Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Tennis News

At US Open 2015, New York

Doubles
[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Nicholas Monroe (USA) 63 64

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Santiago González (MEX)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (4) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Claire Liu (USA)/ Taylor Harry Fritz (USA) 62 62

Comfortable winning start for Rohan-Florin against American pair ... Now doubles draw is open as top-seed Bryans and 2nd seed Dodig-Melo lose their first round matches ... Hopefully Indian players take advantage of it with their respective partners.

In MXD, American wild-card pair fail to challenge Lee and Martina in the first round.


At $50K Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[R2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,152) bt (Q) Andrew Whittington (AUS,484) 75 4-2 retd.
[R2] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,427) vs Benjamin Mitchell (AUS,353) 76(4) 26 36

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,152) vs (6) Ti Chen (TPE,196)

Doubles
[R1] James Cluskey (IRL)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l Dane Propoggia (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) 46 67(9)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) l Yan Bai (CHN)/ Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) 46 36

Buji is in the quarters as his Aussie opponent retired in the second set ... In the first set Buji was stretched by Aussie qualifier Andrew Whittington but Buji prevailed and when he was break up in the second set Andrew retired due to heat stroke ... In the quarters he is facing Ti Chen.

Bala lose in three sets despite starting with winning first set ... In the first set Bala was 2-4 down and he made comeback to win the set in tie-break but after that it was all Benjamin's show.

In the doubles Bala-Divij withdrew but our other two pairs lose their matches in the first round.
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At $15K Canada F8 Futures, Calgary

[R1] (6) Sanam SINGH (IND,312) bt Luis PATINO (MEX,707) 75 64

[R2] (6) Sanam SINGH (IND,312) vs (Q) Raleigh SMITH (USA,1172)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Kevin KING (USA)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Jared HILTZIK (USA)/ Aleksandar VUKIC (AUS) 62 62

[QF] (1) Kevin KING (USA)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) l Damon GOOCH (RSA)/ Wil SPENCER (USA) 61 67(4) 8-10

This week Sanma is playing in Canadian futures ... He starts with straight sets win in the singles but lose in the doubles quarter final as top-seed with Kevin King.

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