Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Tennis News

At $$753K Apia International Sydney, Australia (WTA Premier)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Arina Rodionova (AUS) 62 63

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Chen Liang (CHN)/ Shuai Peng (CHN)

Sania-Martina start with comfortable win over Rodionova sis ... Next they r facing tricky match against former Chinese doubles WR #1 Shuai Peng and her partner for record equaling 28 matches winning streak.

At $405K Apia International Sydney, Australia

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Denis Istomin (UZB)/ Henri Kontinen (FIN) 67(2) 63 10-8

Rohan-Florin score hard fought comeback win over Uzbek-Finnish pair ... After losing the first set in tie-break our pair fought back to win the second ... They prevail in tight super tie-break.

At Australian Open 2016, Melbourne

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) vs Jurgen Zopp (EST,164)
[Q1] Saketh Myneni (IND,168) vs Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,206)

Really cruel draw for our players as Saki and RamK r facing each other in the first qualifying round ... Buji is facing decent opponent but our players having big battle for qualifying for main-draw.

At $50K+H Bangkok II Challenger, Thailand

[R1] (6) Sanam Singh (IND,278) l Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO,310) 26 61 46

This was tricky first match of the season for Sanam after more than two months break and that prove right ... After losing the first set Sanam fought back for winning the second in dominated fashion ... But he failed to keep momentum in the final and lost the match.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Aurangabad, India

[R1] (Q) Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND) l Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS) 67(6) 26
[R1] Sowjanya BAVISETTI (IND) l (8) Ching-Wen HSU (TPE) 26 64 26
[R1] Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) bt (3) Ayaka OKUNO (JPN) 63 36 64
[R1] (WC) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND) bt (Q) Sai Samhitha CHAMARTHI (IND) 36 63 63
[R1] (Q) Soha SADIQ (IND) l Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS) 36 36
[R1] (Q) Riya BHATIA (IND) bt (WC) Sri Vaishnavi PEDDI REDDY (IND) 76(2) 61
[R1] Rishika SUNKARA (IND) bt (WC) Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) 61 62
[R1] (Q) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND) bt (4) Melanie KLAFFNER (AUT) 67(5) 62 3-1 retd.
[R1] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (Q) Amrita MUKHERJEE (IND) 63 62
[R1] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND) bt (WC) Natasha PALHA (IND) 62 62
[R1] (Q) Sneha PADAMATA (IND) l Pei-Chi LEE (TPE) 46 06
[R1] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) l (2) Tadeja MAJERIC (SLO) 16 26

What a terrific wins by Prerna and Pranjala over respective top-300 opponents ... Superb performance by these young girls.

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