Friday, January 15, 2016

Tennis News

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



Doubles
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (3) Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 16 75 10-5

Sania and Martina wins another title in close match against talented French pair ... Also Martina is projected to join Sania as co-World No.1 on the WTA Doubles Rankings ... This will be Martina's first time at No.1 since the Indian Wells in 2000.

After losing the first set easily Sania and Martina were 2-5 down in the second set ... After that they made amazing comeback for winning this match.


At $405K Apia International Sydney, Australia

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA)/ Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 76(8) 64

[F] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Jamie Murray (GBR) / Bruno Soares (BRA)

Rohan-Florin r in the final after beating South American pair in closely fought match ... In the final they r facing British-Brazilian pair for the title.

At Australian Open 2016, Melbourne

[Q2] Saketh Myneni (IND,168) bt Lorenzo Giustino (ITA,261) 61 76(7)

[Q3] Saketh Myneni (IND,168) vs (22) Mirza Basic (BIH,137)

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,95) vs (6) Tomas Berdych (CZE,6)

Saki is in the final qualifying round of Australian open with straight sets win over his Italian opponent ... Saki was cruising till one and half set with his big serving and powerful ground-strokes ... Saki won the first set comfortably with double break ... In the second set also Saki was up with double break at 3-0 but then suddenly unforced errors creep in his game from 4th game when he was serving ... Suddenly Saki lost his serve in 4th and 6th games to bring the set on serve, 3-all ... After that Saki and Lorenzo hold their respective service game for taking the set in tie-break ... In tie-break Saki lost points on his serve on 2nd and 3rd points and Saki was 0-4 down ... Then Saki won next four points to make it 4-all ... At 5-all Saki lost point on his serve for match point down 5-6 but Saki again re-take mini-break for 6-all and then again took mini-break for 7-6 ... This time Lorenzo saved a match point, 7-all ... At 8-7 Saki won the point on Lorenzo's serve for excellent win ... Superbly played tie-break ... Next he is facing 22nd rank Mirza Basic ... Good opportunity for qualifying for Australian open.

Yuki is attracting top players like magnet for Australian open main-draw ... Last year he faced Andy Murray and this time Tomas Berdych ... With his current struggle with fitness and lack of match practice gives him very less chance against Berdych.


At $50K+H Bangkok II Challenger, Thailand

[SF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (3) Gero Kretschmer (GER)/ Alexander Satschko (GER) 57 36

Mahesh-Purav lose their match in straight sets against 3rd seed German pair.

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

[SF] (Q) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1118) l (2) Tadeja MAJERIC (SLO,269) 36 61 46

Another fighting performance against top-300 player in her loss by Pranjala ... Hoping for better outing for her at junior Australian open.

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