Monday, October 26, 2015

Tennis News

At $7M BNP Paribas WTA Finals 2015, Singapore

Red Group
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (6) Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA)
(7) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Lucie Hradeckova (CZE) bt (4) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 62 61

Sania-Martina start with straight sets win over American pair ... In their group 7th seed Czech pair score upset win over 4th seed Babos-Mladenovic.

At €2.0M Swiss Indoors 2015, Basel, Switzerland

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 64 16 8-10

Another first round loss for Rohan-Florin but these two weeks matches give chance for Florin for improving his match fitness ... Reason is Rohan-Florin require good performance in oncoming Paris Masters for ATP World Tour Finals qualification.

At $50K Pune Challenger, India

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,105) bt (WC) Anvit Bendre (IND,1247) 63 63
[R1] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,743) bt (Q) Temur Ismailov (UZB,448) 64 26 76(6)
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,516) bt Egor Gerasimov (BLR,309) 64 75
[R1] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,486) bt (Q) Purav Raja (IND,1759) 64 64
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,251) bt Gerad Granollers (ESP,274) 76(6) 64

[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,105) vs Nikola Milojevic (SRB,319)
[R2] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,743) vs Ti Chen (TPE,199)

Doubles
[R1] Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) l (4) Gerard Granollers (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 63 67(5) 5-10
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Anvit Bendre (IND)/ Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND) 76(1) 64

[QF] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (4) Gerard Granollers (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)

Really good start for Indian players as all five matches in which Indian players play they all win by our players ... Yuki starts with expected comfortable win over Anvit ... I was thinking Sumit's match will be tough but he played solid tennis to beat Purav despite struggling with his first serve.

Also good win for RamK against similar ranked opponent Spanish Granollers ... In first set RamK was double break down at 1-5 ... RamK saved a set point on his serve in 7th game before making remarkable comeback ... RamK won next five games for 6-5 and in tie-break saved another set point before converting his first set point ... In second set RamK won with single break.

Another first round win by Prajnesh against fellow but higher ranked Uzbek qualifier ... After winning first set Prajnesh lost second set cheaply ... In decider both players were holding their respective service games ... Prajnesh took crucial break in 11th game but while serving for the match Prajnesh failed to hold his serve ... Prajnesh kept fighting for winning tight tie-break.

For me best win of the day from Vishnu ... After longtime I m seeing Vishnu is winning against top-300 type player ... Vishnu scored straight sets win over Gerasimov with single break in both sets.

In the doubles Sood twins lose their match after winning first set ... Sumit-Vishnu start with straight sets win.


At $50K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2015, Toronto, Canada

[Q3] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,1029) l Isabelle BOULAIS (CAN,UNR) 75 26 36

Karman lose her match against 15 yrs old Isabelle after winning first set ... In first set Karman was 2-5 down but she saved multiple set points before making comeback to win this set ... Isabelle dominated second set and kept that momentum for winning third.

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