Friday, February 05, 2016

Tennis News

At Fed Cup Asia / Oceania Group I, Hua Hin, Thailand

Pool A

India bt Uzbekistan 3-0

[S1] Prerna Bhambri (IND,399) bt Sabina Sharipova (UZB,239) 61 61
[S2] Ankita Raina (IND,307) bt Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,217) 61 60
[D] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ankita Raina (IND) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Arina Folts (UZB) 62 60

Indian girls perform above their ranking to score thumping win over favorite Uzbek team ... Prerna gave terrific start beating Sharipova comfortably losing only 2 games ... Ankita kept her good performance and defeated top-225 Abduraimova losing a single game ... In the doubles Sania partnered Ankita and they also scored win losing only two games ... With this win we secure our place of remaining in Group I as we r avoided relegation play-off ... Now for 5th place we r playing against Kazakhstan, who r having 3 top-100 girls in their team with top-5 doubles player Shvedova.

At € 520K Open Sud De France, Montpellier, France

[QF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) bt (1) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 76(2) 62

[SF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) vs (WC) Alexander Zverev (GER)/ Mischa Zverev (GER)

Mahesh and Jonathan score upset win over top-seed Polish pair in straight sets ... After winning the first set in tie-break Mahesh and Jonathan dominated the second set ... In the semis they r facing German Zverev brothers.

At $75K Launceston Challenger, Australia

[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,175) bt Benjamin Mitchell (AUS,233) 64 62

[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,175) vs (WC) Blake Mott (AUS,721)

Saki scores confident win over his top-250 Aussie opponent Benjamin Mitchell ... In previous two rounds he stretched to three sets by his lowly ranked opponents so this win was confident boosting ... In the semis he is facing Aussie giant-killer Blake Mott for place in the final.

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