Friday, February 12, 2016

Tennis News

At $753K St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, Russia (WTA Premier)

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)/ Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 75 75

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Daria Kasatkina (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 64 61

Tight winning start for Sania-Martina at St. Petersburg tournament ... Next they face Vesnina and young 18 yrs old talented Russian girl Daria Kasatkina but in this match they scored comfortable straight sets win for moving into the semis.

At $10K Tunisia F5 Futures, Hammamet (Clay)

[QF] Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,584) l Pol TOLEDO BAGUE (ESP,652) 16 06

Mostly Sasi was tired after his long match in the last round but this result also confirm that he needs to work on his fitness before moving ahead on the tour

At $10K Egypt F4 Futures, Sharm El Sheikh

[R1] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Issam Haitham TAWEEL (EGY) 62 61
[R1] Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l Marat DEVIATIAROV (UKR) 26 57
[R2] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,507) bt (Q) Cristian CARLI (ITA,1042) 63 75
[QF] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,507) bt (3) Roberto ORTEGA-OLMEDO (ESP,350) 63 64

[SF] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,507) vs Laurent ROCHETTE (FRA,535)

Generally I avoid posting results from Egypt futures as in my view our players go their for cheap ranking points (and I should be ashamed with such thought as they go their and some of them give their heart out in their performance) ... This week Bala scores superb upset win over top-350 Spanish player in straight sets ... In the semis he is facing similar ranked Frenchman.

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