Friday, September 25, 2015

Tennis News

At $250K Guangzhou Women's Open, China

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bye
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU) 62 63

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Julia Glushko (ISR)/ Rebecca Peterson (SWE) 63 64

[F] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Shilin Xu (CHN)/ Xiaodi You (CHN)

Sania-Martina r in the final of Guangzhou open with straight sets win ... This is Sania-Martina's first tournament after US open triumph ... In the final they r facing unseeded Chinese pair, who scored upset win over 2nd and 3rd seed pairs en-route to the final.

At $125K+H Kaohsiung Challenger, Taiwan

[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,125) bt Jimmy Wang (TPE,283) 64 62

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,125) vs (1) Jiri Vesely (CZE,40)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) bt Nicolas Barrientos (COL)/ Marco Trungelliti (ARG) w/o
[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) 60 57 10-7

[SF] (4) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) vs Cheng-Peng Hsish (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)
[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) vs (2) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Yuki scores impressive straight sets win over Jimmy for entering into the semi-final ... In the first set Yuki was down early break, 0-3 ... After that he made strong comeback and won next five games in a row breaking Jimmy in 5th and 7th games to lead 5-3 ... Yuki kept break advantage for winning the set ... In the second set Yuki broke Jimmy in 2nd and 4th games to take 4-0 lead and after that hold that lead for comfortable win ... In the semis he is facing top-40 Czech player Jiri Vesely ... Against the same player Yuki lost last week in Davis cup.

In the doubles also Yuki is in the semis with his partner Yi ... After bagelled opponents on the first set Yuki-Yi lost the second set but they recovered well to win the match tie-break ... Buji-Jeevan receive walkover from their South American opponents.


At $75K Izmir Challenger, Turkey

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,218) l (4) Lukas Lacko (SVK,112) 36 57

Doubles
[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Gero Kretschmer (GER)/ Alexander Satschko (GER) 63 36 11-9

[F] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (4) Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR)

RamK gives fighting performance in his loss against Lacko ... In this match RamK started tentatively to get broken in 1st game of the match ... Lacko kept advantage and again broke Ramk when he was serving for staying in the set in 9th game for winning this set ... In the second set RamK raised his game and matched with his top-100 caliber opponent despite struggling with his backhand ... In 12th game RamK saved a match point before losing to 2nd match point ... Overall pleasing performance in the second from RamK.

Divij-Saki score upset win over top-seed German pair, who r in top-100 doubles rankings, in very tight match tie-break ... After winning the first set our pair lost the second set but they fought hard to recover for winning match tie-break in extra points ... In the final they r facing 4th seed Jaziri and Molchanov.


At $15K Canada F11 Futures, Ontario

[QF] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,329) bt (WC) Alejandro TABILO (CAN,1985)

[SF] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,329) vs (7) Jared HILTZIK (USA,616)

Expected win for Sanam against local wild-card player Tabilo ... Next he is facing 7th seed American Hiltzik.

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