Friday, August 14, 2015

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group Play-off 2015, New Delhi, India

Indian Team
Yuki Bhambri, Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna and Leander Paes
Non-playing Captain - Anand Amritraj
Reserved Players - Saketh Myneni, Ramkumar Ramanathan
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

Indian team is announced for Czech Republic tie and this time we are giving important to experienced players ... Lee is making comeback in the team and that pushes our average age to whooping 32.5 yrs. :-)

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

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Chan Hao-ching (TPE)/ Chan Yung-jan (TPE) 64 62

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

Sania-Martina r in the semis with straight sets win over Taipei pair ... Next they r facing 4th seed Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik.

At $50K Tilia Slovenia Open, Portoroz


Doubles Final
(2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) bt (1) Aliaksandr Bury (BLR)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) 76(5) 46 18-16

Purav-Fabrice pass real test in really exciting match against top-seed Bury and Siljestrom ... Interestingly first challenger title as pair for Purav and Fabrice and overall sixth challenger title for Purav.

Purav-Fabrice won the first set in tie-break but after that Bury and Siljestrom fought back to win the second set ... In match tie-break both pairs didn't give other pair cakewalk so it was well earned victory for Purav and Fabrice as they completed win after winning 34 points long match tie-break.


At $100 Aptos Challenger, USA

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Zhe Zhang (CHN) 75 62

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) vs (2) Ausitn Krajicek (USA)/ Nicolas Monroe (USA)

Yuki in the doubles semis with his Aussie partner Matthew with straight sets win over Jaziri-Zhang ... Next they r facing 2nd seeds Krajicek-Monroe.

At $15K USA F25 Futures, Champaign

[QF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,234) bt Daniel Garza (MEX,545) 63 64

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,234) vs (4) Kevin King (USA,389)

This time straight sets win for RamK ... Next he is facing in-form Kevin King.

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