Thursday, October 29, 2015

Tennis News

At € 537K Valencia Open 2015, Spain

[QF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukasz Kubot (POL) l Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Andre Sa (BRA) 67(6) 46

Lee-Kubot lose their quarter final match in straight sets against Guccione and Sa.

At $50K Pune Challenger, India

[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,105) bt Ti Chen (TPE,199) 64 76(4)
[QF] Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,376) l Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,100) 67(8) 67(5)

[SF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,105) vs (4) James Ward (GBR,143)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (4) Gerard Granollers (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) 63 46 10-12
[SF] (3) Maximillan Neuchrist (AUT)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) 46 75 12-10

[F] (3) Maximillan Neuchrist (AUT)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (4) Gerard Granollers (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)

After exchanging early breaks both players hold their respective service games till 8th game ... Yuki took crucial break in 9th game and then hold his serve for winning first set ... In second set Yuki broke Ti Chen in 7th game to lead 5-3 but while serving ffor the match at 5-4 he failed to hold, 5-all ... In 11th game Yuki missed 3 break points from 0-40 ... Yuki hold his serve for taking this set in tie-break ... In tie-break after 4-3 Yuki took minni-break and kept that advantage for winning the match ... Yuki was looking sluggish as he struggled with overall game ... In the semis he is facing last week's winner James Ward.

Heartening performance by Vijay Sundar in his loss against top-100 Russian player Donskoy ... Vijay Sundar got broken in 1st game to down 0-2 but he broke back Donskoy in 4th game for bringing this set back on serve ... After taking set in tie-break VSP saved 3 set points before losing long tie-break ... In the second set both players had break points which they failed to convert ... In tie-break again Donskoy proved better of Vijay Sundar.

In the doubles semis Divij-Maximillan score hard fought win over in-form pair Saki-Sanam ... After losing first they made huge comeback for winning tight second set ... In match tie-break they completed win in extra points after saving match point.

Other hand top-seed Purav-Alexander lose their match in extra points of match tie-break after winning first set ... In the final Divij-Maximillan r facing to Spanish pair.


At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, El Kantaoui, Tunisia

[R1] Kyra SHROFF (IND,943) bt (7) Chiraz BECHRI (TUN,675) 61 64
[R2] Kyra SHROFF (IND,943) bt Fiona CODINO (FRA,919) 62 63

[QF] Kyra SHROFF (IND,943) vs Kassandra DAVESNE (FRA,1034)

Kyra Shroff started with upset win over top-700 local girl in straight sets ... In second round she beats similar ranked French girl in straight sets ... In the quarters she is facing 16 yrs old French girl Kassandra Davesne, who scored upset win over top-seed in first round ... So this can be tricky match for Kyra.

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