Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Tennis News

At Davis Cup World Group Play-off 2015, New Delhi, India

Czech Republic Team
#48 Jiri Vesely, #87 Lukas Rosol, #149 Adam Pavlasek and Radek Stepanek
Non-playing Captain - Jaroslav Navratil

Czech Republic announce team for their Davis cup tie against India ... WR #6 Tomas Berdych is opted out so Indians having little opening in this match but still very tough match for us considering poor form of Buji and lack of chemistry between Lee and Rohan in the doubles.

At US Open 2015, New York

Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (9) Chan Hao-ching (TPE)/ Chan Yung-jan (TPE) 76(5) 61

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (11) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA)

Juniors
[R2] (SE) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,80) bt Evgeniya Levashova (RUS,28) 62 46 63

[R3] (SE) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,80) vs (2) Dalma Gálfi (HUN,2)

[R1] Jéssica Hinojosa (MEX)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) l Tornado Alicia Black (USA)/ Ingrid Neel (USA) 16 06

Sania-Martina score straight sets win over Taipei pair for entering into the semis ... They were stretched by Taipei pair in the first set to tie-break but after that they dominated the second set ... In the semis they r facing Italian pairing of Sara Errani and Flavia Pennetta.

Karman score another upset win over top-30 Russian girl Evgeniya Levashova in three sets ... After winning the first set comfortably Karman faced challenge from Evgeniya ... Russian girl fought back to win the second set but Karman recovered to win the third set and the match ... In the third round Karman is facing real challenge of 2nd seed Hungarian girl Dalma Gálfi.


At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,199) bt (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,432) 64 63

[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,199) vs Jordan Thompson (AUS,195)

Expected straight sets win by Saki over Bala ... Next he is facing in-form Aussie Jordan Thompson, who won couple of futures title in Thailand and also reached the semis of last week's Bangkok challenger.

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