Saturday, January 09, 2016

Tennis News

At $1M Brisbane International, Australia (WTA Premier)



Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (WC) Angelique Kerber (GER)/ Andrea Petkovic (GER) 75 61

Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza won their 10th WTA doubles title together in Brisbane and have now won 26 matches in a row - the longest doubles win streak in 22 years ... Now they r shy of 3 wins from all-time record by Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva, who won 28 matches in a row together in 1994.

In the final German pair was leading 4-2 at one time but after that Sania-Martina responded strongly after winning off 11 of the last 13 games of the match for straight sets win.


At $425,535 Chennai Open, India

[SF] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) 57 67(4)

Indian challenge get over with Buji and Jeevan's loss in the doubles ... After losing the first set Buji-Jeevan were early break down at 2-3 when Buji lost his serve ... Our pair fought back to take the set in tie-break ... But Krajicek-Paire's experience helped them for completing the victory.

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

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

Sania-Martina r facing Rodionova sis in the first round of Sydney tournament.

At $405K Apia International Sydney, Australia

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Denis Istomin (UZB)/ Henri Kontinen (FIN)

Rohan is starting 2016 season from Sydney tournament.

At $50K+H Bangkok II Challenger, Thailand

[Q1] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,378) bt Jui Chen Hung (TPE,601) 64 62
[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,552) l (6) Cheong-Eui Kim (KOR,379) 63 67(6) 16

[Q2] (5) Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,378) l Yuva Kibi (JPN,664) 57 16

[R1] (6) Sanam Singh (IND,278) vs Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO,310)

Doubles Final
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) vs (4) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) [R1] Frantisek Cermak (CZE))/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Kittipong Wachiramanowong (THA)
[R1] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (2) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK)

Not a great start of the year 201 for VSP ... Sanam having decent draw and facing similar ranked opponent in the first round.

In the doubles solid draw as good pairing r participating ... Interesting to see Mahesh's comeback as here he is playing with Purav.

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