Saturday, September 26, 2015

Tennis News

At $250K Guangzhou Women's Open, China



Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Shilin Xu (CHN)/ Xiaodi You (CHN) 63 61

Expected dominating win by Sania and Martina in the final against local Chinese pair losing only four games ... This is Sania and Martina's 6th title of 2015 as a pair ... They've now won six of 13 events they've played since joining forces in March - Indian Wells, Miami, Charleston, Wimbledon, the US Open and now Guangzhou ... They're an incredible 42-7 together.

At $2.5M Wuhan Women's Open, China (WTA Premier 5)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bye

In the first round Sania and Martina having bye.

At $937K Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,216) vs Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ,48)

Doubles
[R1] Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR)

RamK receive wild-card for Malaysian open but having tough challenge against top-50 Kazakh player Mikhail Kukushkin.

In the doubles Lee partnering Sharapova's ex-boyfriend big serving Grigor Dimitrov.


At $125K+H Kaohsiung Challenger, Taiwan

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,125) bt (1) Jiri Vesely (CZE,40) 76(2) 60

[F] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,125) vs (2) Hyeon Chung (KOR,73)

Doubles

[SF] (4) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) l Cheng-Peng Hsish (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 26 36
[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) l (2) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 46 46

Yuki score one of best win of his career against WR #40 Jiri Vesely in straight sets ... Last week in the Davis cup he lost against Jiri in straight sets but he manage to take revenge here at Kaohsiung ... In 5th game of the first set Yuki saved 3 break points on his serve from 0-40 but after that both players hold their respective service games to take the set in tie-break ... From tie-break Yuki raised his game few notches and was triple breaks up 5-0 to win tie-break comfortably ... In the second set Yuki was playing smart tennis and used his shots smartly ... He bageled top-40 player in the second set breaking Jiri in 1st, 3rd and 5th games ... Yuki won the match with ace ... In the final he is facing talented young Korean Hyeon Chung ... Other hand Yuki is only one win away from entering first time into top-100 as currently he is #102 in live ranking.

In the doubles our both pairs lose their matches in straight sets.


At $75K Izmir Challenger, Turkey



Doubles Final
(3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 76(5) 46 9-8 retd.

Good to see Divij and Saki lift the title ... Divij needs this title as he is outside of top-150 but with this title our both players will move into top-150 ... Saki will be first time inside top-50 for the doubles ... Saki-Divij faced big pressure on their serve through out the match by their opponents but they stood up to the challenge ... They saved 11 break points before giving break in 10th game of the second set ... In match tie-break opponents took medical break on match point for our pair, 9-8 and conceded the match due to retirement ... Ridiculous to see retirement on the match point.

At $10K India F15 Futures, Madurai

[R1] (4) Sumit NAGAL (IND,602) bt Lakshit SOOD (IND,1085) 76(3) 62
[R2] (4) Sumit NAGAL (IND,602) bt Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1055) 75 36 61
[QF] (4) Sumit NAGAL (IND,602) bt (6) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,596) 64 62
[SF] (4) Sumit NAGAL (IND,602) bt (1) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,364) 67(4) 63 64

Singles Final
(4) Sumit NAGAL (IND,602)bt (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,513) 76(5) 76(4)

Sumit lifts his third ITF futures title of his career and year in hsi third ITF futures final ... He beats big serving Vishnu Vardhan in the final winning both sets in tight tie-breaks ... In the final both players didn't face a single break point on their serve, Vishnu hit 24 aces and Sumit hit 5 ... Also in the semis Sumit scored upset win over Vijay Sundar after his two losses against him ... Last week Sumit lost against Vijay Sundar in F14 futures but this week he managed to turned table on him ... This title win help Sumit to push his ranking first time inside top-500.

At $15K Canada F11 Futures, Ontario

[SF] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,329) bt (7) Jared HILTZIK (USA,616) 76(3) 62

[F] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,329) vs (1) Frank DANCEVIC (CAN,220)

Sanam scores expected straight sets win over Hiltzik ... Again in the final he is facing Frank Dancevic ... Dancevic is aiming for the fourth title in a row.

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