Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Tennis News

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

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Chen Liang (CHN)/ Shuai Peng (CHN) 62 63

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Raluca Olaru (ROU)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)

Sania-Martina equal all-time 28 matches winning streak with straight sets win over Chinese opponents ... In the semis they r facing Romanian-Kazakh pair for place in the final and break the record.

At Australian Open 2016, Melbourne

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) l Jurgen Zopp (EST,164) 62 16 46
[Q1] Saketh Myneni (IND,168) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,206) 64 61

[Q2] Saketh Myneni (IND,168) vs Lorenzo Giustino (ITA,261)

Saki scores comfortable straight sets win over RamK showing not giving wild-card at Chennai open by organizers was bad decision ... This match dominated big serving by both players but Saki was more consistent ... At 3-all match were stopped due to heat wave but after resuming Saki took control on the match ... RamK struggled with finding his rhythm and Saki surprised him with regularly approaching the net ... He came well prepared for the match as he was attacking RamK's backhand ... After winning the first set Saki breezed through the second for the win ... In the second qualifying round he is facing Italian Lorenzo Giustino, who score upset win over 112th ranked Lukas Lacko.

Buji again miss chance of finishing the match after winning the first set ... He started well winning first 4 games to lead 4-0 and kept that advantage for winning the set ... But after that Buji failed to keep same intensity ... From 1-all he lost five games in a row in that he lost his service games at 4th and 6th games for losing the second set ... In the final set Zopp broke Buji in 5th game to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning this match.


At $50K+H Bangkok II Challenger, Thailand

[R1] Sanam Singh (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) l (4) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 26 67(7)
[R1] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK) 64 16 10-6

[QF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Mark Vervoort (NED)

Mahesh having winning start with Purav in Bangkok challenger ... They beat 2nd seed Demoliner and Zelenay in super tie-break ... Next they r facing big serving Serb-Dutch pair.

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

[R2] Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) bt (WC) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND) 62 57 61
[R2] (Q) Riya BHATIA (IND) l (7) Lou BROULEAU (FRA) 26 36
[R2] (Q) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND) bt Rishika SUNKARA (IND) 64 62
[R2] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt Snehadevi S REDDY (IND) 60 76(6)

Pranjala shows her first round win against top-300 opponent wasn't fluke with straight sets win over Rishika ... Prerna and Ankita also join her in quarter finals with win over their Indian opponents.

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