Saturday, August 22, 2015

Tennis News

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

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) l Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) 46 60 6-10

Surprising loss against unseeded Taiwani pair for Sania and Martina ... After losing the first set Sania-Martina made strong comeback to win the second set without losing a single game ... But they failed to keep momentum in the match tie-break which they lost without much fight.

At $100 Vancouver Challenger, Canada

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,149) l Dudi Sela (ISR,130) 26 46

Doubles
[F] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) vs (3) Treat Huey (PHI)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN)

Expecting tough match for Yuki against Dudi Sela but in end Dudi proved too good for Yuki ... In both sets Yuki failed to challenge Dudi but overall really good tournament for Yuki before US open qualifying.

At $50K+H Cordenons Challenger, Italy

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) l (3) Dino Marcan (CRO)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO) 46 36

Purav-Fabrice face surprising loss against Croatian pair in straight sets on thee clay.

At $695K Winston-Salem Open, USA

[Q1] Sanam Singh (IND,304) bt Mischa Zverev (GER,286) 6 3-1 retd.

[Q2] Sanam Singh (IND,304) l (8) Ryan Harrison (USA,126) 63 76(2)

Sanam plays in tough Winston-Salem qualifying ... He won the first match against German Mischa Zverev, when Mischa retired in the second set due to neck strain though Sanam was leading in this match ... In the second round despite fighting performance Sanam lost in two sets against Ryan ... Sanam needs to play futures with mixture of challengers before playing ATP qualifying.

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