair took control for winning it ... In the quarters they r facing Chinese-Tunisian pair.


At $50K Tilia Slovenia Open, Portoroz

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) bt Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA)/ Hsin-Han Lee (TPE) 63 60

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) vs (PR) Thiemo de Bakker (NED)/ Stephan Fransen (NED)

Another dominating win by Purav and Fabrice against Arnaboldi and Lee ... In the semis they r facing Dutch pair.

At $15K USA F25 Futures, Champaign

[R1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,234) bt (Q) Hunter Callahan (USA,1588) 46 62 61
[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,308) bt (Q) Konrad Zieba (USA,UNR) 46 76(5) 62

[R2] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,308) vs Alex Rybakov (USA,849)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Aron Hiltzik (USA)/ Stephen Madonia (USA) 63 60

Our both players start their campaign slowly in the singles ... After losing the first set they make comeback in their matches against qualifiers ... RamK wins last two sets easily but Sanam needs to dig deep to win the second in tie-break before winning the final set comfortably ... Next Sanam is facing former top-15 junior and 18 yrs old American Alex Rybakov.

In the doubles RamK-Sanam r in the semis with dominating win.

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