Thursday, January 14, 2016

Tennis News

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

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Raluca Olaru (ROU)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 46 63 10-8

Sania-Martina better Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva's 28 matches winning streak after winning their 29th match ... It is also the biggest winning streak in international tennis for the last 22 years ... Also this is the longest winning streak for "currently active players" who are still playing the game of tennis professionally ... I think this is third best winning streak in all-time records ... In 1990 Jana Novotna and Helena Sukova won 44 consecutive matches and before that Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver had an even bigger winning streak ... Still creditable achievement by Sania and Martina.

In this match our pair was a set down before making comeback ... In super tie-break also they were stretched by their opponents.


At $405K Apia International Sydney, Australia

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Sam Groth (AUS)/ John Peers (AUS) 62 64

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Leonardo Mayer (ARG)

Rohan-Florin score comfortable win over Aussie pair in the quarters ... In the semis they r facing South American pair.

At $50K+H Bangkok II Challenger, Thailand

[QF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Mark Vervoort (NED) 26 61 10-5

[SF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Gero Kretschmer (GER)/ Alexander Satschko (GER)

Mahesh-Purav continue with winning run as they beat big serving Bozo and Vervoort ... After losing the first set easily our pair made strong comeback for winning next two ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed German pair.

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

[QF] Prerna BHAMBRI (IND) l Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS) 67(3) 36
[QF] (Q) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND) bt (7) Lou BROULEAU (FRA) 64 46 62
[QF] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND) l (2) Tadeja MAJERIC (SLO) 67(5) 64 26

[SF] (Q) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND) vs (2) Tadeja MAJERIC (SLO)

Pranjala's giant killing continues as she scores another upset win over top-350 French girl ... Next she is facing tough match against 2nd seed, who beats Ankita in three sets.

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