Monday, September 07, 2015

Tennis News

At US Open 2015, New York

Doubles
[R3] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt (9) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 67(4) 64 63

[QF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Dominic Inglot (GBR)/ Robert Lindstedt (SWE)

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (4) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Simona Halep (ROU)/ Horia Tecău (ROU) w/o
[QF] (2) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Henri Kontinen (FIN) 76 (9) 57 13-11

[SF] (2) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (4) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND)

Juniors
[R1] (15) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,19) l (Q) Valentini Grammatikopoulou (GRE,1090) 67(1) 36
[R1] (SE) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,80) bt (16) Katharina Hobgarski (GER,20) 63 76(3)

[R1] Eleni Christofi (GRE)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) l Kimberly Birrell (AUS)/ Maddison Inglis (AUS) 36 57

[R2] (SE) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,80) vs Evgeniya Levashova (RUS,28)

Karman score huge upset win over JR# 20 and a 18 year old German who reached French open QF and is also ranked around top-500 in WTA singles rankings ... Though Katharina Hobgarski is clay court specialist still this is special win for Karman on her first junior grand slam match ... After winning the first set Karman was break down at 0-2 and then won five games in a row to lead 5-2 ... And she served two times for the match at 5-2 and then 5-4 but both time failed to hold ... In tie-break Karman recovered and completes the win ... Next she is facing junior top-30 and WTA top-900 Russian player Evgeniya Levashova ... In the doubles Karman with her partner Christofi lose in the first round against Aussie pair.

Pranjala lose in straight sets against WTA WR #438 Grammatikopoulou in straight sets ... This was tough match for Pranjala as Grammatikopoulou already wins 5 ITF titles on the tour ... Pranjala fought hard in the first set but Grammatikopoulou won tie-break comfortably ... In the second set Grammatikopoulou didn't gave much chance to Pranjala.

Rohan-Florin complete comeback win over Nestor and Roger-Vasselin ... After losing the first set in tie-break they fought back to win next two for entering into the quarters.

Lee-Martina receive another walkover, this time from Romanian pair for entering into the semis ... In the semis they r facing Rohan-Chan. who score hard fought win against Kontinen-Hsieh ... Rohan-Chan won the first set in extra points of tie-break but Kontinen-Hsieh won the second set ... Again in match tie-break both pairs were neck to neck in that Rohan-Chan prevailed in 24 points long match tie-break.


At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[Q3] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,432) bt Finn Tearney (NZL,574) 75 64

[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,145) bt (WC) Zhizhen Zhang (CHN,593) 62 62
[R1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,152) l Nicolas Barrientos (COL,258) 46 62 46
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,199) vs (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,432)

[R2] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,145) vs Ze Zhang (CHN,217)

Doubles
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Zhe Li (CHN)/ Hiroki Moriya (JPN) 26 62 10-6

[QF] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Peter Gojowczyk (GER)/ Jurgen Zopp (EST)

Bala qualify for the main-draw with straight sets win but facing compatriot Saki in the first round ... Yuki starts with comfortable win against 18 yrs old Chinese Zhizhen Zhang ... In the both sets Yuki won five games in a row from 1-2.

Buji lose against Colombian opponent in three sets as I was worrying about Buji's recent patchy performance ... After losing the first set Buji made strong comeback but again failed to keep momentum in the third ... Bad preparation before Davis cup tie.

In the doubles Saki and Bala start with good comeback victory against Chinese-Japanese pair after losing the first set.

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