Saturday, January 23, 2016

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2016, Melbourne

Doubles
[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/ Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) 62 63

[R3] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS)/ Nick Kyrgios (AUS) 75 61

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)

Juniors
[R1] (10) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,18) bt Mayuka Aikawa (JPN,56) 64 57 61
[R1] Karman Thandi (IND,40) bt (LL) Olivia Gadecki (AUS,970) 63 64

[R2] Karman Thandi (IND,40) vs Panna Udvardy (HUN,63)
[R2] (10) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,18) vs Mira Antonitsch (AUT,81)

[R1] (5) Karman Thandi (IND)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) vs Petra Hule (AUS)/ Selina Turulja (AUS)
[R1] Zhuoma Ni Ma (CHN)/ Mihika Yadav (IND) vs (2) Anna Kalinskaya (RUS)/ Tereza Mihalikova (SVK)

Comfortable win for Sania and Martina against Ukrainian pair ... Next they r facing veteran experienced players Vinci and Kuznetsova, can be tricky one.

In mixed doubles also winning start for Sania with Ivan Dodig ... They scored straight sets win over Aussie pair ... Next they r facing pairing of Aisam and Shvedova.

Lucky break for Karman as Hon withdrew and Karman plays against local lucky loser player Gadecki and she start with comfortable win ... Next she is facing Hungarian girl Udvardy.
Pranjala also starts with win but her Japanese opponent stretched her to three sets ... Next she is facing Austrian girl.

Junior doubles draw is out ... Good to see Pranjala and Karman r playing together, they r fifth seed.


At $75K Manila Challenger, Philippines

[SF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Maximilian Neuchrist (AUT) l (2) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) 36 76(8) 7-10

After losing the first set Divij and Maximillan made excellent comeback for winning tight tie-break but they failed to keep momentum in match tie-break ... Still good outng for Divij with his partner in Manila challenger.

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