Friday, August 21, 2015

Tennis News

At $2.7M Western and Southern Open, Cincinnati, USA (WTA Premier 5)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (WC) Christina Mchale (USA)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) 64 61

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)

Expected comfortable win for Sania and Martina against American wild-card pair ... In the semis they r facing Taipei pair.

At $4.45M Western and Southern Open - Master 1000, Cincinnati, USA

[QF] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 16 61 12-14
[QF] Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 63 26 12-14

Our both pairs lose closely fought match tie-break in extra points ... Lee-Stan started well winning the first set but failed to keep momentum in the second ... Stan-Lee tried hard after down 5-9 in match tie-break but lost 26 points long match tie-break, in that they also had couple of match points.

Rohan-Fabrice lost the first set easily but fought back to win the second set dominantly ... But they also lost 26 points long match tie-break against 2nd seeds.


At $100 Vancouver Challenger, Canada

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,149) bt Farrukh Dustov (UZB,161) 64 64

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,149) vs Dudi Sela (ISR,130)

Doubles
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) bt (2) Ausitn Krajicek (USA)/ Nicolas Monroe (USA) 63 62

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) bt (4) Marius Copil (ROU)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) w/o (Melzer shoulder injury)

Straight sets win for Yuki against Uzbek Farrukh Dustov ... In this match Farrukh failed to stretch Yuki ... In the semis Yuki is facing former top-30 and veteran Israeli Dudi Sela.

In the doubles Yuki-Venus show how potent pairing they are with comfortable win against 2nd seed American pair .. In the semis also they receive walkover by 4th seed Melzer-Copil due to shoulder injury to Melzer.


At $50K+H Cordenons Challenger, Italy

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) bt James Cerreani (USA)/ Costin Paval (ROU) 63 62

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) vs (3) Dino Marcan (CRO)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO)

Comfortable win for Purav and Fabrice against Cerreani and Paval pairing ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed Croatian pair.

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