Sunday, February 21, 2016

Tennis News

At $577K Delray Beach Open 2016, Florida, USA

[SF] Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 26 36

Bryans prove too strong for pairing of Lee and Chady ... Still decent performance for Lee considering couple of wins in this tournament.

At $2.67M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,101) vs Lukas Rosol (CZE,46)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA)
[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE)

Yuki manages to get wild-card at Dubai and having decent draw as he is facing Rosol.

In the doubles Mahesh is playing with Aisam and facing tricky Italian pair in the first round ... Rohan-Florin r facing Nestor-Stepanek.


At $1.5M Abierto Mexicano Telcel 2016, Acapulco, Mexico

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,186) l (7) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP,158) 16 57

These days expexcted result, another loss for Buji.

At $50K Delhi Challenger, India

[SF] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND,166) bt (2) Kimmer Koppejans (BEL,125) 63 62

[F] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND,166) vs (3) Stephane Robert (FRA,161)

Doubles Final
Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)bt (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) 63 46 10-5

What a win by Saki against top-125 Belgian Kimmer Koppejans ... Saki scored dominating win over Koppejans losing only five games ... In the final he is facing 3rd seed Frenchman Stephane Robert.

In the doubles Saki-Sanam lose their match against Mahesh and Yuki in match tie-break ... After winning the first set Yuki and Mahesh lost the second set ... But they recovered in match tie-break for winning it comfortably ... So this is first title for Mahesh in year 2016.

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